11 Levels of Origami: Easy to Complex | WIRED
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11 Levels of Origami: Easy to Complex | WIRED
All Comments (21)
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Read more about Robert Lang’s incredible career as a physicist, engineer and origami artist at wired.com/: www.wired.com/story/an-origami-artist-shows-how-to…
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“Physicist and origami artist. One pays the bills, one uses the bills.”
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Level 46:"So the cicada will actually attempt to fold you"
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"Origami artist and physicist" this man has conquered life
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Level 99: As you can see here, folding the electrons, protons and neutrons of the Cicada was relatively simple... But collapse folding them into the appropriate Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Iron, Magnesium ... And Copper Atoms is a bit tricky
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Level 12 can actually fly.
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Level 42: the cicada starts gaining consciousness
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"Akira Yoshizawa considered his own cicada to be his greatest creation." His kids:
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he was at level 4 or 5 when the thought crossed my mind..."there are still 6 levels more???"
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Level 50: It's not easy to fold the cardiac muscle, but if you don't, its heart won't beat at the right rhythm...
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level 26: make sure the nucleus is not placed too close to the cell wall
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He legit left a job at NASA to persue origami. I was a HUGE origami enthusiasist in my childhood and Robert was my hero, literally. But I started losing interest after getting to a hostel based school, and completely abandoned it now. But these videos still make me feel happy about my childhood. :')
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This man knows more about cicadas than cicadas know about themselves.
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Level 1000: it’s kind of hard to fold the ions without tearing it
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This guy actually designs satellite solar panels that fold in and out when theyre in space, its very cool.
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Oh gosh. This man is a legend to me. As I was a kid around 12, I discovered origami through a book of him at a library. I urged my mom to order me some more of his books and this grew in me an interest in Japan. 8 years later, I'm working in Tokyo, doing origamis with my coworker during my lunchbreak. Full circle.
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Level 3301: Cicada creates the greatest internet mystery
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level 20: “okay now be careful in case it tries to fly away”
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Level 126: “and as you can see here, I’ve made a fold for each red blood cell”
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I like how the more complex it became, the more it just became topology and the process of unwrapping a 3D model.
