My dad's an architect. He knows heaps of design-related stuff about design-related stuff.
Here's one story that tied conveniently to one of my drawings....and it's about outer space.
Design #3 Paper back
(Same idea, two different and cool effects.)
So everyone's heard of the Hubble Space telescope. (And if you haven't....quick update. 1990 they (NASA) launched an awesome telescope up into space to tell us stuff about the universe, most importantly to measure the rate at which the universe is expanding. Ground breaking stuff. Getit?)
Now, twenty-odd years later, we want bigger. And better. We want to know more. We want to see further into space. We want to know what's happening further away.
For this we need a bigger and better telescope. To assemble such a hefty thing heftier things are needed. And our rockets and shuttles can't carry that heavy stuff. So we're stuck with a major problem....or we were, until Robert Lang.
Robert Lang is a professional origami artist. And he combined science and maths and origami. Cool guy. Thanks to him, they're now busy making a new telescope with a 100m diameter lens (called an "Eyeglass") which will use origami to unfold and not that heavy machinery. His design folds this lens into 3m diameter cylinders. A camera 2km away will take photos of the images from this lens which will tell us more about space than we've ever known.
Thanks to Lang, and to origami.
This is the last step of the origami.
(If you want to know more...
