Bill Sampson
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You're listening to Crowd Science from the BBC World Service, the show inspired by your curiosity.
corner to corner, ensuring the edges align precisely.
Crowd science listener Haruka is helping me make an origami crane over a video call from Tokyo, Japan.
Origami is a Japanese word that literally translates to paper folding.
So the paper should naturally follow the creases you made.
And this is my first attempt at it.
My kite doesn't have any flaps.
So I think I managed to do the whole thing the wrong way around then.
Okay, so I'm going to keep working on my crane.
In the meantime, I should ask you about your question.
And what made you think of this question?
Were you doing origami and it came to you?
Oh my gosh, was that really hard?
Given I can't do it in paper, I can't imagine how I would fare with a napkin.