A reader adds to this post, which went pretty viral on Facebook:
I certainly agree that Sipho Mabona’s work is fantastic. He is extremely intelligent, as you can see in this YouTube video. However, what Dish readers may not realize is that we are in the middle of a huge revolution inorigami, as new techniques are allowing origami artists to create ever more sophisticated creatures. Dr. Robert Lang, a Cal Tech Ph.D who left physics to do origami as a living, has been at the forefront of many of these new techniques, many of which come out of mathematics or computers. The result is a life-like depiction of animals and insects that are uncanny: it could be a bull moose, or a panther, a red-tailed hawk or a life-sized pteranodon – they are all made from just one piece of paper, with no cuts. Origami is considered to be a Japanese art form, but it has gone world-wide in the last 25 years, as Mr. Mabona and Dr. Lang show.
The rhino seen above is by Mabona as well. See more of his amazing work here. Update from a reader:
I watched Between the Folds on Netflix about a year ago and was fascinated by the many different techniques, styles, etc. It’s several years old, but really good. I’ll always love the paper swans I made in 3rd grade, but there’s a whole world of origami out there that I knew nothing about.
The whole documentary is also available on YouTube:
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