, an assistant professor of computer science at MIT, is the leading theoretician in the emerging field of origami mathematics, and is applying insights from wrinkling and crinkling to questions in architecture, robotics and molecular biology. NYT
Very cool. Way over my head, but very cool. Especially if you read further to the part about the process in which amino acids are folded into proteins, and the goal of learning to predict how that will happen. Exciting research with lots of potential uses. Who would have thought advanced mathematics and origami could produce the next generation of 'organic' architecture?
Now all we have to do is come up with a building material that we could apply this to on a larger scale... That's the tough part. No one's come up with a way to build a fractal building either yet...
Erick Demaine and his father who teaches at MIT as well are always very happy to talk with architecture students and have been part of a few grad thesis committees (w/ interesting results).
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Very cool. Way over my head, but very cool. Especially if you read further to the part about the process in which amino acids are folded into proteins, and the goal of learning to predict how that will happen. Exciting research with lots of potential uses. Who would have thought advanced mathematics and origami could produce the next generation of 'organic' architecture?
Now all we have to do is come up with a building material that we could apply this to on a larger scale... That's the tough part. No one's come up with a way to build a fractal building either yet...
Good post!
Erick Demaine and his father who teaches at MIT as well are always very happy to talk with architecture students and have been part of a few grad thesis committees (w/ interesting results).
wasps and hornets fashion fractals buildings from paper all the time, and these are way cool. check it out.
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