Paper is flat, right? I often think about the similarities of when people thought that the world was flat; but with paper it is obvious, because you can hold it and fold it. I find the ways that artists have figured out how to make curves in paper astounding. And not when you just twist it into a loop, like a mobius strip, but when it is scored on a curve, you can actually coax paper to fold in ways it otherwise wouldn’t. Eric Demaine and Martin Demaine are at MIT and wrote an interesting paper (with pictures) about the surprisingly old history of what they call curved-crease sculpture, going back to the 1920s at the Bauhaus. They create paper sculptures and describe how the “paper […]