Points and Folds

[dukealien]

Points and Folds


Origami proves
humanity can construct
perfectly enough.

[vagabond]

hard to weigh, can´t build a hydrogen bomb from a sheet of paper.. but no silicone chip either
(i always take things too literal.. your haiku is a nice hommage to the art of folding paper)

[nibbed]

Hi dukealien,
why not:


Points and Folds


Origami proves
humanity constructs
perfectly enough.




might it destroy something hidden
or mess with that tiny meter?

-nibbed

[dukealien]

Hi dukealien,
why not:


Points and Folds


Origami proves
humanity constructs
perfectly enough.




might it destroy something hidden
or mess with that tiny meter?

-nibbed

Without flat-out explaining (that's in the Spoiler), it would mess with the open meaning (talking potential rather than realized  here).  But your six words are a more pleasing composition than my 17 syllables!  Thanks.

hard to weigh, can´t build a hydrogen bomb from a sheet of paper.. but no silicone chip either

(i always take things too literal.. your haiku is a nice hommage to the art of folding paper)

Thanks!  The intended meaning is a bit diffuse:

The idea here is that, although origami paper's points and folds are wildly imprecise as physically implemented - just look at a paper point under magnification! - simple instructions, applied by non-experts, replicably produce complex figures.  Nuclear explosives and computer chips (per @vagabond, good examples!) show that humans, despite their own gross inherent physical limitations, can construct objects that function on atomic or even subatomic levels which are no more than philosophy to their senses.  I find this amazing.  (Origami, too.)

And thanks to all readers as well as the commenters.

[shemthepenman]

nice poem. there's a good documentary called Between The Folds [you can see it here you'll have to skip the first 5 minutes or so].

"The fold: the Baroque invents the infinite work or process. The problem is not how to finish a fold, but how to continue it, to have it go through the ceiling, how to bring it to infinity. It is not only because the fold affects all materials that it thus becomes expensive matter, with different scales, speeds, and different vectors (mountains and waters, papers, fabrics, living tissues, the brain), but especially because it determines and materializes Form. It produces a form of expression, a Gestating, the genetic element or infinite line of inflection, the curve with a unique variable." ~Gilles Deleuze