Sentence examples for computational origami from inspiring English sources
Computer science has long struggled with computational origami.
The construction is one of an astonishing collection of paper objects folded by Dr. David Huffman, a former professor of computer science at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a pioneer in computational origami, an emerging field with an improbable name but surprisingly practical applications.
How and under what conditions things can fold flat is a major concern in computational origami.
The first was Erik Demaine, the youngest professor in M.I.T.'s history, who established the field of computational origami.
Computational origami, also known as technical folding, or origami sekkei, draws on fields that include computational geometry, number theory, coding theory and linear algebra.
He was busy refereeing papers for a conference, so gave me a beer and a paper to read on computational origami.
At an adjacent conference on origami and education, Dr. Robert Lang, a leading computational origamist, will give a talk on mathematics and its application to origami design, including such real-world problems as folding airbags and space-based telescopes.
"That's where mathematics and origami started merging, because here we're using mathematical and computational tools to design origami that humans couldn't really do before.
Modeling and analysis of origami structures allow for the understanding of their behavior and the development of computational tools for their design.
First, computational power.
