Thu 27 Jul 2006
I just read an incredible article in Discover magazine about the cutting edge of origami. Those crazy kids are doing some astounding things with a single piece of uncut paper!
The focus of the Discover article is Robert Lang who created a computer program that gives you a diagram of all the folds you need to make a shape, but doesn’t give you the folding order. You have to figure that out for yourself, and it can take months for the really complex ones. See more here.
One of the people mentioned in the article is a japanese dude named Satoshi Kamiya, who is a true prodigy. It’s really unbelievable the stuff he does considering that in the 1980s just making legs was a big deal, and this guy does it all USING ONLY HIS MIND! Check out his site, but keep in mind it’s all in japanese so will have to flail around blindly a bit. The link marked 2004/10/19 is the dragon he’s most famous for.
Wow.. amazing. he is something, isn’t he? I can barely make a paper crane with origami. People are crazy about beetles and I remembered my brother had several when we were younger. There are so many bugs, maybe too many in Japan. Some of them are really mean and bite me and suck my blood out..sad..