How can folding paper make any shape?
Paper's Hidden Shapes
How can folding paper make any shape?
You fold a square of paper in half. Then in half again. A few more creases, a tuck here, a flip there — and suddenly you're holding a crane, a frog, or a tiny box. How does flat paper become any shape you can imagine?
Here's the secret: paper is thin, but it's not magic. It can't stretch like rubber or squish like clay. The only thing paper can do is bend along a line — we call that line a crease. Every origami shape is built entirely from creases.
