PRESSSelf organized
Origami
In Origami, form follows the sequential
spatial organization of folds. This requires continuous
human intervention and raises a natural question: is
it possible to self-organize origami? We answer this
affirmatively by examining the physical origin for
the complex but ubiquitous Miura-ori leaf-folding patterns
which arise in the man-made world as an elegant resolution
of the degeneracy inherent in folding a map or the
deployment of a space structure, and arise in nature
in the context of the packing, unpacking and deployment
of leaves, petals and insect wings.
Related Article
- Self-organized origami,
L.
Mahadevan and
S.
Rica, Science, 307,
1740,
2005. 
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