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Re:Islamic art inspires stretchy, switchable materials by jdietrich on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @09:15PM (#11301973)
Along similar lines, origami techniques are being used to design folding antennae and solar arrays for satellites.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-277 https://riunet.upv.es/bitstream/handle/10251/6461/PAP_MIURA_...

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Re:Islamic art inspires stretchy, switchable materials by pfd1986 on Thursday March 17, 2016 @01:41AM (#11302774)
Shameless plugin for my own research: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/38803060/html/files/nmat...
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