Origami Shapes (IMAGE)

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Origami Shapes

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Mahadevan and his team have characterized a fundamental origami fold, or tessellation, that could be used as a building block to create almost any three-dimensional shape, as seen above.

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(Photo courtesy of Mahadevan Lab/Harvard SEAS)

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