[HN Gopher] Curved-Crease Sculpture
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Curved-Crease Sculpture
https://erikdemaine.org/curved/history/
Author : wonger_
Score : 144 points
Date : 2025-06-19 14:13 UTC (8 hours ago)
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| FuriouslyAdrift wrote:
| Le Klint makes hand folded curved lamp shades that are prtty
| neat. They have workshops to teach people how to do it, too.
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| https://www.leklint.com/collections/pendants/products/le-kli...
| Centigonal wrote:
| What's great is that, if you accidentally sit on that lampshade
| or damaging it while moving houses, it has a second life as an
| IKEA KRUSNING!
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| https://www.ikea.com/ma/en/p/krusning-pendant-lamp-shade-whi...
| colechristensen wrote:
| Any info about the workshops? Or instructions on similar
| techniques?
| FuriouslyAdrift wrote:
| It's going on right now (in Copenhagen)
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| https://www.leklint.com/blogs/stories/3daysofdesign-2025
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| An old promo showing some of the techniques they use:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3T_il3Qphc
| colechristensen wrote:
| Ah sadly on the wrong continent
| FuriouslyAdrift wrote:
| There's also this: https://www.normann-
| copenhagen.com/en/Product/Product-Collec...
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| Which comes as a kit you put together (keep som clear packing
| tape handy... it can crack if folded to hard... lol)
| dendrite9 wrote:
| You might be interested in Madonna Yoder's tessellation
| instructions: https://training.gatheringfolds.com/garden
|
| I bought Folding Techniques for Designers: From Sheet to Form
| by Paul Jackson on a whim several years ago and found it fun
| to work through. I think he has a new edition and some other
| books but I don't have any experience with them.
| esafak wrote:
| This duo must have the most fun job in all academia.
| frakt0x90 wrote:
| In addition to being great artists, I also learned dynamic
| programming from this guy via his outstanding lectures:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp4_UXaVyx8&list=PLJl4xQazDg...
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| It looks like there's a more recent series as well:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4-cftqTcdI
| hokumguru wrote:
| 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/
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| 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/
| jmspring wrote:
| Looking at Lang's site, yes it is a super niche area, but there
| is a lot of self promotion - books, events, etc. I was first
| introduced to the general area of curved crease, etc was with
| David Huffman in the early 90s. He started that work in the
| early 70s. So, Lang proclaims to the the first, but
| salesmanship is important.
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| Eric himself reconstructs some of huffman's work -
| https://erikdemaine.org/papers/Huffman_Origami5/paper.pdf
|
| It's an interesting area.
| kazinator wrote:
| > There is a surprisingly old history to curved-crease sculpture,
| going back to the 1920s at the Bauhaus.
|
| That's surprisingly recent.
| TheCoreh wrote:
| 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?
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| Anyway, these are pretty cool/unique looking! I hadn't seen
| curved origami like this before.
| wonger_ wrote:
| Actually I was just pruning old bookmarks, and thought people
| would find this origami interesting. I hadn't seen the elliptic
| curves post -- thanks!
| talkingtab wrote:
| The force from curved folds can be used in other ways. If you
| score a sheet of copper in a curved line, then fold it along the
| score you get a twisted form. If you have some poster board handy
| you can use the same technique as well. Vessels!
| srean wrote:
| Curved creases aside, the fact that folding a piece of paper
| gives you a straight line is itself quite amazing and deep.
|
| Even if I couldn't trust a cheap ruler, a straight edge is a
| piece of paper away.
| ndileas wrote:
| One of the underappreciated causes and effects of the
| industrial revolution is the precision that's around us all the
| time. To make that piece of paper required thousands of
| precision surfaces, rollers, etc.
| Cerium wrote:
| And oh how we take it for granted. I recently spent a few
| minutes trying to make sense of a situation where I was using
| a corner of a paper for a square. It turned out the piece of
| paper was not at all square, at least a quarter of an inch
| out of square!
| boulos wrote:
| For folks interested in folding and origami, the documentary
| _Between the Folds_ was excellent. I don 't know if anyone
| recorded a Q&A when it did the film festival circuit, but if you
| could find one, it'd be worth watching.
| bdbenton5255 wrote:
| Wonderful, a nice meeting place between modern and classical art.
| Arguably one of the most alluring features of classical art is
| the complexity and intricacy of detail.
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