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BYU student discovers new origami pattern with real-world applications
One could ascertain that most origami patterns have been discovered because it has been an art form for many hundreds of years. So consider the intrigue of Brigham Young University engineering professor Larry Howell when one of his students, Kelvin (Zhongyuan) Wang, created a bloom-patterned origami form he’d never seen before. “I thought, 'This looks new to me. I’ve never seen anything like it,'” said Howell. “But that doesn’t mean that there’s not something out there.” Howell reached out to origami expert Robert Lang, who confirmed he’d never seen anything like ...