v=RkRvuLfIYhI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E75_K0X1MlM
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Thanks to Sarah and Peter for pointing out and sharing the Lexus stellated
octahedron commercial:
https://lexusenthusiast.com/2018/03/08/lexus-celebrates-owners-with-new-commercial/
At first I thought, wow, that’s cool! Did they fold all those or was it just
CGI? It was real, as can be seen by
s in "Off" position
(star); when in ring shape, 8 batteries are connected in series!
Enjoy!
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eck, NJ and are interested in seeing it, please
come by. Email me before 6:00 PM (US Eastern time) Wednesday, October 11
with an approximate time, and I will give you all the pertinent information.
Thanks.
Yaacov Metzger
hloe S., Ithaca
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Really cute toddler t-shirt - "ROAR-AGAMI!"- only $4 at Target! (USA)
Sizes 12 months to 5T
https://bit.ly/2BiAlia
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Today's Google Doodle for those outside US:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=17&v=Rd7X0NsOeRk
Celebrating Mister Rogers (with an origami surprise!)
Yaacov
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 7:48 AM Jacob Metzger wrote:
> Sept 21, 2018 - enough said!
>
Let's try that again, with a proper URL:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/t-magazine/japanese-paper-washi.html
from The New York Times:
Washi is to the Japanese something like what wine is to the French ? a
national obsession and point of pride.
e/crumple-paper-math.html
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s — using the Demaines’s mathematical
origami designs for how to fold paper and linkages
<http://erikdemaine.org/folding/> into different shapes.
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>>snip
> There are too many single and duo-colored kusudamas in the world. I think
> it's because most of us couldn't find how to symmetrically arrange
> different color units
> together. If more people knew about your chart there would probably be
> more multicolor kusudamas in the world. So how
the Museum of Modern
Art in New York, which includes mobile sculptures and subtle references to
geopolitical events"
And here is the link to the full article: https://nyti.ms/393Cvyl
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PS Karen Reeds, I'm surprised you missed it!
Seen in this past weekend's NY Times "At Home" section:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/at-home/coronavirus-paper-planes.html
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that were mailed not in envelopes but in the writing paper
itself after being folded into elaborate enclosures.
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/02/science/locked-letters-unfolding.html?searchResultPosition=1>
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/02/science/locked-letters-unfolding.html
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From: Evelyn -Evi- Binzinger
science
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21326-w/figures/1
another article, which shows different folding techniques.
Evi, thanks for this. Not surprising to see Martin and Erik Demaine's names
on the author list!
Yaacov
>From the NY Times:
The Latest Wrinkle in Crumple Theory
>From studies of “geometric frustration,” scientists learn how paper folds
under pressure.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/08/science/math-crumple-fragmentation-andrejevic.html
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art helps people bear the unbearable.
Moving article, with beautiful pictures of the cranes
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It seems that the new Marvel movie "Morbius" (I have not seen it) has
a bit of origami in its plot. See review snippet here:
"Born with a rare blood disease, Michael Morbius has spent his entire
life working on two things — a cure, and origami paper-folding. Natch,
it occurs to him to fold togethe
Al Jaffee, the creator of Mad Magazine’s “Fold-In” back page. Entertaining
read for those of us of a certain age for whom MAD was an integral part of our
childhood.
Relevant section from the obituary:
The impact of Mr. Jaffee’s fold-in gimmick was evident in many imitations and
homages ov
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