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Great story… “How to Fold Paper in Half Twelve Times: An “Impossible Challenge” Solved and Explained”….
When my son was near the end of his primary school years, I thought that it was time that I should impart some of my Weird Freaky Science Wisdom - and have a little bit of fun as well. I told him that I would give him a million dollars if he could fold a piece of paper in half, and in half again, and so on for a total of 10 times. Of course he tried, and of course he failed.
I knew that this would happen, because it was “Accepted Wisdom” that it was impossible to fold a piece of paper in half 10 times (or seven, or nine, for that matter.). I told him that it couldn’t be done, even if he used paper the size of a football field. But I now know that I was wrong.
Suppose that you start with an standard A4 sheet of paper - about 300 mm long, and about 0.05 mm thick.
The first time you fold it in half, it becomes 150 mm long and 0.1 mm thick. The second fold takes it to 75 mm long and 0.2 mm thick. By the 8th fold (if you can get there), you have a blob of paper 1.25 mm long, but 12.8 mm thick. It’s now thicker than it is long, and, if you’re trying to bend it, seems to have the structural integrity of steel.
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| Folding paper… | | Great story… “How to Fold Paper in Half Twelve Times: An “Impossible Challenge” Solved and Explained”….
When my son was near the end of his primary school years, I thought that it was time that I should impart some of my Weird Freaky Science Wisdom - and have a little bit of fun as well. I [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 24-Aug-2008 by Nerdblog in General
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| Hellooooo Skype [Day Note] | | To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Not Big On Folding Paper. Sorry. I finally got around to signing up for Skype. Shocking isn't it, that I haven't really used it before. (Not counting on my PSP). I think we're going to use it for our monthly Kotaku Tower Editor-Type meetings. Hey since we're going to be meeting once a month anyway to talk games n' shit, maybe we should just record i [..] Read complete article | | Published 11-Sep-2008 by Brian Crecente in day note Note
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| Miniblinken: Alternative phosphor paper display | | Typ.o made this really unusual display out of an old scanner and some phosphor paper. Unfortunately the image created only last a short time. I salvages a similar piece of paper from an old Light Sketcher toy and now I know what I should have made with it!
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| Paper Portraits by Bert Simon |  Bert Simon has taken papercraft to a whole new level. His website has several other portraits and a lot of great photography. You can even download a 12 page PDF and make a paper clone of the artist.
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| Paper Wars exhibition |  In London? Check out the Paper Wars show, opening May 15 at the Craze Gallery. It’s themed around the papercraft AK-47 and features many pieces based off that kit, as well as other sculptures like the one above. Via Core77.
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| Paper Circuitry: Electric Origami |  Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories comes up with another great project. This time it’s Electric Origami, and the results are really interesting and unique. It is a fairly simple technique that is very well documented on the web site.
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