Back in 1999, Erik Demaine was a PhD student who created an algorithm that determined the folding patterns necessary to turn a piece of paper into any 3D shape. However, the algorithm was far from ...

BROCKTON - It’s no surprise that there are origami fanatics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Paper folding is, after all, an exercise in engineering, and origami has practical ...

If you’ve ever attempted to construct a paper football or put together one of those fortune tellers, then you know manipulating paper into unnatural shapes is a tough task. But for members of MIT’s ...

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