{"id":32,"date":"2022-12-14T15:18:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T23:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mathscrafts\/?p=32"},"modified":"2022-12-14T15:18:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T23:18:24","slug":"miura-fold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mathscrafts\/2022\/12\/14\/miura-fold\/","title":{"rendered":"Miura fold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can see some examples of this fold in the Elliot Building origami display (<a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mathscrafts\/2022\/12\/01\/hello-world\/\">here is a link to my post about that<\/a>). Since our first assembly of the display, I have made several more!<\/p>\n<p>Astrophysicist Koryo Miura developed this fold as a way of packing things such as solar panels flat, so that they could be very easily opened (and closed) in space. Because of this space connection I asked a colleague\u00a0from Physics &amp; Astronomy to donate something more space-related for me to fold, to replace the math research poster I had originally used for our display. In this video, you can see me demonstrating the two-points-of-contact folding and unfolding that the Miura fold provides:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/echo360.ca\/media\/f454cb9b-57d2-462e-999e-0142afde43ae\/public\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-33\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mathscrafts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7581\/2022\/12\/Miura-Map-Demo-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mathscrafts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7581\/2022\/12\/Miura-Map-Demo-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mathscrafts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7581\/2022\/12\/Miura-Map-Demo-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mathscrafts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7581\/2022\/12\/Miura-Map-Demo-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mathscrafts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7581\/2022\/12\/Miura-Map-Demo-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mathscrafts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7581\/2022\/12\/Miura-Map-Demo-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mathscrafts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7581\/2022\/12\/Miura-Map-Demo.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click on the picture to watch the video.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I will update the Elliot Building displays soon, to include this space-themed example. I will also add some examples made from geological survey maps, donated by a colleague from Earth &amp; Ocean Sciences, because the Miura fold is also excellent for storing maps.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Arif Babul \u00a0(Physics &amp; Astronomy) and Duncan Johannessen (Earth &amp; Ocean Sciences) for the donations!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can see some examples of this fold in the Elliot Building origami display (here is a link to my post about that). Since our first assembly of the display, I have made several more! Astrophysicist Koryo Miura developed this fold as a way of packing things such as solar panels flat, so that they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mathscrafts\/2022\/12\/14\/miura-fold\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Miura fold&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3679,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-origami","tag-origami","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mathscrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mathscrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mathscrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mathscrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mathscrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mathscrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mathscrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mathscrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mathscrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mathscrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}