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Origami Papercup Engineering Company

July 12, 2005 on 10:19 am | In Events |

Over the last weekend, Jun Maekawa and his wife invited My Trinh and myself to his mountain cottage for a few days of relaxation and sightseeing. On the return journey to Tokyo, we detoured to a company which specialises in paper engineering. They engineer and produce machine tools for folding and forming paper. It was quite amazing to see the extent of the work they are able to produce. Of particular interest to me was the origami paper cup, as presented in Tom Hull’s book Origami [3], The 3rd meeting of Origami, Science and Education (Art was featured in the first 2 and dropped out of the title for some reason - I’m going to ask Robert Lang if he’ll bring it back in for the next one).