Origami, the ancient Japanese art of paper folding, is a wonderful way to create beautiful and intricate designs. While traditional origami mainly features two-dimensional shapes, 3D origami takes ...

Looking for a new hobby? Crafting is not only a fun way to pass the time, but it has also been linked to lower levels of anxiety and stress. If you’re good with your hands, origami is a low-cost and ...

Abstract: Pneumatic soft actuators are widely used in various applications. Recent years, pneumatic origami actuators were studied intensively because of the advantages of high energy efficiency, ...

Abstract: This paper presents a novel approach to realize 3D-printed flexible reconfigurable antennas, along with a proof-of-concept tunable bow-tie antenna inspired from Chinese origami fan.

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MIT的研究人员发现了一种只需拉动一根线就能把平面薄片转变为功能性三维物体的方法。这就像一本立体书，但要复杂得多。奇妙的是，操作却异常简便。该工作来自MIT计算机科学与人工智能实验室，已在《ACM Transactions on ...

The first version of ORIPA was released in 2005. ORIPA was made open source in 2012, and was pushed to Github in 2013. To find out more about using the software ...