We are a group of engineers who have come close to failure many times and have had to perservere through many failed origami models. With this project, we hope to erase this pain for future folders and make origami more enjoyable.

We all enjoy origami a lot. However, as students, everything is better where learning is involved! Each member of the team entered with a learning goal in mind.

Kawin Nikomborirak

Kawin has a fair amount of experience with creating ‘academic’ code. However, he knows that the world needs products which solve problems and can be used by everyone. In that regard he has been excited to go through the process of making something useable and intuitive. He also is intrigued by computer vision and its computational and yet non-deterministic qualities, and has been happy to use this project as an excuse to explore the field.

Mark Goldwater

Mark has a fair amount of programming experience programming, but started seriously writing functional and useful programs his first year at Olin College. He has been interested in OpenCV and what is has to offer, so he has been happy to engage in a project that utilized the library and apply it to another one of his interests: origami.

Sid Garimella

Sid also has a fair amount of programming, but has taken a liking to the mathematics involved in computer vision. Having researched similar topics prior to joining Olin, the problem of origami state detection appealed greatly to him, and he gladly took on the project.

Credit

Other than those nerds described up there, there are groups and individuals who have been critical to actualizing our dreams.

Our Peers

No product is complete without feedback, and software is incomplete without technical feedback. Everyone in our software design studio who went through the trouble of listening to us ramble about our goal and giving us feedback deserves a hand.

Ben Hill

Ben Hill is our software design instructor and has put up with our out-of-control imagination and ambition and always pointed us in a constructive direction.

All OpenCV Developers

OpenCV was the image processing tool we used. The amount of work, talent, and knowlege is phenomenal, and we are glad that intellligent people with PhDs put this together for idiots like us to use for free.

The Qt Company

Having a graphical user interface which works across windows, mac, and linux seamlessly is a blessing. The existance of QT has certainly saved a lot of our hair from being pulled out.