Start your origami journey with simple designs like cranes or boats. These basic models require fewer steps, making it easier for beginners to focus on each fold. By mastering simple shapes first, ...

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The art of origami usually requires dextrous fingers to turn a flat sheet into an intricate 3D shape. Now it’s got considerably easier, thanks to a material that can fold up on its own. Each foil was ...

A new algorithm generates practical paper-folding patterns to produce any 3-D structure. In a 1999 paper, Erik Demaine -- now an MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer science, but then ...