Artist Folds Realistic Insects from a Single Sheet of Paper (Pictures)

[beer]

More Origami Photos @ Brian Chan's Site

These incredible origami insects look just like the real thing.

The pieces of art are all made from a single piece of parchment and are the work of 31-year-old origami expert Brian Chan.

His brilliant bugs are so detailed they are almost capable of fooling the naked eye into thinking they are real.

Chan is craft instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and completes his amazing paper sculptures in his spare time.

He said: "I started by copying work of other authors about 20 years ago but after a while I was good enough to start coming up with my own pieces.

"When I was growing up, my parents bought me a lot of origami books they start with simple models and then the diagrams get more and more complex near the end, so they are good sources for independent learning.

"In 2004, one of the authors whose books I grew up with, Robert Lang, came to MIT to talk and I felt really inspired by what he said.

"That year I folded about 10 models for the MIT Origami Competition, and I won several more awards. Since then I've made more than 100 original designs.

"The basic idea behind creating origami is simple, you are allocating sections of your flat sheet of paper which become folded parts of your model.

"The method I most often use use is called circle packing.

"Essentially, appendages in the model are formed when circular regions of paper fold umbrella-like into thin flaps.

"Beyond this, there are a lot of other techniques I use to make my models uniquely mine, and much of it just comes from experience, intuition and folding the model many different ways until it is perfect."

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Very stunning work :cheers:

[Alanon]

Is it just me or does MIT somehow attract geniuses?

:rockon:

[ck_kent]

Now, that's Origami! :thumbsup:

[stringbinder]

WOW !!!!!.......Amazing !!!!!