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If you're excited about the Miura-ori mentioned in this article, check out the work Glaucio Paulino and company are doing with zipper coupled tubes: http://paulino.ce.gatech.edu/pnas_news_zipper.html

I'm curious about less uniform and more practical origami based things.

- coupling blocks - structures - actuators

etc etc

basically using origamis as a new basis for "common" application

Erik Demaine's lectures are a nice place to start if you are into formal geometric folding theory: http://erikdemaine.org/classes/

Screw theory! I can't wait until someone smart discovers that FACT works at ohmic scale!

- Freedom and constraint topology -- A way of considering flexure bearing systems.

oh that's exactly the kind of things I'm looking for

A: What's your favorite field of math?

B: Knot theory

A: Yeah, me either.

The Atomic Theory of Origami