Yes, the research was first done by the high school student mentioned in TFA, who, for a class project, developed a model to justify the folkloric claim that th

Yes, the research was first done by the high school student mentioned in TFA, who, for a class project, developed a model to justify the folkloric claim that the maximum number of possible folds was 8. Her model suggested that, contrary to popular belief, 12 folds was possible, so she set out to empirically test that prediction.[0] [0] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Folding.html http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Folding.html