When Dr. Thomas L. Clark, a.k.a. Dr. Snowflake, gets his hands on a piece of paper and a pair of scissors, amazing snowflakes emerge. Unlike origami, in which just folding paper yields amazing ...
I love fractals. So what better way to celebrate winter than creating a fun card based on the famous Koch snowflake (also know as the Koch star or island). First described by Helge von Koch in 1904, ...
Here at Physics World HQ we have seen a lot of origami cropping up in physics over the last few years, be it curved-crease origami, origami robots or even sheets of graphene oxide going for a stroll.
The art of folding paper is usually a solitary, meditative endeavor. But when your origami project involves 49,000 business cards and a healthy dose of non-Euclidean geometry, you probably want to ...