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This course focuses on the algorithms for analyzing and designing geometric foldings.
FREE
This course includes
Hours of videos
1111 years
Units & Quizzes
40
Unlimited Lifetime access
Access on mobile app
Certificate of Completion
Topics include reconfiguration of foldable structures, linkages made from one-dimensional rods connected by hinges, folding two-dimensional paper (origami), and unfolding and folding three-dimensional polyhedra. Applications to architecture, robotics, manufacturing, and biology are also covered in this course.
Acknowledgments
Thanks to videographers Martin Demaine and Jayson Lynch.
Course Currilcum
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- Lecture 1: Overview Unlimited
- Lecture 2: Simple Folds Unlimited
- Lecture 3: Single-Vertex Crease Patterns Unlimited
- Lecture 4: Efficient Origami Design Unlimited
- Lecture 5: Artistic Origami Design Unlimited
- Lecture 6: Architectural Origami Unlimited
- Lecture 7: Origami is Hard Unlimited
- Lecture 8: Fold & One Cut Unlimited
- Lecture 9: Pleat Folding Unlimited
- Lecture 10: Kempe’s Universality Theorem Unlimited
- Lecture 11: Rigidity Theory Unlimited
- Lecture 12: Tensegrities & Carpenter’s Rules Unlimited
- Lecture 13: Locked Linkages Unlimited
- Lecture 14: Hinged Dissections Unlimited
- Lecture 15: General & Edge Unfolding Unlimited
- Lecture 16: Vertex & Orthogonal Unfolding Unlimited
- Lecture 17: Alexandrov’s Theorem Unlimited
- Lecture 18: Gluing Algorithms Unlimited
- Lecture 19: Refolding & Smooth Folding Unlimited
- Lecture 20: Protein Chains Unlimited
- Lecture 21: HP Model & Interlocked Chains Unlimited
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- Class 1: Overview Unlimited
- Class 2: Univeresality & Simple Folds Unlimited
- Class 3: Single-Vertex Crease Patterns Unlimited
- Class 4: Efficient Origami Design Unlimited
- Class 5: Tessellations & Modulars Unlimited
- Class 6: Architectural Origami Unlimited
- Class 7: Origami is Hard Unlimited
- Class 8: Fold & One Cut Unlimited
- Class 9: Pleat Folding Unlimited
- Class 10: Kempe’s Universality Theorem Unlimited
- Class 11: Generic Rigidity Unlimited
- Class 12: Tensegrities Unlimited
- Class 13: Locked Linkages Unlimited
- Class 14: Hinged Dissections Unlimited
- Class 15: General & Edge Unfolding Unlimited
- Class 16: Vertex & Orthogonal Unfolding Unlimited
- Class 17: D-Forms Unlimited
- Class 19: Refolding & Kinetic Sculpture Unlimited
- Class 20: 3D Linkage Folding Unlimited
