Flow My Thoughts, The IT Professor Said

Don't Know About Spindle, But Certainly Fold

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One of the most endearing [and irritating] aspects of the IT field is the way in which supposedly disparate intellectual concepts fuse together into a mutation of astounding potency. In part, this is simply a reflection of the computer's capacity to be a 'general machine', but the trick still looks magical for all that.

This article discusses programs which simulate orgami-style folding on computers, and their surprising and fruitful research results.

Now when we can get computational bending, stapling, and mutilation, we will indeed have crossed the threshold of a Brave New World.