Symposium on Origami-Based Engineering Design, Portland OR Aug 4-7

Origami is showing up big time in deployable structures, as well as at the microscale. This symposium within the 2013 ASME conference in Portland was unusual both for the attendees’ various backgrounds, from math to aerospace to micro/nano engineering AND the amazing folded paper demos people brought along. “Flat folding” gets into some deep mathematics, …