Karen,



People will be able to make a simple cup by looking at a step-by-step model, which vision-impaired visitors can touch and manipulate to understand how to fold their own model. Also, following a computer program, visitors can make a

cicada, crane, jumping frog, butterfly and bat.



Surrounding the origami workspace, on display is an origami "zoo" of animal models folded by several local folders, both children and adults, and by professional Dr. Robert Lang. Also, small models of "Eyeglass" are on display.  Dr. Lang helped engineer the folding pattern for Eyeglass, a 25-meter telescope lens that folds into a spacecraft only approximately 5 meters in diameter. 



Have fun at the origami convention, and thanks for getting word out about it! 



--

Suzanne Perin

Mathematics Exhibit Researcher

Museum of Life and Science

433 Murray Avenue

Durham, North Carolina 27704

919-220-5429 x352

www.ncmls.org







Date:    Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:05:39 -0400

From:    Karen Reeds <[log in to unmask]>

Subject: Flip It, Fold It, Figure It Out!  origami query



ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers

Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related

institutions.

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I'll be glad to post a notice about  Flip It, Fold It, Figure It Out!

(NC Museum of Life and Science exhibition, Durham, and beyond) on the

Origami listserve  and mention it at the Origami USA convention 2

weeks from now.



To forestall the inevitable question--what origami models do people

learn at the exhibition?



The exhibition sounds like a lot of fun!



Karen Reeds

(who promises to find a way to work origami into the Linnaeus &

America exhibition)



Karen Reeds, Ph.D.

Guest Curator, Linnaeus & America

American Swedish Historical Museum, Philadelphia

http://www.americanswedish.org/linnaeus.html



Read about our first Linnaeus Day Talk & Walk

http://citypaper.net/articles/2005-05-19/mixpicks2.shtml