Thursday, February 15, 2007

Origami


Woah. Just viewed the work of the 'masters' of origami on Joseph Wu's website (click on the gallery tab) and was blown away.

Apparently, origami has exploded in the last few years, as mathematicians and physicists have taken interest in the ancient Japanese art form. Here's a before and after of a silverfish designed by physicist Robert Lang.


And if you really want to be impressed, here's an entertaining video of a person taking 10 hours and making 1361 folds to create a phoenix.

2 comments:

lily1024 said...

See, origami is totally rad. You should show everyone the Chou Christmas Centipede. I think that's way more impressive than the silverfish....amateur!

Derrick said...

Oh yes. I'm actually teaching origami on Friday. Do we have pics of that?