Nature's Origami
March 23rd, 2005 | Filed under: Biology, Design, Fabrication Tech, Mathematics | 1 Comment »
Dr. Koryo Miura’s extremely efficient folding pattern, the Miura-Ori, has been used widely for applications in need of folding with efficiency. A recent report from Dr. Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan of Harvard shows it’s something nature has been doing all along.
via NY Times
Thanks, Neil.
Thanks for pointing this article out. Mahadevan (with colleagues) published some interesting research last year on the mathematics of drapes and folding in fabric. I collected the various links to abstracts and submitted papers here: http://www.christopherdgray.co.uk/archives/2004_02_01_archive.html#107618266046804466
I was more interested in how designers might harness such theories in the design of their own folding planes, whether architectural or landscape and wrote a little article as a result: http://www.christopherdgray.co.uk/2004/05/folding-land.html
Keep up the interesting posts!