Here’s an idea that occurs to me from time to time — what if we used curved origami techniques to make a new kind of Chinese food take-out box? The venerable carton to the right is the standa...
http://origami.oschene.com/archives/2012/12/03/the-adobong-box/
The Ron Resch Paper and Stick Film from Sheet on Vimeo. It is with some reluctance that I point at this video — not because I imagine it is sinful to do so, but because I have seen this film su...
http://origami.oschene.com/archives/2012/08/11/ron-reschs-paper-and-stick-video/
I’m not entirely sure why I find this model compelling. The proportions are pleasing and it reminds me of Philip Shen, the way it suddenly locks together at the end. I would call it simple, but...
Went to the New York City Convention, last week, and it was fun as it always is, but as always, I feel a sense of not having explained myself sufficiently. I taught a couple of classes, both on t...
http://origami.oschene.com/archives/2012/07/01/the-one-cut-nonagon-and-the-nine-pointed-twist-star/
I went to a talk last week on protein folding, given by one of the College’s chemistry profs. I was delighted to find that there is a mechanism for correcting folding sequences that go wrong. A...
http://origami.oschene.com/archives/2012/02/24/protein-folding/
This is a ten-sided yin-yang globe, a modular kirigami model I designed for a friend to use in a gift exchange for the 10th Gathering for Gardner. Martin Gardner wrote the Mathematical Games sect...
http://origami.oschene.com/archives/2012/01/25/ten-sided-yin-yang-globe/
Origami isn’t only an art form, practiced by thousands worldwide, it’s also an Australian jazz trio. And they have an album coming out. This album comes in two forms: the now traditional digi...
http://origami.oschene.com/archives/2011/09/23/the-blues-of-joy/
This is a QR code bug. It is really just a waterbomb with legs, skinny bug-like legs. What makes it interesting is that it has two ways of reproducing itself. The first is the ordinary way most o...
http://origami.oschene.com/archives/2010/11/26/the-qr-code-bug/
I was just admiring the calendars on the CDO site and of course, admiration leads to emulation. Being a cube, this is just a six month calendar, but when July comes, you can open it up, reverse a...
http://origami.oschene.com/archives/2010/11/21/calendario-2011/
About a year ago, I read a book on Japanese temple mathematics that I found in the local libraries. Well, I didn’t read it completely — there was a great deal of it I couldn’t follow. But t...
http://origami.oschene.com/archives/2010/05/20/temple-mathematics/