My biggest problem with the lecture was that I didn't know enough. The last time I did origami I think I was in middle school. Lang just kind of jumped in to the math of origami almost as if we were already well versed in the field. While that's fine and all and I'm sure there's some people there that understood a lot more than I did, it was tough to understand.
However the applications for origami surprised me. I had heard of other engineers solving problems with origami but didn't know how. While I still don't know exactly how, he showed one way that stresses in a structure could be determined with origami. Another neat thing was that he pulled in a little bit of what we talked about in class with the 4 colors for a map. However for origami you must be able to represent the fold pattern with only 2 colors. Another neat thing was that putting a fraction into binary coded your folds that you needed to make to represent that fraction on the paper. Overall the lecture was really neat, the application was cool, and the art was also crazy intense. Who knew origami had some much math involved? Okay....well you probably did, but not me!
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