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Folding NASA Experience into an Origamist's Toolkit (2024)


’s Toolkit Subheadline Math for designing lasers becomes artist’s key to creating complex crease patterns What does origami have in common with electronics? Here, math once again proves to be a universal language, spanning not just cultures but disciplines. The discovery of the mathematical underpinnings of folded paper art helped Robert Lang leave a 20-year engineering career, including over four years at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, to pursue his lifelong passion for turning paper into impossibly intricate three-dimensional forms.

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