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 at geometry behind origami (paperfolding.com).
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satheesh said,
July 18, 2008 at 7:12 pm
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!
zac said,
July 18, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Sadly, too many people think that mathematics = algebra only.
Thanks for the poetic description, Satheesh. Glad that you enjoyed the movie.