Computational Origami and David Huffman

geeber writes "Here is an article about David Huffman's work in the mathematics of computational origami at the New York Times (soul sucking registration required). According to the article, computational origami, "also known as technical folding, or origami sekkei, draws on fields that include computational geometry, number theory, coding theory and linear algebra." David Huffman is also the inventor of Huffman coding used in MP3s and was mentioned prieviously here."

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Re:NY Times Reg

[crmartin]

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By using registration, the NYT has a basic demographic measure to show advertisers, one that even includes click-through from other sites; this makes page views ten or a hundred times more valuable than random page views.

Mod parent up!

[JNighthawk]

It's funny guys! C'mon, it was a good Futurama joke!