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January 2011 Blog Posts (2)

Industrial Origami car concepts

Some interesting investigations into structural and aesthetic use of straight and curved folding in a commercial context (cars appear around the 20 minute mark):

http://www.industrialorigami.com/solutions/transportation_news.cfm

Added by Gregory Epps on January 24, 2011 at 16:24 — No Comments

K-Dron

I have many books about geometric construction.

A few years ago in one of them, I found a paragraph about the K-dron patented by Kapitza. I studied the form and created a 2-D pattern for it.

Then I printed a bunch of them on construction paper. I asked my students to build them. We glued the best ones next to each other on a piece of cardboard.Then depending on the angle of a direct light we could see rhombuses or triangles or parallelograms. It was quite intriguing.…

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Added by Emmanuel Coup de Fréjac on January 16, 2011 at 18:04 — No Comments