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MIT origami club folds valentines for Wagamama - Science. I’ve always been a Valentine’s Day curmudgeon, but here’s an expression of love, art, and math that even I can get behind: the origami club at MIT has folded hearts, roses, and butterflies in honor of the holiday.

MIT origami club folds valentines for Wagamama - Science

It’s often said that origami and math have a lot in common, but I asked the president of the club, Yongquan Lu—a sophomore math major known to his friends as YQ—to explain a little bit more about what that means. After all, paper folding is approachable to people who never took linear algebra. Lu said that origami is intricately connected with math; creating new forms requires one to think mathematically about creating a multidimensional object from a flat piece of paper. But in this instance, the club was approached by the restaurant, Wagamama, to make origami in honor of the holiday that could appear in their restaurant. Advertisement—Continue Reading Below. MIT OrigaMIT Club Created a Thanksgiving Platter Using Paper. Fox Origami Taxidermy par Foldology. Rang Phan's post on Vine. Photo by tphan91. Photo by tphan91. Photo by tphan91. Photo by tphan91.

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