Origami Master: Robert J. Lang The Science of Art .

After 15 years in the laser-optoelectronics industry, Robert Lang left his job as an engineering manager at a company in Silicon Valley to focus on writing a book on origami design.

Robert J. Lang (photo courtesy of Lang) Origami, the traditional Japanese art, existed as not much more than cranes and flowers for a couple of hundred years. Robert Lang is a physicist who worked at NASA studying lasers and has 46 patents on optoelectronics to his name.

See details about Origami Insects 2 by Robert J. Lang on Gilad's Origami Page. When it comes to technical origami designs, Origami Design Secrets by Robert Lang is a must have. The world of mathematics might seem far removed from the world of art, but mathematics both describes and enables the creation of beautiful forms. You know you’re an origami badass when The New Yorker profiles you.

Origami Design Secrets - 2nd edition by Robert J. Lang Published: 2011 by A.K Peters Pages: 770 Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-13: 9781568814360 ISBN-10: 1568814364. In this book you’ll learn all the major folds and techniques and then practice them by folding 77 different traditional models. However, that's not what he's best known for now: he's a legend in the world of origami. Year: 2018 Author(s): Robert J. Lang, Mark Bolitho, and Zhong You The fourth of four volumes of the proceedings of the 7th International Meeting on Origami in … "For a time this was the most complex origami figure around," he says. John Montroll, a dai sensei (grand master) of origami and prolific author with whom Lang has collaborated on several books, says that he's been most influenced by Lang's work "toward a deeper understanding of internal workings" of origami models. Credit: Sylvia Cerel-Suhl. Lang’s largest origami sculpture is a Pteranodon with a 14-foot wingspan on permanent display at the Redpath Museum, McGill University in Montreal, Canada. That was in 2001. Everyone Can Learn Origami is a book specifically for beginners who want to learn how to make origami. This 500+ page book is not like other origami books. His intricate designs are second to none, and they actually have applications back in engineering.

Lang first folded his Black Forest Cuckoo Clock, opus 182 in 1987 from a single 1.26- by 10.26-foot piece of paper. He has never looked back. Instead of showing you how to fold origami models, it teaches you techniques so that you can create your own models. Five-fold Two-Layer Weave, Opus 648 . Buy from: origami-shop.com Buy from: Amazon.com Buy from: Amazon.jp Check out the collection of origami book reviews and galleries of folded models. Robert J. Lang is a former NASA physicist who’s built an incredible folding portfolio of original designs, from origami Darth Vaders and Jimmy Carters (hey, it was the 70s) to tiny violin players and just about any animal or insect you can think of. Horseshoe Crab, Opus 647 . Year: 2011 Author(s): Robert J. Lang (2011) This new edition of Origami Design Secrets adds several diagrams for new models, 10 crease patterns for new designs, and new chapters on advanced box-pleating techniques, hex pleating, and polygon packing methods of origami design. Lang got hooked on origami as a small child and stuck with it.