Happy Birthday Akira Yoshizawa

[finnmac]

And R.I.P.

[origamiguy]

Happy Birthday and check out the Google Doodle for today. Also the permanent link is below to the Google blog about it.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/ ... -fold.html

[gab]

Just saw the doodle, brightened my day. And then I bothered all my non-origamist friends with my excitement.

[origamiguy]

And information from the artist (Robert Lang) that did the folding for the google doodle is here:
http://www.langorigami.com/blog/?p=89

[origami-artist-galen]

Happy birthday Yoshizawa, I only just realized that he is credited for inventing wet folding. I remember seeing a photo of his ram in Paul Jackson's Encyclopedia of origami nearly a decade ago and being totally awestruck; Just gorgeous and pushing the limit in realism in origami.