Archive for October 16th, 2006

Origami part I

Monday, October 16th, 2006

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A paper lion by Joseph Wu, photographed by Sigurd Kranendonk

In the randform post about tesselations it was already mentioned that there are not so many mathematical things which can be visualized easily or visualized at all. However next to the tesselations there is a very popular area of mathematical visualization which is Origami. Origami is an active field of mathematical research as well as of arts.

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