PROVO — The newest style of origami – the art of paper folding – has come from a student at BYU.

Kelvin Wang created this new origami style as part of his work in the engineering department at BYU, where they’re studying how origami patterns can be used for things like solar panels and antennas. Larry Howell is Wang’s mechanical engineering professor.

“So we’re always looking for new origami patterns or patterns from the origami community to do our engineering work. And here, this very bright student, Kelvin Wong, had some ideas of some patterns. And they looked really good and very promising,” Howell said. “And I’ve not seen anything like it, which was kind of exciting, that hey, this can help us in our engineering, but it also appears to be a new class of origami.”

Howell said they sh

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