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Spinoff story

Folding NASA Experience into an Origamist’s Toolkit

A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.

About this technology

Overview

While working on optical computing and similar technology in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Robert Lang learned a mathematical technique that became key to his math-based approach to creating otherwise impossible origami designs. Lang is now a full-time origamist based in Altadena, California.