 Satoshi Kamiya, origami savant
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Apr. 5th, 2007 @ 08:01 am 
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The magazine Muse finds its way to our house each month, and this month it has a story on extreme origami. It talks about two people: Robert Lang, who created a computer program that would develop very complicated origami creations, and Satoshi Kamiya (Japanese name order would be Kamiya Satoshi), who does it all in his head.
He created this from his own imagination:
It's made from a single piece of paper, with no cutting.
In Muse, it said they asked him how he thought up such complex things:
Asked how he manages to create something so complicated without the help of a computer, Kamiya pauses to consider. "I see it finished," he says finally. "And then"--he stares off, as though visualizing the imaginary object--"I unfold it. In my mind. One piece at a time." Jennifer Kahn, "The War of the Origami Bugs," Muse 11, no. 4 (April 2007): 10.
Amazing.
here is a gallery of other creations by him.I feel...:  curious I hear...: NPR: Morning Edition |
WOW!
There was an article about (I think) Lang in The New Yorker a few weeks ago.
ANd there used to be an origami museum in mass but it closed :(
That's funny that there was an article in the New Yorker recently too--it's as if something enters the mass journalistic consciousness and then there are a flurry of stories on the theme.
Too bad about the origami museum! Same with the comic book museum--but at least I got to visit that before it closed...
Cool, thank you for this link and also the one about the comic books! Your building is very interesting--but I already knew that :-)
I like that he has it all in his head. Now there's a brain I'd like to visit, if I could be a brain-visiting alien spirit.
I'd also like to visit the brain of someone who composes music...
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April 5th, 2007 03:46 pm (UTC) |
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Incredible, incredible, incredible. The link your post is going to be my next post. I think I should just have a kind of permanent link on my post to yours, you come up with so much interesting stuff.
Origami is SO wonderful. I reached the limit of my abilities with the ball that can be gently puffed up by blowing into it.
How on EARTH does one unfold that dragon bit by bit????
What is it in one person's brain that can permit him to create something like this and another person (me) can't fold the newspaper properly before putting it in yesterday's pile?
How on EARTH does one unfold that dragon bit by bit????
You've got me! I wish I knew. That there are people who can do such a thing makes me realize, yet again, just how varied and marvelous the human species is.
My origami is pretty much limited to the paper crane!
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April 5th, 2007 06:38 pm (UTC) |
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awesome !!! what a beautiful mind he has !!
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April 5th, 2007 09:31 pm (UTC) |
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Wow.... Amazing..
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I hope my mom does not see this.. She's always complaining that I don't fold my sheets right..
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April 6th, 2007 06:34 am (UTC) |
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Re: Wow.... Amazing..
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Haha! Yeah, I get after my kids to fold their clothes. Now you've given me inspiration,
"Why can't you fold your clothes! It's not like I'm asking you to fold an origami dragon or anything!"
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| From: | beast_666 |
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April 6th, 2007 05:33 pm (UTC) |
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Re: Umm..Well..
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Sure..But don't tell your kids it was MY idea..
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April 6th, 2007 04:45 am (UTC) |
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For that facility with paper, he should be called Kami no Satoshi..or does Kamiya mean the same thing, "of paper"?
Sorry to be so late in responding!
In Japanese "Kami" can mean "paper" but also "god" or "hair" depending on the character used. In his case, "Kamiya" is written with the the characters "god" and "valley"
He is the origami god who dwells in a valley?
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| From: | seuzen |
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April 6th, 2007 10:52 am (UTC) |
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cool...
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and did you take a look at the www.origami.as website...there's a link to an article in the vancouver sun about his road to origami success....this kind of thing fascinates/bewilders me...
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April 6th, 2007 01:31 pm (UTC) |
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No--I have to go back and look. Just a mind that can think like that amazes me. They had a story on NPR this morning about how odd it is that dogs come in so many really different sizes, when most species don't have such a range--but to me the differences in how people think are just as amazing....
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| From: | seuzen |
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April 6th, 2007 03:06 pm (UTC) |
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yes, i agree, i've just started reading daniel tammet's book and really the differences in people's brains have to be more notable than the sizes of dogs, right?
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April 6th, 2007 04:02 pm (UTC) |
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yup--and I get that book after you, right :-D
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April 8th, 2007 03:13 am (UTC) |
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"Somewhere deep inside my head I'm probably doing a lot of these analyses. But when I decide I want to design something, I'll do some research on the shape and the form, and I'll decide how I want these shapes to look. And from that point, it takes about a minute for the finished form to appear in my head, but it's not tangible. "I still actually have to pick up a piece of paper and start working through it. It's very fluid at that point: I start with a square [piece of paper] and I know where it's going to end up, and then the process is just to figure out how to get there. But the actual design process has actually happened in that first minute." [That's Joseph Wu talking with Michael Scott, found by following seuzen's pointer to Wu's site]What has always intrigued me is the process whereby we do things in our subconscious, as it were. Load up ahead of time, with research, or practice, or even observation, and then it cooks somewhere inside us until, BING!, the oven timer goes off, we open the door, and, "Wow, I baked a cake!" (Thinking about the analogy, I guess a finished book takes a whole bunch of cakes, with lots of washing up along the way...)
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| From: | asakiyume |
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April 8th, 2007 10:52 am (UTC) |
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I like that...welcome to Wakanomori's bakery, now featuring many different flavors of waka from several eras of Japanese history, not to mention modern poetry from Meiji on. Occasional essays and stories also available...
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April 6th, 2007 12:58 pm (UTC) |
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This is completely beyond incredible.
A SINGLE FOLDED PIECE?...THIS IS TRULY UNBELIEVABLE!
Yes, apparently it takes him 40 hours to fold that one--and it must use a very big piece of paper, I think.
It's just so amazing to learn about what people can do...
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