Japanese paper cutting art, or kirigami, is a traditional craft that involves cutting and folding paper to create beautiful ...

Drawing inspiration from ancient art forms – kirigami (paper cutting) and origami (paper folding) – researchers have found a ...

Paper is a modest material with rich affordances for craft and design. In this work, we explore shaping carbon-coated paper with manual and digital fabrication processes to create functional and ...

Perhaps the most interesting part is how much of these technologies borrow from the Japanese art of origami, and the related kirigami. Rather than trying to build three-dimensional structures ...