Uyen Nguyen
Origami is my greatest passion. I created my first designs by
experimenting with freehand folds on paper and seeing if I liked the
results. My current work now involves precise calculations, and I
generate the crease patterns for my designs on a computer.
Mathematics, science, nature, and color theory serve as inspiration
for all my works. I love all things bright and colorful, and paper is
a great medium to express that love.
This work was created using an algorithm I developed while in
isolation due to the pandemic. I detail the algorithm in my paper,
"Folding Functions II: Methods for Mathematically Manipulating
Miura-ori Models", which presents a method to design origami
patterns that follow mathematical equations or graphical data.
This pair of designs was modeled on the data for the number of new
cases of COVID-19 in the United States (red, above) and New York
(blue, below) from March 1, 2020 through January 20, 2021. The
reference data I used to create these patterns is from The New
York Times.