Friday Math Movie – The Amazing Origami of Robert Lang
Origami is the art of paper folding. In Japanese, ori comes from “oru” which means “fold” and gami comes from “kami” which means “paper”.
Robert Lang is a full-time origami artist. In this movie, he explains how he uses a math to make his excellent creations. As he says,
Math is much broader than what most people think.
[The movie is from wired.com and there's advertising at the beginning.]
You can get a better idea of the math in origami that he is talking about from some of the sites on this (rather difficult to read) page: Math and Origami.
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18 Jul 2008 at 7:12 pm Link to this comment
Every one know that maths is an ocean and its tough to know clearly a drop.
Through this i had a chance to know one more drop!
Thank you!
18 Jul 2008 at 7:59 pm Link to this comment
Sadly, too many people think that mathematics = algebra only.
Thanks for the poetic description, Satheesh. Glad that you enjoyed the movie.
19 Sep 2009 at 10:56 pm Link to this comment
deadlink
seems like all wired.com stuff is dead
20 Sep 2009 at 9:43 am Link to this comment
Thanks, Carlton for alerting me.
Wired.com failed one of the key rules of usability – if you change your site around, it should not break all those other sites that link to you.
Grrr…
I fixed it.