Comments on: It’s a Beautiful World We Live in

By: oschene

oschene — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:17:26 +0000

I admit, I skipped over the biblio, assuming it was speaking of math articles I hadn't read. Don't see anything from Origami³, which is surprising. However, a thorough literature search would be problematic, I would think, since some of the literature is out-of-print and some of it, out-of-sight. For a long time, all I knew of Fujimoto was what other people said about him. Once I actually saw a one of his books, I was rather the less impressed with those who came after him. Citation is important in academic work. However, care must be taken, in my opinion: an undue reverence for citation outside the academic world can deceive the unwary into thinking that discovery equals ownership.

By: Tom Hull

Tom Hull — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:26:23 +0000

Actually, I’m not all that impressed with Nojima’s work. I mean, (1) he’s exploring a lot of folds that were previously done by Fujimoto, Fuse, Palmer, Barreto, Shafer and others, but he doesn’t attribute or cite their work at all. For an academic, that’s bad — you should always cite your sources AND do a thorough literature search to see if anyone else has done anything similar. Since Nojima refers to these things as “origami” he should be searching the origami literature. And (2) the math he’s doing is formulated on special cases of Kawasaki’s Theorem as well as some other results for rigid folding by Huffman and Lang. Again, he doesn’t reference this prior work. Poo. I haven’t digested his articles enough to tell whether or not he’s adding enough of his own spin on things to make it fantastic. Otherwise he’s doing a little math, making some cool-as-heck folds, and saying, “Isn’t this cool?!” using academic language. Whoop-de-do.

By: Wolf

Wolf — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 10:00:15 +0000

Yep – there’s quite a few restaurants here that do some fantastic vegetarian curries.

By: malachi

malachi — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 02:59:24 +0000

amen, brother.