"I made this cactus from one sheet of paper in 7 years." "Hm." "This design saved a freight company millions of dollars." "Hm." "Look at this violin guy wiggle his arm." "Fantastic!"
it's media's fault. I want these things in my recommendations and explore tab but popular media and yt keep shoving things like the Kardashians to my face
@@milanshsharma1267 not really, they show people what brings profit for anyone that is willing to pay, if any of those companies made origami designs for the general market instead of niche markets everyone one would know about it, because they would pay media to show it
@@devforfun5618 Very true. Competitive laser tag (Space Marines 5) is wayyyyyy more exciting than football, but not many people watch it so no one sponsors it, so no one sees it.
.@@huzaimahjulai7383 such a teenager deserves and needs to learn how to get that fitted sheet on by themselves so they're not totally fucked when they need their own place to look nice.
25,000 subscribers 10 Videos now imagine car and plane designs based on such concepts. Your garage is an envelope with a box you can hot-swap an engine between. Even better if we figure out ultra efficient electric motors as they will scale up/down enormously. Maybe not ideal for heavy use, but the daily commute/shop/school run? Most definitely.
I find origami that changes (as seen at 2:45, 8:12, and most importantly 8:32) much more interesting. Although I also *really*, **really** have to admire the dedication, dexterity and endurance that went to create the cactus. Its just... from a personal perspective, the cactus just seem to be a remarkable achievement, whereas the mechanism hint at so much more possibilities of what could be done! Also, I will not hesitate to use this user name for as many bad puns as possible. :-)
"You can't make a compliant mechanism that rotates 360 degrees" "Unfortunately, no one told the paper folders that" *Edit: I just find it really interesting how origami was basically a study of algebraic topology before that was even a concept, constructing complex shapes out of a contiguous plane. Origami is just one of those areas where, because the right material (paper) was available, people were able to skip all the other steps of development and just go straight to the end state.
In Derek's defense, he's replying in "hmm's" out of pure astonishment. He's beyond astonished in his mind that he has no room left to make a nice reply.
I went into surgery using the Da Vinci device for my kidneys about 6 months ago and where I would’ve had a long cut from my stomach all the way to the back of my kidney, I know have 3 tiny incisions on my stomach. It is barely noticeable and I’m glad these types of surgeries and robots are improving!
Robert Lang has been one of my favorite academics, ever, since when I first heard about his landmark achievements and saw the origami they could produce. It's as beautiful as mathematics gets in a non mathematical appearance. It reminds me of how generalizing juggling patterns into mathematical theory revealed new patterns that were unknown to jugglers at the time.
My jaw dropped when he said that it was from a single piece of paper and it dropped further when he said that he spent 7 years. Anddd I was blown away when Veritasium said Hmmm.
I envy clever people who found their path. They sure offered the humanity something - Alsadek Alkhayer, 2020. . P.S.: your comment is being reposted because it sounds like a proverb some great guy once said.
@@azice6034 You don't know in advance how the engines will be coupled together, so an engine with a nose cone on one haul might be connected backwards and sandwiched between two other engines in the next haul. Attaching and detaching a heavy metal nose cone would require heavy lifting machinery and additional coupling time and effort for every job. That's without considering that you need storage space at every rail yard to hold nose cones, as well as a complicated computer logistics system that makes sure every yard has nose cones stocked. There might be an asymmetrical count of arriving/departing trains, or maybe one day the station receives one long train with many engines and one nose cone, but dispatches two short trains each with fewer engines but two nose cones. It quickly explodes into a complicated juggling problem. It's much less complicated to attach a folding cone to all (or enough of) the engines in your network and leave it there, simply extending or retracting it as required by the train configuration.
Any dishwasher who says *MODERN ENGINEERING* has no rudimentary knowledge about any specific Branch of engineering. This origami thing would specifically apply to materials science, mechatronic and electrical mostly So Dumb
This way was a way cooler video than I thought it would be. Went into it thinking, ok some neat solar arrays and stuff, came out being absolutely mind-blown at just how impossibly practical some of these applications are. All with a bit of folding and a bunch of math. I really think this is one of those videos that you should re-title and thumbnail
Very true my father used to teach me origami when I was a child, and now I feel why he loved it, he was a mining engineering and he used to make paper models for his colleagues to show mines and different forms of stones.I am so happy I still love this art.
Robert Lang absolutely blew me away. His brevity was intense. This guy should be teaching, teaching anything. I *never* had any high school teacher or university professor even half as engaging as this guy. Just amazing
pretty sure most of that time was spent developing and researching to have the design succeed as an off-job he would do whenever. He didn't literally take 7 years he just never got around to finishing it quickly do to the difficulty, making the challenge inconsistently tackled as is reasonable.
I make art because of math, so I can be united with it. And I started with origami because of geometry, which is a major element of my work. I love math, but I have mild discalculia, meaning, I am "dyslexic" with calculating numbers. I can't calculate in my head, I always need paper or objects. But I am good in understanding the stuff around it, and I have very good spatial recognition. When you are much into music, you also have a natural grip on math, in fact, everything is math.
Being an origamist myself, I find it amazing that origami is becoming so useful in the real world. Robert Lang is amazing I actually took his class at an origami convention and saw the cactus. One of my friends actually made the cactus!
Small Japanese lesson: Paper = kami (becomes "gami" in compounds) To fold = oru (becomes "ori" in compounds) To cut = kiru (becomes "kiri" in compounds) Paper folding = oru+kami = origami Less well-known but also interesting: Paper cutting = kiru+kami = kirigami (Kirigami is kind of like a subset of origami 'cause there's still a big emphasis on folding) EDIT: Kirigami is basically what's used in popup books
i love dealing with abstraction. it's a wonderful, beautiful thing when someone can explain so cogently the bridge between the abstraction and the real.
“So I heard you have another origami invention” “Well yes I made plans to fold a working computer out of a piece of paper. It doesn’t have any internal memory yet though...” “Hmm”
@@coyotedomino in a sense, those pincers were an and gate. You need to move both sides for them to pinch, or else the whole thing would just move aside. If you used a physical barrier to prevent it from turning, you could make it an or gate where pushing either side would work.
A korean company like samsung would not stoop so low as to adopt japanese tradition and tech. Korea and Japan tend not to collaborate. It would be a very awkward situation for them politically to use origami. They have known about this for a long time. Which is a real shame, pride is not as important as progress.
You blew my mind when you showed the unfolding algorithm. That's exactly how textures in 3d models work, you unfold a 3D figure in a plain to draw on it. Really good video! 🎉
It's a bit more complicated than that, actually. The algorithm generates all the folds needed. That means that most of the surfaces you see in the pattern are gonna get hidden in the folding process. As a texture map it'd be pretty inefficent. Also, the crease pattern gives you the "stickman version" of the figure. All the actual posing to translate from "straight point" to "articulated scorpion leg/tail" is still the work of the folder. Still, Lang's algorithm is truly genius.
I will always be impressed by people that can apply their knowledges into their actions and then able to explain it to other people. It really is amazing.
I love it when science look back at traditional low tech methods. Sometimes we are too obsessed with new and complex technology when a simpler solution is right in front of us for centuries.
Low tech does not mean simple. Something as mundane as a silk weaving machine is infact Incredibly complex and well designed. But it is indeed satisfying when old inventions are combined with our new materials sciences etc.
This is not really a simple solution or low tech. It's describing the properties of certain things with math to later change them depending on the problem you want to solve. Mathematicians do that all the time
Often the method chosen is driven by other factors and priorities that tend to force a new and complex technology to be chosen over a simpler solution. Similar to the story of U.S.'s expensive NASA R&D effort to develop a pen that works in zero gravity for astronauts to use while in space. The Soviet solution was to have astronauts use a pencil.
Warren Hall the story for that was debunked. Of course NASA has used pencil. But the reason why they poured so much money into the invention/ development of a “space pen” - was because pencil were made of graphites, and prone to breaking off. A tiny sliver of graphite can cause major explosion, especially in an airtight space-craft. This was why there’s a need for a pen that can work in any environment and not create harm. Hence, don’t take any story at face value before learning the full reason why behind it.
I understand your sentiment, but hen you think about it these methods are neither traditional nor low tech. The materials and concept are simple, but the application and design are quite complex. Granted, there's nothing being done here that couldn't have been done by a traditional Japanese origami artist given enough time and paper, but there was simply no incentive for them to do so because the machinery they would have been designing this for did not exist, and many of the items being fabricated here are being built based on principles of folding and mechanics that weren't discovered until someone actually did research into them. They even demonstrated that many designs were based on variations of fundamental folding patterns that, on their own, wouldn't have produced anything of immediate artistic merit, which would have discouraged a traditional artisan from exploring them further. It took industrial need and industrial resources in order for these ideas to finally be implemented. EDIT: Case in point at 12:06... that seems pretty high-tech to me.
This reminds me of how interactions within the primary structure of proteins result in specific secondary structures that in turn lay down the instructions for a functional tertiary protein. This is amazing. Never thought of origami in this way!
They aren't working with beta sheets or conformers of beta sheets, that's for sure. (1 oligo 130 classical forms...not?) There are a few hands of theories of evolutionary fitness getting lost in the mathematics of reasonably similar conformers and turning out scarily better venoms as a liminal result.
Why do you even bother. I just stuff my underwear in the drawer unfolded. Doesn't matter because its small. I can understand folding larger items of clothing such as t-shirts and jeans because they take up more space.
I find the “army roll” works great for boxers. Really it’s great for any “tubular” piece of clothes. Heck i even use it to fold tote bags. Give it a try it can be quite relaxing to fold things :)
*sees the cactus* Me: oh I want to make that Pros: it’s uses 1 meter paper Me: I can afford that... Pros: It took seven years to complete Me: I gonna head out..
I'm sure you could do it in a day if you had a super long instructions. It probably took him 7 years trying to work it out by trial and error and his maths. I'm sure its 1 of a kind there might be other origami cactus but no 1 with them diamentions. Watching this really makes me want to do some origami now think I would try simpler things 😂. Really love that thing that keeps spinning with diffrent colours might give that ago.
Thank you so much for your channel, Veritasium. You create the opportunity for exceptional people to explain and demonstrate absolutely exhilierating things in the world to the general public. Really, thank you so much for what you do!
I'd suggest Creative Origami by Kunihiko Kasahara as a good classic starter book that gives you enough base to start exploring on your own. He sometimes breaks some rules (like ussing scissors, triangles, or glue), but it was a great stepping stone for me as a folder back in the day.
Now that is some serious material engineering ! I think I'm interested in the origami algorithm ^^ Civil Engineering, for instance, as far as I know, avoids folding material because it makes the material locally easier to fail at that fold, especially steel. But, there is a several way to increase stiffness by adding some fold or a thick "bump" in a such way, so it increases the sectional inertia. Cool cool, great work ! Great video !
What is very interesting is that the origami is not the product of a random processes. It is the product of a learned mind that can imagine an end result.
The last few years we've also seen many of those flip up and fold out story books with huge hbuildings and numerous animals inside that sometimes also have tabs to move or animate them and more simple stuff as well. It's pretty awesome how much you can get done that way, but man is it difficult to come up with often. They're pretty intense long lasting projects often.
1:57 I was like: Wow this looks really hard, it probably took many months... reality: 7 years. Oh, Okay... That really shows the level of commitment needed to make something really impressive.
now I want to see a "precursor" race in a sci-fi game/show/movie that uses origami in their designs. like imagine you walk up to a door and it folds away into the walls almost seamlessly and as you walk in the lights fold out, consoles fold out, the door returns to where it was every part of the room seems to hold some alternate aspect to you just have to get it to fold out into a new orientation. another idea is you arrive at what was believed to be some derelict ship only for it to fold out to it's full size as you approach or parts of this damaged ship are stuck midway through folding out/in. I would love it.
@@leeshepard5718 “that” (それ) is referring to “I’m surprised to see origami’s application on a global scale” part of the original comment. Not the culture itself.
I wanted to buy it but I wasn't quite sure what to expect. Would it be a sufficient introduction to the art of origami for a complete noob in this regard?
@@sumaiyaqureshi662 Yes - I think so. You may need to study the first couple of chapters a little closer, as it reads like a text book instead of your typical beginner origami art book.
I've spent well over half my life doing origami.... now I'm studying electrical engineering... possibly switching to mechatronics (combination of electrical and mechanical engineering). I hope to use origami well into the future.
I was inspired by this episode to write a 18,393 word thesis on the predictable nature of vertex compromised 2 dimensional collapsible space and present it for you here in the following orgamized format. •
Both are expressions of reality. Art expresses the imagination. What could be. Science tries to make what is imagined into a present reality. What will, is, or should be.
@@vgman94 which means the use of imagination to fuel science is one if not the best method humans can progress. (I mean, just look at every famous and revolutionary inventor ever)
I can do 2 kinds of flapping bird, boxes, simple animals but I practically wept when I saw how intricate these models were. I sort of knew about the solar-cell deployment, but using origami techniques for surgical procedures - just wow!!! Oh, and the patience of these people... sheer genius, thank you for showing us!
I referred to your video in my homeschool co- op class today. The 10 to 12 year olds were glued to my every word when I jumped from folding a cup to talking about unfolding a solar panel in outer space.
Lol However, It may sound hillarious but that's actually how something becomes innovative and changes the way we do things. It takes people that does something we all think sounds ridiculous or can't even imagine :v
Hey, I like that you're actually showing what you read on Audible. Most times I just breeze past the promos because they all sound the same. Nice to know you use the products you share with us.
"I made an origami cactus"
"What did it cost?"
"Everything"
Everything?
@@herrpauk He is a water snake, they live 7 years... so yeah everything aka "lifetime"
@@herrpauk 7 years 😂😂
😂his hands were literally shaking😂
@@JAKOB1977
Water snake?
"I made this cactus from one sheet of paper in 7 years."
"Hm."
"This design saved a freight company millions of dollars."
"Hm."
"Look at this violin guy wiggle his arm."
"Fantastic!"
🤦♂️😂😂😂
Sounds bs
X Factor in a nutshell
Exactly what I thought about his reaction! 😂
Hm
Watching this just reminds me, how many really smart people doing their thing without even us being aware........
it's media's fault. I want these things in my recommendations and explore tab but popular media and yt keep shoving things like the Kardashians to my face
@@JohnDoe-xx7kc media shows what ppl want to see
Remember all you people you called "nerds" in school?
Well guess what ?
@@milanshsharma1267 not really, they show people what brings profit for anyone that is willing to pay, if any of those companies made origami designs for the general market instead of niche markets everyone one would know about it, because they would pay media to show it
@@devforfun5618 Very true. Competitive laser tag (Space Marines 5) is wayyyyyy more exciting than football, but not many people watch it so no one sponsors it, so no one sees it.
I'm just imagining that one day I'll be able to, in a fit of rage, unfold someone's entire house.
Imagine you are a teenager and your mom is mad so she just folds up your mobile and comics 😂
A teenager just wants the mom to come into the otherwise can't-you-see-it-says-strictly-no-entry room to help fold the impossible fitted bedsheet
Oh wow lol
You're describing what's called a "tent." 😂
.@@huzaimahjulai7383 such a teenager deserves and needs to learn how to get that fitted sheet on by themselves so they're not totally fucked when they need their own place to look nice.
Talk about smart people on earth. It is so pleasing and satisfying to watch. Thank you, I am so sharing it.
You should check out my first 2 videos
Yeah, it's absolutely hypnotic.
Watching an origami structure collapse into itself is, to our eyes, what a soft whispery ASMR is to the ears.
I'm happy I found this channel in Quarantine
Where else would they be?
@@ahnrho search up Origami flasher Big Bang by Jeremy Shafer
1900: you can make a dinosaur with origami
2050: your whole house is origami and comes in a box
With the box beimg the size of a small laptop
25,000 subscribers 10 Videos now imagine car and plane designs based on such concepts.
Your garage is an envelope with a box you can hot-swap an engine between. Even better if we figure out ultra efficient electric motors as they will scale up/down enormously.
Maybe not ideal for heavy use, but the daily commute/shop/school run? Most definitely.
I think I saw a design for a portable origami style house online years ago. Don't remember if it was just a concept or for $ale.
🌊
2120: Origami Spaceship can now travel in light speed
...and it can crush you and your family with a button, so of course in response to that by 2060 we are all origami.
Is no one going to talk about how absolutely mind-blowing the cactus origami is
Well anything that takes 7 years of conscious effort would look mind-blowing
Yeah, thats incredible! My mind was blown when he said 7 YEARS! I was thinking weeks or months.
@@simontay4851 Yeah I was all impressed but thinking, okay here comes the "How long did it take"
7 years!
I find origami that changes (as seen at 2:45, 8:12, and most importantly 8:32) much more interesting.
Although I also *really*, **really** have to admire the dedication, dexterity and endurance that went to create the cactus.
Its just... from a personal perspective, the cactus just seem to be a remarkable achievement, whereas the mechanism hint at so much more possibilities of what could be done!
Also, I will not hesitate to use this user name for as many bad puns as possible. :-)
子どもの頃なんとなく折り紙で遊んできた。
大人になり日本の折り紙の技術はすごいと気づいた。
今も突き詰めて、凄い物を作ってる人はいる。
日本ではおそらく応用する人がいなかった、知らないだけでいるかもしれないけど。
海外の方が日本の折り紙に着目してこんな形で応用して発展させるとは。
折り紙の可能性を感じた。
"You can't make a compliant mechanism that rotates 360 degrees"
"Unfortunately, no one told the paper folders that"
*Edit: I just find it really interesting how origami was basically a study of algebraic topology before that was even a concept, constructing complex shapes out of a contiguous plane. Origami is just one of those areas where, because the right material (paper) was available, people were able to skip all the other steps of development and just go straight to the end state.
*looks at ball bearings
Well then how about MY FRIENDS NECK!
@@pixelmace1423 *snap*
The best bearing is one where there is No contact. Air pressure can act as a bearing too. Won't work for vacuum however.
@@joshbrock2663 Ball bearings have no compliant solid state materials. They are gears.
I've never wanted to touch a cactus more.
It's like a normal cactus but with papercuts too.
Paige no!
It'll quench ya..
no touchy no touchy
@@alphaadhito It's the quenchiest
Guy: I made an origami human
Veritasium: hmm
Pygmalion
Veritasium: Wait is his playing a violin? WHOA!
Hmm
In Derek's defense, he's replying in "hmm's" out of pure astonishment.
He's beyond astonished in his mind that he has no room left to make a nice reply.
This is how I imagine the future; simple but complex.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication
Its harder to do more with less.
or simply complex
simplex
That is Origami.
Owen Wilson : "WOW"
Veritasium : Hold my "Hmmph"
wrg, say any nmw s ok
@@zes3813 how to answer in millennial
underrated?
“7 years” as he puts it back in its box
Gotta protect it
He bought it that was amazon tape.
@@jesusmejia1334 ahem.. You mean flex tape right?
Waste of time
@@Argaitlam You can now say all of art is a waste of time
That smallest origami bird you guys showed , i haven't been more amazed in my last 10 years.
bro what happened 10 years ago
Trust me, it's there.
"In all my 10 years, never have seen such pestilence, such disregard, such decay!"
I went into surgery using the Da Vinci device for my kidneys about 6 months ago and where I would’ve had a long cut from my stomach all the way to the back of my kidney, I know have 3 tiny incisions on my stomach. It is barely noticeable and I’m glad these types of surgeries and robots are improving!
Bet they're expensive.
How much did you pay?
Shiva Cruz roughly $6000
DavyJones yea, they are pretty expensive
“We were working with the people who did the DaVinci surgical robot...”
angry Michael reeves noises
I’m Japanese and I don’t know how useful my culture origami is abroad.
So I’m glad that it is introduced in this video.
bro Japanese people are legend love from Bangladesh
Thanks for culture contribution to the university
4:46
"Those are actually bullets that have been stopped by origami"
- "hm."
Its actually old at this point I think 5years or 6
It's almost comedic xdddd
666likes hmmm
小さい頃は何気なく遊んでいた折り紙、大人になって改めて考えてみると紙一枚でさまざまなものを表現出来るってすごいことですね
Robert Lang has been one of my favorite academics, ever, since when I first heard about his landmark achievements and saw the origami they could produce. It's as beautiful as mathematics gets in a non mathematical appearance. It reminds me of how generalizing juggling patterns into mathematical theory revealed new patterns that were unknown to jugglers at the time.
Guy: “Nice day today.”
Veritasium: “hmm.”
Michael: But what is... a "nice day"?
My jaw dropped when he said that it was from a single piece of paper and it dropped further when he said that he spent 7 years. Anddd I was blown away when Veritasium said Hmmm.
@@varunjaihind3904 Me too. He says so much hum now
Not "hmm" but more like "hegh"
varun jaihind he said “WOW" after Robert told him it took him 7 years
I envy clever people who found their path. They sure offered the humanity something
I envy clever people who found their path. They sure offered the humanity something
I envy clever people who found their path. They sure offered the humanity something
Why is my comment being reposted?
I envy clever people who found their path. They sure offered the humanity something
- Alsadek Alkhayer, 2020.
.
P.S.: your comment is being reposted because it sounds like a proverb some great guy once said.
@@SiddheshBagade wow, now I'm flattered, thanks Seddhesh Bagade! ☺️🙏🏻
I graduated in mechanical engineering over 60 years ago from a good school. This origami stuff makes me feel like a Neandertaler. Amazing stuff !
Go back to school to learn all the new stuff! Or just sit in the classes. Ask the professor before hand, theyre usually really cool about it.
Neandler never existed
@@aronious291 My i randomly recommend some more Science-Channels?
@@slevinchannel7589 yes please
@@aronious291 no school is teaching that.
All they are teaching is theory, even in engineering xD
Scientist/Engineer: **Intelligent demonstration**
Veritasium: **Minecraft Villager noises**
xbox grunts
Yeah, he's kind of a dunce.
He's doing it for us. It wouldn't be as accessible if it weren't for these essential questions he asks. ;P
@@WingofTech that's a loooot of credit you're giving him lol.
@@Mezuzah87 I mean what are his credentials? He's not a big channel for no reason. He knows what's good.
“This could save a company multiple millions of dollars a year on diesel” is pretty revolutionary... and yet Veritasium only says “hmmm!”
To be fair, his mind was already blown years ago.
because the percentage matters too
How exactly is the origami version better than a regular version?
@@azice6034 You don't know in advance how the engines will be coupled together, so an engine with a nose cone on one haul might be connected backwards and sandwiched between two other engines in the next haul. Attaching and detaching a heavy metal nose cone would require heavy lifting machinery and additional coupling time and effort for every job. That's without considering that you need storage space at every rail yard to hold nose cones, as well as a complicated computer logistics system that makes sure every yard has nose cones stocked. There might be an asymmetrical count of arriving/departing trains, or maybe one day the station receives one long train with many engines and one nose cone, but dispatches two short trains each with fewer engines but two nose cones. It quickly explodes into a complicated juggling problem. It's much less complicated to attach a folding cone to all (or enough of) the engines in your network and leave it there, simply extending or retracting it as required by the train configuration.
Any dishwasher who says
*MODERN ENGINEERING*
has no rudimentary knowledge about any specific Branch of engineering.
This origami thing would specifically apply to materials science, mechatronic and electrical mostly
So Dumb
This way was a way cooler video than I thought it would be. Went into it thinking, ok some neat solar arrays and stuff, came out being absolutely mind-blown at just how impossibly practical some of these applications are. All with a bit of folding and a bunch of math.
I really think this is one of those videos that you should re-title and thumbnail
伝統文化がこんな風に最新技術として応用されるのは素敵な事だと思う。
Poruno with a schooroogirsu watching desu?
I agree.
本当にそう思う
You're telling me my obsession with origami as a kid wasn't all for nothing
Im still obsessed
@@Palladiumavoid Wasnt there an Anime about this Concept?
1 with a Great Start and a Laughably Bad Ending?
No obsession is for nothing if you apply yourself properly.
Very true my father used to teach me origami when I was a child, and now I feel why he loved it, he was a mining engineering and he used to make paper models for his colleagues to show mines and different forms of stones.I am so happy I still love this art.
Its still nothing if you never find it useful
12:22 also i adore when professionals are actually able to explain something in such simple terms! thanks so much! :D
nuazka - that’s how you know someone is truly knowledgeable about something.
I really like it when two things so different collide to create something useful
* Veritusium looks out window & sees the apocalypse happening *
"hmmm"
@@johannesstaats9698 no
This aged well
*little paper man playing violin*
"Fantastic!"
@@joeynavarro6762 *really nicely*
hmmm.
Robert Lang absolutely blew me away. His brevity was intense. This guy should be teaching, teaching anything. I *never* had any high school teacher or university professor even half as engaging as this guy. Just amazing
Hmm
Clive W 😂😂😂
Who
Y'all ever just like... Spend 7 years making an origami cactus
Internet Relics why
pretty sure most of that time was spent developing and researching to have the design succeed as an off-job he would do whenever. He didn't literally take 7 years he just never got around to finishing it quickly do to the difficulty, making the challenge inconsistently tackled as is reasonable.
Those 7 years were probably working on it off and on, while doing other stuff and projects also.
That sounds soooooo boring lol
Wait... you're telling me you _don't?_
Weirdo...
as a 15 year old artist that loves architect and engineering this is really fascinating
Architecture
@@nosrac95 He didnt say he enjoyed english now did he?
@@nosrac95 I love an architect too
I am staggered. All the science AND Robert Lang himself explaining crease patterns and origami design? what a treasure!
Scientist: *says something interesting and revolutionary*
Veritasium: Huh
That violinist tho
Heh, huh
The expert: kaleidocycle
Me, an intellectual: hexaflexagon
Underrated comment...
Yeet Vi Hart!
I noticed the hexaflexagon before I noticed the hmmms
oh yes justice for trihexaflexagon
Storyspren yessssssss
As an origamist wanting to be an engineer when I grow up, I appreciate this
I learned how to do a crane today, on the road to that engineering PHD
@@pandabear8862 Cool. JeremyShaferOrigami has some great tutorials, if you want to check him out
Wow hope ur progressing
Me : *doing art to escape from math
Dr. Robert : origami is a math
Me : *oh crap
Hahaha Math is omnipresent. Btw I'm surprised that a art major is watching Veritasium.
Math is universal, it's the key to everything.
@@prithishs4186 Yt recommendation are pretty random sometimes
I make art because of math, so I can be united with it.
And I started with origami because of geometry, which is a major element of my work.
I love math, but I have mild discalculia, meaning, I am "dyslexic" with calculating numbers.
I can't calculate in my head, I always need paper or objects.
But I am good in understanding the stuff around it, and I have very good spatial recognition.
When you are much into music, you also have a natural grip on math, in fact, everything is math.
Math : you could not live with your own failures. Where did that bring you. Back to me
Veritasium hits 10 Million subs.
Veritasium: "hmm."
So many satisfying clips in this video!
I thought so!
Veritasium Great video as usual!
@@veritasium dude, I want a heart.
@@keahibailey2646 if you ask for it, you ain't gonna get it bud
@Alexander Supertramp
Working on it
Him: you wont use a microscopic flapping bird for anything
Me: my goals are beyond your understanding
*proceeds to make miniature irl flappy bird
Fly my little spies, fly !
Being an origamist myself, I find it amazing that origami is becoming so useful in the real world. Robert Lang is amazing I actually took his class at an origami convention and saw the cactus. One of my friends actually made the cactus!
How long did it take your friend to complete the cactus?
Yeah how long does the cactus take
Maks Mamla took him 20-30 hours but he still has 5-10 hours left of shaping. Very labor intensive process
@@origamiorange4539 that's wild, I wish him luck
7 years likely included the design processes and iterations
Small Japanese lesson:
Paper = kami (becomes "gami" in compounds)
To fold = oru (becomes "ori" in compounds)
To cut = kiru (becomes "kiri" in compounds)
Paper folding = oru+kami = origami
Less well-known but also interesting:
Paper cutting = kiru+kami = kirigami
(Kirigami is kind of like a subset of origami 'cause there's still a big emphasis on folding)
EDIT: Kirigami is basically what's used in popup books
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Ah... now I see how shinigami comes from kami (god).
@@DrewLSsix
gami in shinigami is 神 (god)
gami in origami is 紙 (paper)
unrelated
What's all this hair talk?
@@invluo3219 a lot of anime use this for their pun name
When you want to be a artist but your parents want you to be an engineer
underrated comment
Why not both
@Ash The Bird ITS CALLED A JOKE
@@w花b correct
Hakk
i love dealing with abstraction. it's a wonderful, beautiful thing when someone can explain so cogently the bridge between the abstraction and the real.
Robert Lang!
I was given one of his books by one of my teachers 24 years ago because I was interested in origami. I still have it.
the lang rose i'ts just perfect...
Can you make anything like that?
Can you please send me a link of pictures of different pages?
“So I heard you have another origami invention”
“Well yes I made plans to fold a working computer out of a piece of paper. It doesn’t have any internal memory yet though...”
“Hmm”
That’s actually an interesting thought. How could one make logic gates out of origami...
@@coyotedomino in a sense, those pincers were an and gate. You need to move both sides for them to pinch, or else the whole thing would just move aside. If you used a physical barrier to prevent it from turning, you could make it an or gate where pushing either side would work.
A key board mechanism could be easily made via origami engineering, laptop hinges might under go an origami revolution too.
Samsung Fold engineers: 'Write that down, write that down!'
Thats funny
That is indeed funny
A korean company like samsung would not stoop so low as to adopt japanese tradition and tech. Korea and Japan tend not to collaborate. It would be a very awkward situation for them politically to use origami. They have known about this for a long time. Which is a real shame, pride is not as important as progress.
@@asiansupport630 dude chill, it's a joke
@@TheKing-hr7uh didnt it sell out, despite the technical issues?
I could listen all day long to people like Mr. Lang that are so enthusiastic about a subject and can explain complex things so well.
You blew my mind when you showed the unfolding algorithm. That's exactly how textures in 3d models work, you unfold a 3D figure in a plain to draw on it.
Really good video! 🎉
juampy varela Well, we are a video game aren’t we?
It's a bit more complicated than that, actually. The algorithm generates all the folds needed. That means that most of the surfaces you see in the pattern are gonna get hidden in the folding process. As a texture map it'd be pretty inefficent.
Also, the crease pattern gives you the "stickman version" of the figure. All the actual posing to translate from "straight point" to "articulated scorpion leg/tail" is still the work of the folder.
Still, Lang's algorithm is truly genius.
Except that origami is like texture unwrap with zero seams allowed and no strecthing either.
I will always be impressed by people that can apply their knowledges into their actions and then able to explain it to other people.
It really is amazing.
I love it when science look back at traditional low tech methods. Sometimes we are too obsessed with new and complex technology when a simpler solution is right in front of us for centuries.
Low tech does not mean simple. Something as mundane as a silk weaving machine is infact Incredibly complex and well designed. But it is indeed satisfying when old inventions are combined with our new materials sciences etc.
This is not really a simple solution or low tech. It's describing the properties of certain things with math to later change them depending on the problem you want to solve. Mathematicians do that all the time
Often the method chosen is driven by other factors and priorities that tend to force a new and complex technology to be chosen over a simpler solution. Similar to the story of U.S.'s expensive NASA R&D effort to develop a pen that works in zero gravity for astronauts to use while in space. The Soviet solution was to have astronauts use a pencil.
Warren Hall the story for that was debunked. Of course NASA has used pencil. But the reason why they poured so much money into the invention/ development of a “space pen” - was because pencil were made of graphites, and prone to breaking off. A tiny sliver of graphite can cause major explosion, especially in an airtight space-craft. This was why there’s a need for a pen that can work in any environment and not create harm.
Hence, don’t take any story at face value before learning the full reason why behind it.
I understand your sentiment, but hen you think about it these methods are neither traditional nor low tech. The materials and concept are simple, but the application and design are quite complex. Granted, there's nothing being done here that couldn't have been done by a traditional Japanese origami artist given enough time and paper, but there was simply no incentive for them to do so because the machinery they would have been designing this for did not exist, and many of the items being fabricated here are being built based on principles of folding and mechanics that weren't discovered until someone actually did research into them. They even demonstrated that many designs were based on variations of fundamental folding patterns that, on their own, wouldn't have produced anything of immediate artistic merit, which would have discouraged a traditional artisan from exploring them further. It took industrial need and industrial resources in order for these ideas to finally be implemented.
EDIT: Case in point at 12:06... that seems pretty high-tech to me.
One of the most interesting videos on your channel dude. Such a basic thing folding is but look at how it unlocks so much.
Him: A caleidocycle
Me, an intellectual: hexaflexagon
Hexaflexagon is the 2D version
@@StuartHector r/wooosh
me, channelling big brain energy:
*rInG oF rOtAtInG rHoMbIc TeTrAhEdRa*
@@meghanstrudwick4100 absolutely big brain
@@smellyeggs8435 no
I love how this channel gets consistently better with each video.
This reminds me of how interactions within the primary structure of proteins result in specific secondary structures that in turn lay down the instructions for a functional tertiary protein. This is amazing. Never thought of origami in this way!
Hmm
They aren't working with beta sheets or conformers of beta sheets, that's for sure. (1 oligo 130 classical forms...not?) There are a few hands of theories of evolutionary fitness getting lost in the mathematics of reasonably similar conformers and turning out scarily better venoms as a liminal result.
It reminds me of the tertiary dihedral of the monatomic inertial prisms.
Yeah I have no idea what you said lol.
@@Cineenvenordquist 😮
Totally, like how protiens walk inside a cell, its mechanical and super simple
this has to become a major field in structural engineering .. it is amazing
Someone says a profound mechanical innovation:
Veritasium: Mmm
hm!
"Millions of dollars a year!"
Veritasium: Mmm
@@gracefool wait a minute are you the same gracefool that moderates the xisumavoid server or is it just an insane coincidence?
"Dude i slept with your wife"
Veritasium: Mmm
@@enricobianchi4499 coincidence, I didn't know there was anyone else with my alias, I've used it for 17 years
This is like magic to me. I can't even fold my underwear to be able to fit in my dresser drawer.
Why do you even bother. I just stuff my underwear in the drawer unfolded. Doesn't matter because its small. I can understand folding larger items of clothing such as t-shirts and jeans because they take up more space.
No problem. Just wear the same underwear for a couple of weeks and then you can stand it up. No need to fold.
Why do you wear underwear? Just go commando
@@keahibailey2646 bruh
you're an genus, congratulashawns
I find the “army roll” works great for boxers. Really it’s great for any “tubular” piece of clothes. Heck i even use it to fold tote bags.
Give it a try it can be quite relaxing to fold things :)
I am impressed by the guy(s) who folded these. such a precision and praiseworthy patience.
*sees the cactus*
Me: oh I want to make that
Pros: it’s uses 1 meter paper
Me: I can afford that...
Pros: It took seven years to complete
Me: I gonna head out..
Jack grg he had to design it from zero. If you have the solution, you can fold it faster.
I'm sure you could do it in a day if you had a super long instructions. It probably took him 7 years trying to work it out by trial and error and his maths. I'm sure its 1 of a kind there might be other origami cactus but no 1 with them diamentions. Watching this really makes me want to do some origami now think I would try simpler things 😂. Really love that thing that keeps spinning with diffrent colours might give that ago.
_it's uses_
10/10 English lmao
Btw, check your grammar.
@Moon Base You forgot the fact that I do both.
Thank you so much for your channel, Veritasium. You create the opportunity for exceptional people to explain and demonstrate absolutely exhilierating things in the world to the general public. Really, thank you so much for what you do!
Man.. thank you! Really. We would have never known this stuff without your channel.
ME: all excited about trying origami
Brain: did he say math
Math is fun.
@@9308323 Not when you don't know it!
I'd suggest Creative Origami by Kunihiko Kasahara as a good classic starter book that gives you enough base to start exploring on your own.
He sometimes breaks some rules (like ussing scissors, triangles, or glue), but it was a great stepping stone for me as a folder back in the day.
@@soulextracter
That goes basically for everything.
"There are only a handfull of paterns in japan, maybe 100, 200 total"
How big are this guys hands??
F maybe they’re microscopic designs lol
I mean Idk how small your hands are but I can certainly fit 200 sheets of paper in my hand
@@patrick1532 you know he talked about 1x1m papers right?
@@user-uq8nl7mt6r woooosh
@@user-uq8nl7mt6r r/woosh
Something: is compliant
Veritasium: TARGET LOCATED
*how paint dries*
Now we just have to create a folding pipe that allows laminar flow and destin and derek will both be all over it.
Now that is some serious material engineering ! I think I'm interested in the origami algorithm ^^
Civil Engineering, for instance, as far as I know, avoids folding material because it makes the material locally easier to fail at that fold, especially steel.
But, there is a several way to increase stiffness by adding some fold or a thick "bump" in a such way, so it increases the sectional inertia.
Cool cool, great work ! Great video !
Civil engineering? Oh man, the stress! Stresses everywhere, any which way you go!
I don’t like to throw the word, “genius,” around lightly, but I’m convinced solely from this video that Robert Lang is a genius.
no u
as an aerobic life form, he’s breathtaking
If you delve further into his works, you'll find more genius
Ah, the Compliant Mechanisms professor! Great stuff!
Those folding patterns remind me of protein structures. I wonder if any of these concepts have been applied to organic chemistry.
Anonymous?
Yes! Look into the work of Erik Demaine.
Heck ya
@@ericdufrane2344 Yup, life is in a way, replicating itself using origami. DNA is sort of the crease pattern.
What is very interesting is that the origami is not the product of a random processes. It is the product of a learned mind that can imagine an end result.
The last few years we've also seen many of those flip up and fold out story books with huge hbuildings and numerous animals inside that sometimes also have tabs to move or animate them and more simple stuff as well.
It's pretty awesome how much you can get done that way, but man is it difficult to come up with often. They're pretty intense long lasting projects often.
YOU'VE MET ROBERT LANG?!
hahaha he lives not far from my house...
@@veritasium HE LIVES *NOT FAR* FROM YOUR HOUSE?
But how far is "not far"? Not far can be an hours drive or more in the US.
I met him once 5 years ago at a small origami convention in Ohio. It was really, really cool.
@@user-ep1hp7vj6p 100 what?
1:57 I was like: Wow this looks really hard, it probably took many months...
reality: 7 years.
Oh, Okay...
That really shows the level of commitment needed to make something really impressive.
I thought it was like 45 min
now I want to see a "precursor" race in a sci-fi game/show/movie that uses origami in their designs. like imagine you walk up to a door and it folds away into the walls almost seamlessly and as you walk in the lights fold out, consoles fold out, the door returns to where it was every part of the room seems to hold some alternate aspect to you just have to get it to fold out into a new orientation. another idea is you arrive at what was believed to be some derelict ship only for it to fold out to it's full size as you approach or parts of this damaged ship are stuck midway through folding out/in. I would love it.
The room : S T O N K S
折り紙が世界で活躍してるのは驚きだし嬉しい
Me too!
それを知らない日本人って残念
@@cielo_ciel_ what do you mean? why wouldn't people in Japan know their own culture?
@@leeshepard5718 “that” (それ) is referring to “I’m surprised to see origami’s application on a global scale” part of the original comment. Not the culture itself.
"Hm." My man's about to grow a huge nose and start trading emeralds.
@@w1therrrrarchive5 lol
@@w1therrrrarchive5 you too
@@unrealpigzgaming8014 lol
was gonna play MC after this video lol
Oh- I love this. I bought Robert Lang's book a few years ago. It is by far the best reference I've ever had on Origami models.
I wanted to buy it but I wasn't quite sure what to expect. Would it be a sufficient introduction to the art of origami for a complete noob in this regard?
@@sumaiyaqureshi662 Yes - I think so. You may need to study the first couple of chapters a little closer, as it reads like a text book instead of your typical beginner origami art book.
One word: Impressive. Truly impressive - I am awestruck at the ingenuity, creativity and effort involved!
I've spent well over half my life doing origami.... now I'm studying electrical engineering... possibly switching to mechatronics (combination of electrical and mechanical engineering). I hope to use origami well into the future.
I was inspired by this episode to write a 18,393 word thesis on the predictable nature of vertex compromised 2 dimensional collapsible space and present it for you here in the following orgamized format.
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Veritasium when he sees this comment- 'hmmm'
@@ms.RuKiGold Derek, Derek you uncultured swine!
😂 That's genius
No one
Robert Lang: folds himself to into the fourth dimension
No one:
My mathematical side looking to my peen after reading this comment:E X T E N D
Wait... super paper mario?
@@KoopahPlaysMinecraft always has been *snaps with origami gauntlet*
@@KoopahPlaysMinecraft are you familiar with the tragedy of Dave Matthews the wise
It’s like art and science were separated at birth.
Yeah, but they complete each other!!
Both are expressions of reality. Art expresses the imagination. What could be. Science tries to make what is imagined into a present reality. What will, is, or should be.
@@vgman94 which means the use of imagination to fuel science is one if not the best method humans can progress. (I mean, just look at every famous and revolutionary inventor ever)
If you want a cool example of art and science being mixed, look at some of Robert McCalls work.
The technology becomes beautiful when several branches of human creativity comes together.
I can do 2 kinds of flapping bird, boxes, simple animals but I practically wept when I saw how intricate these models were. I sort of knew about the solar-cell deployment, but using origami techniques for surgical procedures - just wow!!! Oh, and the patience of these people... sheer genius, thank you for showing us!
Scientist: So here's the cure for cancer.
Veritasium: Hunh
Mum : What is your job, son?
Me after graduated PhD in physic and mathematics,
: I fold paper
I really like that infinity colored foldy thingy
16:03
Anyone: **says anything that's incredibly astounding**
Veritasium: "Hmm..."
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
That was one of the most impressive videos I’ve seen. I love it when art and science mix
This is by far my favorite episode of Veritasium.
I referred to your video in my homeschool co- op class today. The 10 to 12 year olds were glued to my every word when I jumped from folding a cup to talking about unfolding a solar panel in outer space.
"I got a degree in physics!
Oh nice, and what are you gonna do with it?
Origami!"
That guy quit a NASA job for origami that mad lad
Lol However, It may sound hillarious but that's actually how something becomes innovative and changes the way we do things. It takes people that does something we all think sounds ridiculous or can't even imagine :v
I heard working in NASA isn't that interesting as you thought, a single line change to source code requiring a bunch of managers' approval.
My brain at 3:43 :
"Aperture Science:
We do what we must
because we can" 🎵
#PortalNeverDies
@@Mono_Autophobic i want vr portal game, imagine how trippy it would be
@@crimsonkarma13 there is vr portal
@@tobbvida5601 ain't that just a demo with the fingers function last I checked
The “continuously revolving complaint mechanism” at 8:00 is also known as a “hexaflexagon.” There are many tutorials out there if anyone is wondering.
I'm glad there are people in the world this talented and smart. I can't imagine being able to do anything in this video
Hey, I like that you're actually showing what you read on Audible. Most times I just breeze past the promos because they all sound the same. Nice to know you use the products you share with us.
"and this is a light assembled wormhole origami"
"hmm..."
All I can say is: holy sheet!
too plain
OH MY GOHD
hmm
@Kartik Sharma i don’t think it was a jojoke but KONO DIO DA!
@@xtdycxtfuv9353 If it wasnt a JoJoke, then its got to be the work of an enemy stand