Origami News

The title " From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes " may not sound like a talk on the ancient art of paper folding and the surprising amount of mathematics that goes into origami design.

The Conmoto Origami ethanol fireplace can be hung anywhere around the house without a flue connection, bringing an atmospheric mood to any room in your home.

All works presented are created by Center of Esthetics' students. On the same day, Small Theater will host 'Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter' dramatized show based on Japanese lyrics.

What can you make with a simple piece of paper? Ashland artist Cathy Egelston will help kids create boxes, balls and more during an origami workshop this afternoon at Ashland's library.

Annabelle Holman displays a pair of origami cranes. "I hope I can make 1,000", she said.

Children greeted each other with 'konnichiwa' the Japanese word for 'good afternoon' as they sat on the floor at a low table, eagerly grasping their chopsticks.

Hoveround's human resources staff will never forget the shiny, red Chinese takeout box a job seeker sent them.

Looking up to the sky, allowing imagination and creativity to soar, kids attending the Utah Arts Festival are being taught to make fish - and other things - fly.

PEACE OFFERINGS. From left to right, Angela Chan, Keifer Sumers and Zea Gutierrez, students at Holy Rosary Catholic School, display origami cranes they made for the delegation.

While on the surface, paper-folding may be seem like rather mundane act reserved for junior high distractions like airplanes that miss their mark and triangle footballs, there's a level of beauty hidden within those creases.

Hoveround's human resources staff will never forget the shiny, red Chinese takeout box a job seeker sent them.

These papercraft and origami-inspired fashions owe a lot to the ancient Japanese art of paper-folding, but as you can see, they've taken this art in an entirely new direction.

The Flathead County Library's Teen Summer Reading Program kicks off today. All teens ages 11 to 17 can keep track of their time spent reading and earn prizes; teens completing the program will be entered for grand prizes that include a Flip video camera and gift certificates to Kalispell Center Mall.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Summer Art Camp at The Art Center is in full swing, and there are still seven weeks left for children, ages five through twelve, to take part in an opportunity to explore many arts forms, learn new things, and have the opportunity to create their own art.

Roz Chast's cartoons about neuroses and general angst have been running in The New Yorker since 1978.

Tomohiro Tachi, "Origamizing Polyhedral Surfaces," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics , vol.

Armand Nelson Schneider of Boulder still wears a back brace after being hit by a passenger train in Japan.

The Jakuba Tables Fashion Edition are very cleverly made. Not only do they have a fun origami style shape, but they also have a colored, patterned interior.

The Programmable Matter program at DARPA seems to be coming right along. The intent of the program is to have material that can form itself into a variety of three-dimensional objects on command.

The ancient art of origami has become more and more popular as talented designers have continued to experiment with 3D creations that look so lifelike, they seem almost more amazing than the real objects they mimic.