Gallery: MIT Geeks Create an Origami Thanksgiving
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The MIT Origami Club crafted Thanksgiving-themed paper sculptures. *Image: Dominick Reuter*
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The They call themselves OrigaMIT. *Image: Dominick Reuter*
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Every origami model you see relies on a blueprint—a series of pre-determined creases that will guide the folder through the process.*Image: Dominick Reuter*
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The paper turkeys were made with both pre-existing and original origami designs. *Image: Dominick Reuter*
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These were the most complex models to fold. *Image: Dominick Reuter*
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This model took up to four hours to fold. *Image: Dominick Reuter*
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Turkey folds up close. *Image: Dominick Reuter*
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OrigaMIT take a more technical slant to its paper folding, often reverse-engineering designs to figure out how they work. *Image: Dominick Reuter*
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“We’ll ask ourselves, ‘Ok, where does this step come from, why does a designer choose to do it like this?" says Yongquan Lu, OrigaMIT's incoming president. *Image: Dominick Reuter*
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“I really love how systematic it is,” says Lu. “It’s the perfect combination of math and art.” *Image: Dominick Reuter*
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Lu says that though OrigaMIT probably tends to be slightly more math-centric than your typical origami club, you don’t need to possess A Beautiful Mind caliber math skills to join in*Image: Dominick Reuter*
