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Re:The Atomic Theory of Origami by adfm on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @12:35PM (#15602946)
If you're excited about the Miura-ori mentioned in this article, check out the work Glaucio Paulino and company are doing with zipper coupled tubes: http://paulino.ce.gatech.edu/pnas_news_zipper.html
Re:The Atomic Theory of Origami by agumonkey on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @04:54PM (#15605389)
I'm curious about less uniform and more practical origami based things.

- coupling blocks - structures - actuators

etc etc

basically using origamis as a new basis for "common" application

Re:The Atomic Theory of Origami by haskal on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @02:45PM (#15604277)
Erik Demaine's lectures are a nice place to start if you are into formal geometric folding theory: http://erikdemaine.org/classes/
Re:The Atomic Theory of Origami by oneman on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @01:16PM (#15603394)
Screw theory! I can't wait until someone smart discovers that FACT works at ohmic scale!

- Freedom and constraint topology -- A way of considering flexure bearing systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw_theory

https://www.flexible.seas.ucla.edu

Re:The Atomic Theory of Origami by nathancahill on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @06:39PM (#15606137)
A: What's your favorite field of math?

B: Knot theory

A: Yeah, me either.

Re:The Atomic Theory of Origami by agumonkey on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @04:56PM (#15605403)
oh that's exactly the kind of things I'm looking for