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Had classes from David Huffman while at UC Santa Cruz. One of my favorite professors and he did not like when people constantly brought up Huffman coding.

Spent several hours talking various topics, but one of his favorite areas of exploration when I was around campus was paper folding.

A couple of links with examples:

- https://www.cise.ufl.edu/~manuel/huffman/index.html

- https://collections.mitmuseum.org/collection/david-a-huffman...

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Do you know how he makes such precise curved folds? I'm no expert, but love me some origami and I can't believe that I'd be able to get folds to turn out like that. Anything I would attempt would invariably have little sub-creases instead of a smooth fold.

Normally you would use a creaser, which is like a dull knife that is pressed down into the paper, perhaps over a slightly giving surface.

Images don't load from the second link for me. Sad museum? :/ Chrome on Android btw.

from Firefox PC works fine :)

My Firefox says for media-internal.mitmuseum.org where the images are hosted on

The certificate is only valid for the following names: *.s3.amazonaws.com, s3.amazonaws.com

Let's hope you happened to get served a valid cert, and not that the cert validation is disabled or broken in your Firefox.

Yep, Firefox is telling me that some parts of this page are not secure, such as images. I guess you may have more strict security settings.

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