Splash Biography

YICHEN ZHANG, UChicago senior obsessed with paper

Major: Economics

College/Employer: UChicago

Year of Graduation: 2012

Brief Biographical Sketch:

I used to be absolutely bewildered by origami and thought the pieces of paper were making fun of me. Then one day, after the repeated folding and unfolding of the crane base by a very patient friend, I finally got it, and have been killing trees in the pursuit of origami ever since.

Past Classes

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A891: Working Out the Kinks: Simple Origami Beyond the Crane in Splash! Fall 2011 (Oct. 01, 2011)

If you have questions about how to make origami, or have been particularly frustrated by making origami in the past, this is the class for you! We'll go over the "bases" step-by-step, ensure that origami instruction books will now read clear as day, admire the works of origami masters, and even sneak in a little bit of geometric explanation of the magic behind origami.