It's not really as astounding a result as you might imagine. The proof ignores any sense of efficiency and relies on a few very simplistic primitives and triangulation.
I think it might have been another reference to the earlier talk on biology and evolution. The word meme was made up by Richard Dawkins in the late 70s. I guess most of the people who use the word don't know they are citing Richard Dawkins.
There must be many reasons why people laugh I suppose. My experience has been that [ as is shown so often in the movie ] people laugh when they do not understand what is being said, and feel they must react - so a laugh is often a default strategy to avoid seeming to be stupid.
I found this amazing, and uplifting. I teach origami to my 6th grade math students (and we also work at solving the Rubik's cube). I can't help but hope that a few of them will pull together the concepts of both art forms to become tomorrow's innovators, not just consumers.
This is going to be a great video to show to my math class. Those kids struggled through folding a paper crane... maybe this will give them some hope, or at least some perspective. After all, "it's simple!"
ahhhhh hard to say. He is good, and he "weights" a lot mostly because of treemaker and his book origami design secrets. Considering his folds, models, wouldnt put him so high. Shuki Kato, Kamiya Satoshi, Eric Joisel, there are so many great folders, Robert doesent stand out of other 30 greatest by nothing. Like Eric Joisel stood out for example
What you said is actually self-contradictory, the process of folding space-time involves moving, hence you can't travel unfathomable distance without moving.
And yes he is right, in 2017 there is origami engineering, they are inventing multidicipliner tools with huge range, medicine to space. It is saving our lives now.
Guys Why are you wondering why there’s people laughing He made jokes during his presentation I’d be sad for him if nobody laughed I myself, besides the fact that I was hypnotized by what he was saying, laughed a few times during the presentation
Me too!! The way he explained about how origami has changed was very interesting and useful!! I, myself, am so inspired to use these techniques and ideas to make my own origami creations!!
Totally agree they were mainly laughing when he make jokes I just felt bad when you could hear random laughing in the background when he was showing each piece of origami...he was showing Intricate, really difficult art pieces to create and there wasn’t anything funny about it so idk why would you laugh at that lol
i think it also has to do with how origami is commonly known as a very light subject and its described so solemnly by him. i guess it could sound like scientifically describing a childs scirbble
It's redundant to say that the man is brilliant. And he certainly knew his audience better than they knew themselves. He also shone a bright light on my humble creative endeavors.
Origami is the one art that has to be understood from both ends at the same time and built towards finishing in the middle. The folding itself is just a result of the final product. In addition, the restrictive nature is the biggest benefit and allows one to keep focus within the restrictions.
Impressive to say the least. I have been doing only for a few years now, I still feel I am a beginner at it. Maybe the fact that I am really bad in understanding mathematics would explain why I have hard time at it. Mr Lang is a true master, a visionary and he leads the way, hopefully to a better world where origami and science work together to save humanity's future...✨👌🙇🏻♀️💎
@@tartaglia. Welcome to the wonderful and magic world of origami. The more you fold the best you are going to feel and the more you are going to love it. Good luck👍🏻
This had the single best ad the best commercial for a phone of its time. I was enthralled excited and full of anticipation when it said the last line at the end welcome to the fourth screen it was amazing
great video, and great presentation. The funny thing is that this video came out in 2008, while the aformentioned James Webb telescope is still being prepared in 2019. The amount of work that it requires though is unbelievable
I am sure that someone is looking into this ... But, 4d printing and its application to moving forms .... This come to mind. Fluid in a folded form. Heaters built into the fibers of the paper. The dynamics of both cooperating to created an animate origami bug.
the amount of people mad about the laughing in the background is sad, he obviously had sarcastic and funny remarks in his presentation to catch the audiences attention.
The fact they can conceptualize this on a flat abstract way is insane. If it was me I just crumple and figure things out eventually and then unravel it and that’s my pattern haha. Insane.
wow i learned something new today. i am just learning how to do origami, and found this searching for origami tutorial videos. i had *no* idea that it was used to help design satellites and airbags and even medical devices. its just so kewl thanks for the video!
Have you ever been on a stand up comedy show, or any show that make people laugh, or a tv program??..well, they usually hire people to laugh, let say 5 or 6 of them, and they sat them evenly distributively, and there is not just a stupid laugh, it must be natural sound, and that laughter is contagious and so people goes on an laugh together, and the show sounds great because a lot of people is having fun...well some one here fuck up big time, and gave the laughing guys the wrong direction, and end up laughing here in a mathematical origami art speech.
Amazing!!! Turtle, insects, guitarist and so on.... I've folded organ and the other simple thing. But I can't fold like that. Really Creative. His TED talk was a lot of fun :D
The most frustrating thing in the world is to try to fold something, get to like the last step, and then discover that your paper is too thick. Satoshi's ancient dragon and one of Lang's bird from CP. XPP
Raymond Zheng - One thing Robert neglects to mention is that there was a good deal of complex origami before he developed his mathematical system of design, in which the creators did not consciously use mathematics or his Tree Maker program, and in fact some of the best creators in the world still do not consciously use mathematics in designing their models, Satoshi being foremost among them.
The same thing happened when the mathematics of how to draw persepective was discovered in the 14th/15th century and was incorporated into art, which suddenly no longer looked flat.
alecbg919 , If you liked the discovery of perspective drawing, you might enjoy the film “Tim’s Vermeer”. Quotes from Wikipedia entry: Engineer Tim Jenison “theorizes that Vermeer potentially used a camera obscura to guide his painting technique.” And “He notes Vermeer's hyper-accurate recreation of diffuse lighting would be impossible to recreate by simple eyesight because of color constancy. He also observes that some of Vermeer's work features chromatic aberration and depth of field, two distinct features of a photographic lens but not of the human eye.” Both “Tim’s Vermeer” and “Between the Folds” (which features Lang’s work and his students’) are in the category of magnificent obsessions 🤗🙏. In both cases they exemplify what Lang mentioned about the pursuit of depth leading to extraordinary inventions and solutions.
uh, the presenter was being deliberately humorous? i didn't notice any inappropriate laughter... altho the laughing was almost always kinda unnecessary.
One thing you left out was size; what was the largest size of the paper you used? What was the smallest? Are they always square? What happens if you change to a rectangle? A circle? Just curious.
It's not that you can't possibly do it with no knowledge of theory behind it...what these theories and principles do though is allow computers to calculate some of the hardest problems for you. It allows for extremely efficient ways to create the base so that we can focus more on the artistic details rather than the mathematical part of it all. These complicated models would likely never exist as it would have taken a life time of trial and error to figure out.
Shantanu Awale, A place to start would be the film “Between the Folds”. It is an introduction to computational origami and includes Lang and other top artists and scientists in the field. There are many delights and resources in the film, I’m sure it would help you.
My geometry class crazily loves Origami. Once they watched The Origami Revolution - Nova Documentary 2017. This video will be shown in my class. My students will be crazy with it. They had already folded something with origami method.
AUSTIN GRAY Yes, he has used it to make the diablo version of the tarantula as mentioned in the website. I've downloaded it and the circle packing kinda rocks.... a very useful software .
Can this apply to recycling newspaper or cardboard for shipping aboard?or other paper products in order to reduce cost. Now I must follow this rabbit into the hole and see where it leads
Does anyone know where I can find a video tutorial for how to fold one of those dang crease patterns (made with Treemaker 5)???? I have one right here and I have NO idea what to do with it. Help?
I just watched his WIRED video and he hasn't aged at all in 11 years.
he folded his own genes to prevent aging.
Well your not wrong....
100th like! 💯👍
O.o I saw the wired vid too. legit 8 months ago too.... lol
Is you blind?
This man is a genius. He left his job at NASA to study the maths of origami. He even found out that ANYTHING can be created with origami.
Jabsjetz yea
It's not really as astounding a result as you might imagine. The proof ignores any sense of efficiency and relies on a few very simplistic primitives and triangulation.
Jabsjetz i
tbf, it's a fairly new field of maths. give it some time and it will probably develop into solutions for string theory.
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ORIGAMI MEMES
This was in 2008, the man was ahead of his time.
I think it might have been another reference to the earlier talk on biology and evolution. The word meme was made up by Richard Dawkins in the late 70s. I guess most of the people who use the word don't know they are citing Richard Dawkins.
Godly based before it was cool
He is discovering God's marvelous and astounding thought process!
what would you say about this T.Sundara 'Row'! 1893 - stadt-annaburg.de/cms/uploads/media/tsundararowsgeo00rowrich.pdf ? :)
The reason the audience is laughing is:
a) Rob is a funny dude.
b) Sometimes you laugh because you find something overwhelming.
I was asking myself what's funny and everyone laughs, thanks MadDeuce. In fact, I agree
Pseudobulbar affect, like Joker
Eh I thought it was kinda weird and dumb that they were laughing at a lot of stuff that I doubt Robert intended to be funny.
There must be many reasons why people laugh I suppose. My experience has been that [ as is shown so often in the movie ] people laugh when they do not understand what is being said, and feel they must react - so a laugh is often a default strategy to avoid seeming to be stupid.
I found this amazing, and uplifting. I teach origami to my 6th grade math students (and we also work at solving the Rubik's cube). I can't help but hope that a few of them will pull together the concepts of both art forms to become tomorrow's innovators, not just consumers.
This is going to be a great video to show to my math class. Those kids struggled through folding a paper crane... maybe this will give them some hope, or at least some perspective. After all, "it's simple!"
one of the best origami masters of the 21st century.
ahhhhh hard to say. He is good, and he "weights" a lot mostly because of treemaker and his book origami design secrets.
Considering his folds, models, wouldnt put him so high.
Shuki Kato, Kamiya Satoshi, Eric Joisel, there are so many great folders, Robert doesent stand out of other 30 greatest by nothing.
Like Eric Joisel stood out for example
President of the 21st Origami, would fit.
@@igorsvacic217 what does weights mean
Wonder if someday he discovers a way to fold space-time, so we can travel unfathomable distances in an instant without moving.
That is a good insight. I also wonder about the potential for this methodology to be applied to other problems.
What you said is actually self-contradictory, the process of folding space-time involves moving, hence you can't travel unfathomable distance without moving.
we might eventually live in a universe thats folded like a black forest cuckoo clock
@@TheJonathankang unless space-time is already folded.
Thank you for this...spicy comment 😎
I've seen dozens of TEDTALKS and this one is a new favourite! Really amazing possibilities!
@therussiankid hi
The advantages of simple origami are twofold.
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Hahaha. I laughed so hard at this comment!
I saw what you did there 😀
lol
And yes he is right, in 2017 there is origami engineering, they are inventing multidicipliner tools with huge range, medicine to space. It is saving our lives now.
applies in the are of compliant mechanisms...
Guys
Why are you wondering why there’s people laughing
He made jokes during his presentation
I’d be sad for him if nobody laughed
I myself, besides the fact that I was hypnotized by what he was saying, laughed a few times during the presentation
Me too!! The way he explained about how origami has changed was very interesting and useful!! I, myself, am so inspired to use these techniques and ideas to make my own origami creations!!
Totally agree they were mainly laughing when he make jokes I just felt bad when you could hear random laughing in the background when he was showing each piece of origami...he was showing Intricate, really difficult art pieces to create and there wasn’t anything funny about it so idk why would you laugh at that lol
@@katief7047 sometimes people laugh when they are surprised and or amazed ...
i think it also has to do with how origami is commonly known as a very light subject and its described so solemnly by him. i guess it could sound like scientifically describing a childs scirbble
haha
It's redundant to say that the man is brilliant. And he certainly knew his audience better than they knew themselves.
He also shone a bright light on my humble creative endeavors.
Origami is the one art that has to be understood from both ends at the same time and built towards finishing in the middle.
The folding itself is just a result of the final product. In addition, the restrictive nature is the biggest benefit and allows one to keep focus within the restrictions.
This is absolutely an epic explanation of origami and how it works and how people use it.
Impressive to say the least. I have been doing only for a few years now, I still feel I am a beginner at it. Maybe the fact that I am really bad in understanding mathematics would explain why I have hard time at it. Mr Lang is a true master, a visionary and he leads the way, hopefully to a better world where origami and science work together to save humanity's future...✨👌🙇🏻♀️💎
I have only been doing origami for 3 days, and I also feel like a beginner lmaooo
@@tartaglia. Welcome to the wonderful and magic world of origami. The more you fold the best you are going to feel and the more you are going to love it. Good luck👍🏻
As a lifelong nerd, this includes two of my all time favourite things: origami and space! Thank you!!!
This had the single best ad the best commercial for a phone of its time. I was enthralled excited and full of anticipation when it said the last line at the end welcome to the fourth screen it was amazing
great video, and great presentation. The funny thing is that this video came out in 2008, while the aformentioned James Webb telescope is still being prepared in 2019. The amount of work that it requires though is unbelievable
I am sure that someone is looking into this ... But, 4d printing and its application to moving forms .... This come to mind. Fluid in a folded form. Heaters built into the fibers of the paper. The dynamics of both cooperating to created an animate origami bug.
This is absolutely wonderful! Thank you!!
The laughter come from absolute delight.
10:03 wait am I the only one that saw Benjamine Zander in the audience?!?!
I saw him tooo
Who he?
He loved that origami organist
It's not the first time math has been applied to an art and the result being the art opened and become more profound and inspired.
the amount of people mad about the laughing in the background is sad, he obviously had sarcastic and funny remarks in his presentation to catch the audiences attention.
Why is anyone defending the audience here?
Absolutely amazing! I had a luck to correspond with him regarding the origami algorithm. Dr. Lang helped me to generalize it.
I understand the baseline of the whole presentation and concept. But what I don't understand is why are people laughing about it.
I think it is also funny when repeatly sais that we can dead poeple do our work.
He is funny to nerds. I laughed too
Because the origami sculptures are downright astounding, they don't look real
I laughed at surprise, that I have learned something totaly new.
That was incredibly inspiring. I'm definitely going to seek out the literature on the underlying mathematics.
The fact they can conceptualize this on a flat abstract way is insane. If it was me I just crumple and figure things out eventually and then unravel it and that’s my pattern haha.
Insane.
wow i learned something new today. i am just learning how to do origami, and found this searching for origami tutorial videos. i had *no* idea that it was used to help design satellites and airbags and even medical devices. its just so kewl thanks for the video!
look up Robert's book on origami if your interested in learning more!
Which one is that?
origami design secrets
Have you ever been on a stand up comedy show, or any show that make people laugh, or a tv program??..well, they usually hire people to laugh, let say 5 or 6 of them, and they sat them evenly distributively, and there is not just a stupid laugh, it must be natural sound, and that laughter is contagious and so people goes on an laugh together, and the show sounds great because a lot of people is having fun...well some one here fuck up big time, and gave the laughing guys the wrong direction, and end up laughing here in a mathematical origami art speech.
Amazing way of teaching origami by Robert Lang = )
I never thought a ted talk would be worth it
This man's books helped me through a very difficult time. Thanks Robert...
VERYvery interesting! Just genius...and ultra artistic as well. Wow!
I gots to get me some of that! Why don't they teach us this in university?
10:04 on the right...THATS BENJAMIN ZANDER who did the best ted talk of all times “the transformative power of classical music”
TED makes the internet worth while .. The most noble in the sharing of community, human thought and discovery.
Excelente palestra!!!. Aprendi muito.
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Amazing! "Oh world of wonders."
This is my fave on youtube, completely inspirational for me. he is my mathematics hero (R.L).
just think how may TED videos we can watch now :)
Origami is a very creative method to use mathematics.
Very great talk ❤
i used to have an origami busines but it.... folded. ;) j/k
@Mike P ayyy
10:51 This guy approves!!
Amazing!!! Turtle, insects, guitarist and so on.... I've folded organ and the other simple thing. But I can't fold like that. Really Creative. His TED talk was a lot of fun :D
Circle packing = Sacred geometry = Patters for ALL life and existence.
i had to add this to my faves. it was something i never knew and it showed me what origami is...math. its crazy. just awsome
*****
The most frustrating thing in the world is to try to fold something, get to like the last step, and then discover that your paper is too thick. Satoshi's ancient dragon and one of Lang's bird from CP. XPP
Raymond Zheng - One thing Robert neglects to mention is that there was a good deal of complex origami before he developed his mathematical system of design, in which the creators did not consciously use mathematics or his Tree Maker program, and in fact some of the best creators in the world still do not consciously use mathematics in designing their models, Satoshi being foremost among them.
The same thing happened when the mathematics of how to draw persepective was discovered in the 14th/15th century and was incorporated into art, which suddenly no longer looked flat.
alecbg919 , If you liked the discovery of perspective drawing, you might enjoy the film “Tim’s Vermeer”.
Quotes from Wikipedia entry:
Engineer Tim Jenison “theorizes that Vermeer potentially used a camera obscura to guide his painting technique.”
And “He notes Vermeer's hyper-accurate recreation of diffuse lighting would be impossible to recreate by simple eyesight because of color constancy. He also observes that some of Vermeer's work features chromatic aberration and depth of field, two distinct features of a photographic lens but not of the human eye.”
Both “Tim’s Vermeer” and “Between the Folds” (which features Lang’s work and his students’) are in the category of magnificent obsessions 🤗🙏. In both cases they exemplify what Lang mentioned about the pursuit of depth leading to extraordinary inventions and solutions.
@14:02 origami saving lives.
10:04 THAT'S BENJAMIN ZANDER IN THE BACK OMGGG
Ik
Beautiful
This Robert J Lang is a genius
I am so very impressed, I need the stent.
すごいなぁ・・・日本人でもこういう発想できる人は少ないと思う
wow. His ending comment was really deep
whats with the laughing in the background!. I think this presentation is amazing
To be fair, Feynman is actually funny in lectures.
some laughs, are nervous delight ! they're akin to "ah-HA" moments...
uh, the presenter was being deliberately humorous? i didn't notice any inappropriate laughter... altho the laughing was almost always kinda unnecessary.
Claudius Fanusie they laugh because it IS amazing
They're dumb af nvm
yeah i'd imagine, giving a presentation in front 1000 of the world's greatest minds would be pretty nerve racking
4 simple laws of Origami are: Ambitious, Courage, Patience and Stubbornness... (for your future Origamist)
and now the James Webb Telescope has been launched... crazy
Excelente palestra!
One thing you left out was size; what was the largest size of the paper you used? What was the smallest? Are they always square? What happens if you change to a rectangle? A circle? Just curious.
This talk is awesome!
9:37 HOLY CRAP THE FOUNDER OF "THE MEME".
Even though I know this is only a concidence, I never thought I would ever see Robert Lang standing in front of a clone trooper helmet.
It's not that you can't possibly do it with no knowledge of theory behind it...what these theories and principles do though is allow computers to calculate some of the hardest problems for you. It allows for extremely efficient ways to create the base so that we can focus more on the artistic details rather than the mathematical part of it all. These complicated models would likely never exist as it would have taken a life time of trial and error to figure out.
i think there could be a TED talk about the commercial itself......the origami was cool too
TED has always had commercials at the end. Until recently, they were for BMW.
Two independent persons named Erik Aberg and Chuck Hoberman also have their own interesting origami works.
Awesome video
this was put on on my birthday!
That's why I love origami somehow...
I saw this guy live, he's great. He sounded a little more nervous at TED, but hey...
I feel sorry for the "thumbs down" folks. Too bad they're running the country at the moment.
yeah its awesome...i get goosebumps..... its like it explains humanity itself, and how we developed to how we are now...
I find this very intersting to be a hobby, and I'm gonna try it :)
Where can we learn more about this? I mean the methods, mathematical models, etc. To create your own designs?
Shantanu Awale, A place to start would be the film “Between the Folds”. It is an introduction to computational origami and includes Lang and other top artists and scientists in the field. There are many delights and resources in the film, I’m sure it would help you.
Apparently origamis are the precursors of Transformers.
you are actually spot on here!
I didn't know Robert was on TED
My geometry class crazily loves Origami. Once they watched The Origami Revolution - Nova Documentary 2017. This video will be shown in my class. My students will be crazy with it. They had already folded something with origami method.
Where is his website or where can I find the tree maker program software? Tks
Great and impressive
Ok that was neat as heck.
Speechless
Has any he used the tree maker program I wonder how it will work out
AUSTIN GRAY
Yes, he has used it to make the diablo version of the tarantula as mentioned in the website. I've downloaded it and the circle packing kinda rocks.... a very useful software .
Can you make origami of person making origami
The fabric of existence would explode
Can this apply to recycling newspaper or cardboard for shipping aboard?or other paper products in order to reduce cost. Now I must follow this rabbit into the hole and see where it leads
if you want to go deeper into the math of it he has a book with a mathematical aproach in it
Found it in a Japanese airplane, gonna check out the WIRED video next. A viewer in 2024
sir please tell where can i learn this in detail ? what books?
Very cool ,I;, going to Chapters to get his book
Does anyone know where I can find a video tutorial for how to fold one of those dang crease patterns (made with Treemaker 5)????
I have one right here and I have NO idea what to do with it. Help?
They already have diagrams. You can find some in his book, origami design secrets.
Love it! Gives me inspiration.
Legend seeing in 2022 👍👍👍