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Carbon is often called the backbone of life. I saw a parallel between the long series of processes a carbon atom goes through and the long sequence of folds taken by origami.

With both carbon and origami, complexity of form comes from the simplicity of a small building block, an atom or a fold, repeated and evolving to create a vast number of different objects.

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Crease forms from an unfolded origami model of a bird.

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