“Origami（折纸）”已成为一个世界通用词汇。现在，日本在国内外展开一系列尝试，欲将这一传统手工艺技术应用到产业中去。折纸的构思和技法正逐步被广泛应用于航天开发、时尚、甚至是人造血管的制造。 提起“折纸”，人们就会联想到日本传统文化，用 ...

Start your origami journey with simple designs like cranes or boats. These basic models require fewer steps, making it easier for beginners to focus on each fold. By mastering simple shapes first, ...

We independently review everything we recommend. When you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Learn more› By Kase Wickman All you need to practice one of the oldest art forms in the world ...

It’s an ancient form of art, but now origami is providing modern solutions in the fields of space, engineering, mathematics and medicine. For one Canadian aerospace engineer, origami and its ability ...

A cacophony of barking alerts me to the cardboard box delivered to my front door. Packed inside is a single sheet of white corrugated plastic folded into what looks like a large suitcase. My canine ...

An origami-inspired tent had to be flexible enough to inflate, but sturdy enough to withstand the elements. (Image courtesy of Benjamin Gorissen/David Melancon/Harvard SEAS) Applied mathematics ...

Origami might seem like an unlikely source of inspiration for scientists and engineers, yet the centuries-old Japanese art of paper folding is behind all sorts of new innovations. That’s because ...

WIRED has challenged origami artist and physicist Robert J. Lang to explain origami to 5 different people; a child, teen, a college student, a grad student and an expert. but I want to tell you a ...

"Part of the challenge of folding is to capture the feeling I get when I look at real animals," says Robert Lang. (Above, his 5-inch Tree Frog, opus 280.) Robert J. Lang Lang first folded his Black ...

Similarly to the artistic technique of folding paper into ornate shapes, DNA origami is a self-assembling technique of precisely folding single-stranded DNA scaffolds into well-defined nanostructures.