Example of kirigami: St. Paul’s Cathedral by Bharath Kishore. The aforementioned studies involved what are essentially types of high-tech origami, as their 3D shape derived from their 2D surface ...

Current kirigami patterns when deployed undergo uniform scaling, meaning, for example, that a square shape grows in size to become a larger square. What the researchers have done is to enable a ...

North Carolina State University researchers have developed a kirigami-inspired mechanical ... and a postdoctoral researcher at NC State. "For example, a specific configuration of functional ...