Origami Software from Scratch
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Robby is an origami artist, teacher, and coder currently working on a creative coding library for origami design. The physical constraints of origami lend nicely to algorithms employed in its design space, resulting in a budding landscape of origami design software. Robby's is unique in having been written in Javascript, able to run on the web and be incorporated among all the open-source Javascript libraries.
Writing a creative platform is hard. What is lost or gained by drawing the curtain over certain machinery but not others?
Origami is an underrepresented art form. What makes a software tool inclusive, and how can it double as a teacher and explain concepts along the way?
Also I mean, what is origami, even?
Bring your creative selves! We'll get to fold origami after the talk.
