Look closely at the natural world, and it’ll
unfold around you—literally. Take the way
plants grow and develop. They look like delicate
pieces of origami.
Yet these patterns govern more than biology.
A simple experiment proves it.
Now I have to concentrate, to fold in the
opposite direction.
Not bad! Almost perfect.
The folding pattern was created spontaneously,
without an origami artist or any sophisticated
hand folding.
It was created by the use of force and so
pure physics was able to unfold in this system.
Here’s another example.
With these crushed paper cones, we have created
an instant origami object.
It happens impulsively, within a second.
The result is striking: a logarithmic spiral—typical
of the patterns we find in nature—was formed
spontaneously by a piece of paper on a desk.
Origami appears to be woven into the textures
of our world.
