Robert Lang's fascination with origami began as a child after he was given a book showing how to fold and crease a sheet of paper to create three-dimensional figures. He loved reading and following… ...

Physicist Robert Lang has taken the ancient art of origami to new dimensions. Physicist Robert Lang has ... then someone else would have wings with spots," Lang recalls. "I worked a lot on insects ...

Courtesy Robert Lang. By the 90s, a larger community of scientists and engineers started noticing Lang’s work—and requesting his help. As one of his first origami consulting jobs, Lang worked at the ...

Lang’s largest origami sculpture is a Pteranodon with a 14-foot wingspan on permanent display at the Redpath Museum, McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Courtesy of Robert Lang How his hobby ...

Eventually in 2001, Lang quit his science day jobs and committed to origami full time. The ancient art still requires artists to fashion their creations out of a single, square piece of paper ...

But for Robert Lang, his day job cramped his passionate hobby. In 2001, he made the full switch over to origami. Take one look at his amazing (original!) designs , and you’ll understand why Lang ...

Origami artist and physicist Robert J. Lang explains origami in 11 levels of difficulty. From a simple, traditional cicada to an extremely intricate one, watch how Robert J. Lang demonstrates and ...

Now meet Robert Lang. When he folds paper, he doesn't just make objects, ... Lang used his origami skills to figure out how to fold that giant lens to fit inside a rocket.

Some of his work has helped pioneer new ways of applying origami principles to complex real-world engineering problems. Twenty five years ago, physicist Robert Lang worked at NASA, where he ...