Tomohiro Tachi

If you pull it in one direction, it pulls out in other directions.

Every fold line is synchronized, and that's very useful for deployable structures.

This has been once used for folding solar panels in outer space mission.

Yes, so these geometries can be applied to more advanced engineering applications, but to come up with these patterns, we use papers as the first prototyping material.

Folding a sheet of paper is a good tool for my research in particular to come up with some new idea.

and then share some idea with others.

So fold together with my students, I can find some new research topic.

And I enjoy folding with my family.

That's my hobby part of origami.