Eric Demaine is one of the better intersections of origami and mathematics, you should also read up on Dr Robert Lang, the OG and perhaps the most famous American JPL-physicist-turned-origamist: https://langorigami.com/
On the flip side the late Eric Joisel created perhaps the most amazing curved-crease and natural folding that we’ll ever see, his works were truly amazing art: https://ericjoisel.fr/en/home/
These remind me of the Elliptic Curve pieces from another post on the HN front page right now (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44315321) I wonder if the poster was inspired by that one to also post these here?
Anyway, these are pretty cool/unique looking! I hadn't seen curved origami like this before.
FuriouslyAdrift · 3h ago
Le Klint makes hand folded curved lamp shades that are prtty neat. They have workshops to teach people how to do it, too.
Which comes as a kit you put together (keep som clear packing tape handy... it can crack if folded to hard... lol)
ForrestN · 23m ago
Very cool math and technique that results in... shockingly little expression. As art qua art, the resulting forms here are utterly bereft of any feeling of artistic purpose or intensity. "Art for math's sake" I suppose?
kazinator · 44m ago
> There is a surprisingly old history to curved-crease sculpture, going back to the 1920s at the Bauhaus.
That's surprisingly recent.
esafak · 3h ago
This duo must have the most fun job in all academia.
On the flip side the late Eric Joisel created perhaps the most amazing curved-crease and natural folding that we’ll ever see, his works were truly amazing art: https://ericjoisel.fr/en/home/
It looks like there's a more recent series as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4-cftqTcdI
Anyway, these are pretty cool/unique looking! I hadn't seen curved origami like this before.
https://www.leklint.com/collections/pendants/products/le-kli...
https://www.ikea.com/ma/en/p/krusning-pendant-lamp-shade-whi...
https://www.leklint.com/blogs/stories/3daysofdesign-2025
An old promo showing some of the techniques they use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3T_il3Qphc
Which comes as a kit you put together (keep som clear packing tape handy... it can crack if folded to hard... lol)
That's surprisingly recent.