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The Helium Stockpile : A Collaboration in Mathematical Folding Sculpture
- Leonardo
- The MIT Press
- Volume 39, Number 3, June 2006
- pp. 233-235
- Article
- Additional Information
The Helium Stockpile is a manipulable folding structure of hundreds of wooden blocks, representing the transformation between surface and solid through a foldable one-dimensional chain. The sculpture grew out of an unexpected collaboration between a sculptor and two mathematicians, giving the structure a mathematical basis through which it is guaranteed to be foldable into essentially any three-dimensional shape.