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PowerElectronixyesterday at 2:55 PM1 replyview on HN

There's more to it. Origami as a calculation tool is more powerful than compass and straight edge.


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CrazyStatyesterday at 8:45 PM

Is there? I followed the link[1] to the original author of the desktop software this web app is derived from, and he says:

> To make a long story short, by the third generation of ReferenceFinder (written in 2003), I had incorporated all 7 of the Huzita-Justin Axioms of folding into the program, allowing it to potentially explore all possible folding sequences consisting of sequential alignments that each form a single crease in a square of paper. Of course, the family tree of such sequences grows explosively (or to be precise, exponentially); but the concomitant growth in the availability of computing horsepower has made it possible to explore a reasonable subset of that exponential family tree, and in effect, by pure brute force, find a close approximation to any arbitrary point or line within a unit square using a very small number of folds.

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[1] https://langorigami.com/article/referencefinder/