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Robert Lang folds way new origami

Modular origami Modular origami consists of putting a number of identical pieces together to form a complete model.

You can use DNA origami for that.

It ties to origami. So let me start.

So, what we've done is we've succeeded in making something much bigger than a DNA origami by combining DNA origami with tiles.

The DNA origami is a proof that that compiler actually works.

So that's four simple laws. That's all you need in origami.

It folds in thirds. It's a very simple pattern you wouldn't even call that origami.

And so we are going to use molecules and refashion this thing, rebuild everything from the bottom up, using DNA in ways that nature never intended, using DNA origami, and DNA origami to seed this algorithmic self assembly.

You get a high level description of the computer program, a high level description of the origami.

Action origami, first appearing with the traditional Japanese flapping bird, is quite common.

So, now you can say, all right, why isn't DNA origami the end of the story?

So that's DNA origami. That's one way. There are many ways of casting molecular spells using DNA.

Here is a DNA origami rectangle, and here are some tiles growing from it.

Robert Lang and Alex Bateman are two designers who use computer programs to create origami tessellations.

So now, we can use this counting to try and get at much bigger things than DNA origami could otherwise.

And if you do that, the origami's the same size, but the resulting square that you get is three times bigger.

After Robert Lang's talk on origami at TED2008, Bruno Bowden stepped onstage with a challenge he would fold one of Lang's astonishingly complicated origami figures, blindfolded, in under 2 minutes. He's accompanied by the cellist Rufus Cappadocia.

Here's the DNA origami, and what we can do is we can write 32 on both edges of the DNA origami, and we can now use our watering can and water with tiles, and we can start growing tiles off of that and create a square.

Alzheimer s disease starts when a protein that should be folded up properly misfolds into a kind of demented origami.

Most people think they know what origami is. It's this flapping birds, toys, cootie catchers, that sort of thing.

Chinese paper folding includes a style called Golden Venture Folding where large numbers of pieces are put together to make elaborate models.

But this is very promising because the origami can organize parts just one tenth the size of those in a normal computer.

It was started by Erik Winfree, and what it does, it has tiles that are a hundredth the size of a DNA origami.

So what I did, I took all those emails, and I put them together into something called Angrigami, which was an origami template made out of this sort of vile stuff.

But if we use a little computation we use origami, plus some tiles that count then we can get away with using 100, 200 or 300 DNA strands.

And in the 1990s, origami artists discovered these principles and realized we could make arbitrarily complicated figures just by packing circles.

Chris Palmer is an artist who has extensively explored tessellations after seeing the Zilij patterns in the Alhambra, and has found ways to create detailed origami tessellations out of silk.

And like this magnificent origami, cells are developing at one million cells per second at four weeks, as it's just folding on itself.

They took a DNA origami, organized some carbon nano tubes, made a little switch, you see here, wired it up, tested it and showed that it is indeed a switch.

If you look at the square that you build with the origami and some counters growing off it, the pattern that it has is exactly the pattern that you need to make a memory.

Poet Rives does 8 minutes of lyrical origami, folding history into a series of coincidences surrounding that most surreal of hours, 4 o'clock in the morning.

You can encode the number 32 in the right hand side of a DNA origami, and when you add those tiles that count, they will start to count they will read that 32 and they'll stop at 32.

So if you want to build a human from DNA origami, the problem is, you need a long strand that's 10 trillion trillion bases long.

Many of the modular origami models are decorative balls like kusudama, the technique differs though in that kusudama allows the pieces to be put together using thread or glue.

Robert Lang is a pioneer of the newest kind of origami using math and engineering principles to fold mind blowingly intricate designs that are beautiful and, sometimes, very useful.

So I came up with a new method a couple of years ago I call DNA origami that's so easy you could do it at home in your kitchen and design the stuff on a laptop.

She wrote all her own software to design and built this DNA origami, a beautiful rendition of China, which even has Taiwan, and you can see it's sort of on the world's shortest leash, right?

If we wanted to make a square of size 10, 100 or 1,000, if we used DNA origami alone, we would require a number of DNA strands that's the square of the size of that square so we'd need 100, 10,000 or a million DNA strands.

When you look at DNA origami, you can see that what it really is, even though you think it's complicated, is a bunch of double helices that are parallel to each other, and they're held together by places where short strands go along one helix and then jump to another one.

So then, we think we can do that. And my first question doing this or one of my questions doing this was how can you make an arbitrary shape or pattern out of DNA? And I decided to use a type of DNA origami, where you take a long strand of DNA and fold it into whatever shape or pattern you might want.