A tantrum in a toy store was Kim Crane’s introduction to the gentle art of Japanese paper folding. When her mother refused to ...

There’s a paper about how it works available, too. The Thermorph process uses commercially-available 3D printers, but requires special software. You might wonder why you would want to fold ...

This novel fabrication process makes lightweight, expandable, 3D structures. Engineers at The Georgia Institute of Technology have merged the ancient art of folding paper, origami, with 3D ...

Papercraft projects tend to be based on 3D models from video games or custom ... and paste the whole mess together. Now, thanks to Paper-kit.com, if you've got a big head – or simply want ...

A centuries-old Japanese art is set to revolutionize the manufacturing industry with origami printing ... with folded paper as their canvas. There was no such thing as 3D imaging software in ...

Zhao and his co-workers used a 3D printing technique to fabricate structures comprised of combinations of individual origami units, without the need for any additional assembly step. The analogous ...

The 3D structure of origami-inspired designs comes from mountain and valley fold lines in a flat material. Origami designs classically assume a material of zero thickness. Paper is fine ...

To do that, the team 3D printed a ceramic structure based on the Miura-ori origami pattern -- which is a way to fold something flat, like paper, so it takes up less space but stays flat overall ...