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Anyone know if this field has gained any substantial traction since 2012 and the collaborations with NASA? Looks really interesting, but seems more recreational

Anyone know if this field has gained any substantial traction since 2012 and the collaborations with NASA? Looks really interesting, but seems more recreational, though i could be wrong.

SiempreViernes 6y ago
If you look at the later lectures, it seems the recreational aspects are a trap to get you to attend thing like: ”Algorithms for unfolding 2D chains, pseudotriangulation, energy; rigid folding of single-vertex origami; locked trees, infinitesimally locked linkages, Rules 1 and 2; locked 3D chains, knitting needles.” Here you are fairly far from ’recreational’ folding, those words paint pictures of serious people gettin very upset at the very notion of folding something for pleasure! http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.849/fall12/lectures/ http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.849/fall12/lectures/
- schoen 6y ago
  Although I think some of those algorithms have led to the creation of software that is used by people folding recreationally.
emmanueloga_ 6y ago
He talks about applications in the first lecture: * Robotics is a big one, folding robotic arms. * Computer graphics. ... animate your characters ... skeletons as foldable objects * Mechanics: A lot of the early folding work is in like 17, 1800s, and is motivated by building mechanical linkages to do useful things. * Manufacturing: if you could get them to fold objects (ex: CPUs), then you could manufacture 3D nano-scale objects. * Optics. A MIT group does some optical devices through folding * Medical: folding a stent really small, do non-intrusive heart surgery. Drug delivery. * Aero-astro. fold things within space shuttles * Biology. Big one: protein folding * Sculpture: origami. * Interactive buildings' architecture: reconfigurable buildings. Hoberman is one example of somebody exploring this, getting the building to fold from one shape to another, or getting your shades to fold from one shape to another, all sorts of things.
- perl4ever 6y ago
  What about parachutes?
  - emmanueloga_ 6y ago
    Well he doesn't discuss parachutes... What would be an improvement in this case? I guess one could came up with a smaller parachute if it was optimally folded. Psychologically I suspect I would feel safer with a regular size parachute vs a super advanced, algorithmically folded origami-parachute :-p
    - perl4ever 6y ago
      I never got as far as folding my own parachute, but I know they have to be folded somehow, and if it doesn't unfold properly, you die (modulo the reserve). So I'd speculate optimization could have a role in reliability. My memory is hazy, but I may have been told that the method of folding also affects how abruptly and with how much shock it opens.

Anyone know if this field has gained any substantial traction since 2012 and the collaborations with NASA? Looks really interesting, but seems more recreational, though i could be wrong.

SiempreViernes 6y ago

If you look at the later lectures, it seems the recreational aspects are a trap to get you to attend thing like: ”Algorithms for unfolding 2D chains, pseudotriangulation, energy; rigid folding of single-vertex origami; locked trees, infinitesimally locked linkages, Rules 1 and 2; locked 3D chains, knitting needles.” Here you are fairly far from ’recreational’ folding, those words paint pictures of serious people gettin very upset at the very notion of folding something for pleasure! http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.849/fall12/lectures/ http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.849/fall12/lectures/

schoen 6y ago
Although I think some of those algorithms have led to the creation of software that is used by people folding recreationally.

emmanueloga_ 6y ago

He talks about applications in the first lecture: * Robotics is a big one, folding robotic arms. * Computer graphics. ... animate your characters ... skeletons as foldable objects * Mechanics: A lot of the early folding work is in like 17, 1800s, and is motivated by building mechanical linkages to do useful things. * Manufacturing: if you could get them to fold objects (ex: CPUs), then you could manufacture 3D nano-scale objects. * Optics. A MIT group does some optical devices through folding * Medical: folding a stent really small, do non-intrusive heart surgery. Drug delivery. * Aero-astro. fold things within space shuttles * Biology. Big one: protein folding * Sculpture: origami. * Interactive buildings' architecture: reconfigurable buildings. Hoberman is one example of somebody exploring this, getting the building to fold from one shape to another, or getting your shades to fold from one shape to another, all sorts of things.

perl4ever 6y ago
What about parachutes?
- emmanueloga_ 6y ago
  Well he doesn't discuss parachutes... What would be an improvement in this case? I guess one could came up with a smaller parachute if it was optimally folded. Psychologically I suspect I would feel safer with a regular size parachute vs a super advanced, algorithmically folded origami-parachute :-p
  - perl4ever 6y ago
    I never got as far as folding my own parachute, but I know they have to be folded somehow, and if it doesn't unfold properly, you die (modulo the reserve). So I'd speculate optimization could have a role in reliability. My memory is hazy, but I may have been told that the method of folding also affects how abruptly and with how much shock it opens.