11 Levels of Origami: Easy to Complex | WIRED
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- Origami artist and physicist Robert J. Lang explains origami in 11 levels of difficulty. From a simple, traditional cicada to an extremely intricate one, watch how Robert J. Lang demonstrates and breaks down everything that goes into the art of origami.
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Read more about Robert Lang’s incredible career as a physicist, engineer and origami artist at WIRED.com: www.wired.com/story/an-origami-artist-shows-how-to-fold-ultra-realistic-creatures/
I have mere hours to live
No
Do you need some special paper or any can be used to make oragami of such complexity
Yeah...but can he do a Charizard?
Would love to know how he started and learned this level complex origami and maths...very much interested in the same
Level 42: the cicada starts gaining consciousness
At level 7.83 it vibrates
Level 100 you need to go out, catxh real chicada, and fold it into origami chicada
Level 200: so ok the origami cicada started flying and I can't catch it
Best comment ever!!
Level:300 the cicada then kidnaps your children and fold them into origami and mails them to you.
Level 12 can actually fly.
The Thundercool you animate it
Level 13 has the power to kill
level 99 is the actual one
Legend has it number 15 will speak in a chilling voice
Level 20 have ultra instinct
Level 99:
As you can see here, folding the electrons, protons and neutrons of the Cicada was relatively simple... But collapse folding them into the appropriate Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Iron, Magnesium ... And Copper Atoms is a bit tricky
xD
Ok this comment won!
LOL 😂
Why else would he need to be a physicist for?
I love you❤😂
"Origami artist and physicist" this man has conquered life
Not only that, he studied math and topology in a great depth
Not if he does not know Jesus
@@guslopez7807 that's your belief. everyone's belief is different.
Gus Lopez this is what people say when someone is more talented than they are. It’s a cheap and ineffective way to even the playing field.
Believe it or not, there's actually a field of origami in a lot of sciences. For example, astrophysicists have started utilizing origami for things like sail, solar panel, and cable management, in order to reduce the overall payload size and pack equipment fuller without having to expend more rocket fuel. For things like orbiters or satellites, it means you can greatly increase sail or dish size without needing to increase the storage space for it. These folded structures can even be combined or inverted and create incredibly stable structures. It's all really fascinating.
Level 50: It's not easy to fold the cardiac muscle, but if you don't, its heart won't beat at the right rhythm...
This is underrated
@@ikhwanzainal1239 yes
@@ikhwanzainal1239 yeah
Yeah that's where I messed up. Now he ain't got rythem
No thats level 18
“Physicist and origami artist.
One pays the bills, one uses the bills.”
Cream Cheese Filling why is this not the top comment 😂
nice
Perfectly balanced, as everything should be
Somehow I cannot distinguish which is which.
Thats a joke i would laugh about just to not make you feel uncomfortable
"Akira Yoshizawa considered his own cicada to be his greatest creation."
His kids:
😂😂😂😂😂
Underrated comment
He nicknames his kids Cicada too?!
Plot twist: He folded his kids out of a single sheet of paper, too
@@Jennyfisch can't wait for disney to release a new live action Pinocchio film but with this as the new story of his creation 😂
he was at level 4 or 5 when the thought crossed my mind..."there are still 6 levels more???"
Same, I was like are they gonna make it come alive lol?
I'm thinking the same with just a level 3...
Level 46:"So the cicada will actually attempt to fold you"
SunBreaker How does this not have more likes!
Because he copied someone else
@@3dguy299 find the comment I copied then
@@sunbreaker167 "Level 42: the cicada starts gaining consciousness"
@@3dguy299 They are two different things calm down lad
Level 1000: it’s kind of hard to fold the ions without tearing it
Larry Henery - lmao
@@falcunt like 2
Level 1000000 it's kind of hard to bend gravity without tearing the fabric of spacetime
Really laughed lol
@F u n n y D a n k You can't play god and create a living cicada out of paper without breaking a few eggs, Mark.
He legit left a job at NASA to persue origami.
I was a HUGE origami enthusiasist in my childhood and Robert was my hero, literally. But I started losing interest after getting to a hostel based school, and completely abandoned it now. But these videos still make me feel happy about my childhood. :')
he did WHAT
Hostel based school? What does that mean?
@Tangent of Circle that was a rhetorical question but thx for info anyways
That's a misnomer. He left NASA to do origami and eventually came back to help with satellite designs. He left for his hobby and his hobby helped him return. A neat folding of points, eh?
@@philosophysics8150 I see what you did there.
Oh gosh. This man is a legend to me. As I was a kid around 12, I discovered origami through a book of him at a library. I urged my mom to order me some more of his books and this grew in me an interest in Japan. 8 years later, I'm working in Tokyo, doing origamis with my coworker during my lunchbreak. Full circle.
Now that's a crazy great backstory
Cringe.
@@_RDMPTN dude just shut up💀
@@_RDMPTN no your cringe.
@@_RDMPTN Useless 🙄
Level 126: “and as you can see here, I’ve made a fold for each red blood cell”
no that's level 23
No that's level 3
Hi Matt!
No that's level 0.3
No that's level 0
level 26: make sure the nucleus is not placed too close to the cell wall
more like level 753, its been months now, not quite sure how deep i am, but im finishing up the final cell wall linings and nueral connections i just cant quite get the synapse to occur between the neurons, i may have to go back a few hundred folds..
@@Versac3e level 879, screwed up big time, made a fold that was 2 plank lengths off and it folded in on itself, created a black hole and now I gotta restart
i was gonna like your comment but it was at 420 so i'm sorry
Why would there be a cell wall in an animal?
@@charlestalks5638 paper is a animal?
This man knows more about cicadas than cicadas know about themselves.
Tru tru
humans know more about humans than humans
wait, that's illegal
@@newspaperbin6763 lol
Doesn’t everyone
i agree
I like how the more complex it became, the more it just became topology and the process of unwrapping a 3D model.
Yes, the abstract ones used the different sides and the edge of the paper for features, but after a certain level all the features were generated by creases.
Learning what the word "topology" meant just unwrapped my (lack of) brain.
This guy actually designs satellite solar panels that fold in and out when theyre in space, its very cool.
I thought that was a joke then realized that satellites actually do that and that you're serious.
That's awesome, really shows that any random hobby you might take an interest in mastering could turn out to be significant in pushing "real world" progress forward. No learning is wasted.
But do they fold into space cicadas?
Dor Bacal Bruh😂
I'd love to see what the character modelers on the Bay Transformers movies could do with that.
The real question is not how he folded it, it’s how on earth he designed them
Very carefully
I feel in order to design something with this complexity you'd have to vision the folds and remember what folds you already did and how the paper reacts to the fold
Reminds me of the dark series.
@@Hendrixcks you're so salty xD
tru
Level 3301: Cicada creates the greatest internet mystery
Underrated comment
Nice
Lemmino
Nice
lol
This guy is a rock star in engineering and physics, because he uses origami in technology with his compliant mechanisms. I love it.
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Just wanted to let you all know that this guy is a legit physicist. He went to Stanford and CalTech and happens to be an epic origami artist as well.
The way wired has “origami artist and physicist” may have people conclude he is a physicist of origami. Either way, it’s a cool thing to mention about the guy. Reading up on him was interesting and I wanted to share some of that.
He is also legit a very kind person.
Rabadash its not that serious
Math/engineering is a huge part of origami so I could see why he is so good at it! I'm sure it came pretty naturally to him as soon as he started practicing.
Many origami artists are scientists and mathematicians. It makes sense seeing how they are using advanced packing techniques that are found in nature.
level 20: “okay now be careful in case it tries to fly away”
😂😂😂
😂😂😂 (2)
😂😂😂 (3)
😂😂😂 (4)
😂😂😂 (5)
I'd love for someone to write an SCP based on this guy. A man who has the power to fold increasingly complex versions of animals/people. The more folds he adds the more it begins to resemble the real thing but at a certain point it actually starts to imitate it as well, and eventually act like it. The SCP (the artist) explains it as simply a complex way of folding paper but to everyone else it looks like magic.
maybe this guy himself is an origami
I love this scp idea
This is brilliant. The absurdity and slight brush of comedy would make the idea totally feasible for the scp universe
This sounds like some basic Series 1 stuff 💀
got it ill let you know when it's done
'Origami artist and Physicist' HAS to be the coolest job title ever.
This is level 187. I would say the liver was the hardest part.
Lol 😂
I would disagree, in level 188 the blood flow is particularly difficult to achieve without tearing an artery.
Cicada dont have a liver 🤦🏽♂️
Wait til you reach level 198, Genomes are a total headache to fold
@@izzatirfan1995 r/wooosh
"At level 23, things get rather complicated, because we have to make a human sacrifice to the ancient gods so we can manipulate the paper in a way that defies our modern understanding of physics."
No Body Commented...
@@6cyanide622 Welcome to the internet! You must be new here.
Hello, yes, I'd like to be the human sacrifice
@@user-gk8if1re8o meat for the meat gods
Im 1000th like
This is so insanely impressive. A combo of art and geometry and physics I didn’t know it was this complex. Brilliant stuff
That paper he's using for the more advanced ones looks so high-quality it almost resembles cloth. Fascinating.
Level 1: Yes I can do that
Level 2: Oh
Level 3: hm....
Level 4+: give up
I got lost at Level 3.
I found Found a new dimension in level 6
Level 11: You have cat to be kitten me right meow.
@@leefisher6366 this joke ruined my day
That guy probably crumples draft paper into swans without even thinking about it.
*U N D E R R A T E D*
😂
this should be the top comment
Epic comment
😂😂😂
Level 1000: Now you really need to be careful with this collapse, it is as complex as it gets and any miniscule error might spawn a blackhole.
Level 1000: the cicada origami is now folding a cicada origami who's folding a cicada origami.
Funnily enough, there are origami models out there representing a figure folding an origami shape.
lmao stfu bro
It's origami cicadas all the way down...
wait... its all origami cicadas?
@@bacu. always has been
Final reveal: he is himself an origami
haha i laughed. thanks
Indeed, a level 100,293,138 one
I laughed so hard. Thanks for that. 🤣🤣🤣
plot twist: the universe is just one big origami
"Here is my lvl 5000000 origami, I've made fully-functioning artificial body for myself to make me immortal."
The last level is so complicated I'm pretty sure I couldn't even unfold it.
Trust me...
That one is complicated but there are some far,faaaar more crazier and more difficult than that one
Level 4 is like that already
Anthony Romero That’s really funny. I’m still laughing.
hahaha very punny
@@alexanderjamesmay158 Why should we trust you?
I adore when a physics or math- genius doesn't stick to numbers, but creates something beautiful with his skills! It's the next level! 😀
Me: "There is no way you can improve this level further."
Robert: "There is another."
Honestly these look more like cicadas than cicadas do at this point.
You bet!
Things that try to look like things often look more like things than things.
-Terry Pratchet
@@phoenixflores6193 perfect
🤣🤣🤣
i agree with this, so you earned yourself your 1000th like!
I bet his wife doesn’t let him fold the laundry.
😂
Sht this is so underated lololol
Lmfao
Lmfao
Imagine opening the dresser and it's all cicadas.
The great Robert Lang. I have two of his books and can only fold to a level of 6 or 7. Am a great admirer of him and the art.
Level 2077: Be careful, the cicada might take over humanity.
The level 11 will defeat a real cicada in a cicada look-alike contest.
Tanmay Agarwal underrated af
All my insect collection goes to the next year garage sale
Synthétique as least people are willing to pay for ur origamis
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Tanmay Agarwal 🤣🤣🤣
I want a timelapse of him doing one of those complex cicadas
I am pretty sure there are similar video online
If you are interested in complex Origami timelapses, there are some fantastic RUclipsrs in the comments (Bodo, FearlessFlourish, etc.) that you might enjoy. I have a fair share of complex->super complex timelapses as well :)
He 3D prints them. Lol
@@jono601 nah but he does use a laser machine to make the crease pattern
@@jono601hypothetically, if he did, he probably did that after making the paper one so he has a model that wont get as easily damaged
I can't wait for part 2 video: level 12-20 where the final version the cicada is aerodynamic and can actually walk and chirp when you blow on it
Incredible. How anyone can conceive a design let alone make it happen is genius. Loved this.
So this is what a black belt in origami looks like.
tj detweiler
Critdizzle
He even does crazier things. It’s just insane.
I want to follow his track as a physics student.
I think you mean a black belt in gift wrapping
Level 20: I added the reproductive organ so that we won't need to fold papers.
🤣🤣🤣👍🏽
@Nishkarsh singh no, not a full animal. An empire
you JUST clicked "view replies"
@FBI's Dad 7 replies now actually
Lmao!!
I am in absolute awe of Robert Lang's origami artistry. As a beginner, I can't see myself ever getting to any of these levels in my lifetime. But thank you for this intriguing and beautiful insight.
lvl 50: Here the cicada will actually produce sound and depending on the types of folds it can play your favorite songs at a very high volume
Me at 12am: Should probably start getting to bed...
Me at 3am: Ahh, so the rabbit ear fold creates the cicada's wing? interesting...
Ya still awake? It's 5 months past your bedtime.
Yup... that’s me right now.
AHAHAHAHA
Ha ha ha gracioso nais nice!
google has you
I am experiencing a strange combination of perfect calm and sheer panic.
ohhh yeah! same...
Same, and I don't know why.
Hello and welcome to anxiety! Glad you could join us in this terrifying event of origami, and sign the guest book on the way out!
@@Dakkukuwakku hahahha exactly felt like that!!
Lootwijk so, so true
As an artist it takes a lot to impress me and I must admit I’m super impressed.
Level 260: *"so I've done one fold for every quark that makes up a cicada."*
Find more origami artists to do this series, but with different subjects.
Paper crane!!!
Joe
Yes!!!
Satoshi Kamiya!!!
paper boat lmao i wanna see someone make a titanic out of paper
This guy will now teach us how to fold a black hole
*folds paper in half 72 times*
I call points where sereval crease lines meet a "black hole" because of the way it looks in crease pattern diagrams
That's the final level, folding space time!
This one got me.
Just break the Planck scale
I still don't entirely understand how traditional origamists could think of a 3d shape, then reverse engineer that shape into a series of symmetrical folds on a 2d object..
Its *mind blowing*
It was super amazing! And knowing that he only used the cicada and knowing that there are a lot more animals or insects that you can do origami with still boggles my mind.
Lvl.1000000
“Now let’s disassemble this paper to the atomic level and shuffle the subatomic particles then reform it into an actual living cicada.”
Eyy you can't break down paper . Then it's not Origami
Okay, let's not break it down but fold it unto higher dimension and apply topology onto it
I reckon the guy be like:
EASY AND SIMPLE STUFF BOI
this feels like something Dr. Manhattan would do
Before watching the video: “11 lvls ? I bet I can do maybe 5 lol “
After watching the video: *replay the video at lvl 2 on x0.5 speed*
they didn't show all the steps, some have to be implied...
i did literally the exact same thing
haha yeah i could probably only getting to lvl 4-5. I've been folding as a hobby for years and some folding techniques are still so hard to follow
It gets more & more complex and more & more realistic. Wow! This is truly amazing!
Fantastic video. I have several of Robert Lang's books and have attempted to fold many of his models but never got close to the perfection he achieves.
me during the day: man I'm so tired, I'm going to bed early today
me at 1am: 11 Levels of Origami
Same except its 1:30am fir me
superjam18 haha same for me except it’s 2am
Szucs Benji it’s actually 11 right now🤣
It’s 00:15 but yeah
Same, it’s literally 1:00 Am here
level 345: now this fold is for the resentment the cicada feels towards his mother
Hahahahaha
There is something about this guy sharing his passion for origami that I found to be very alluring and entertaining.
I spent time with him last summer when he was a guest artist at CenterFold origami convention in Columbus, Ohio ~ he was helpful, supportive and friendly! Along with being incredibly brilliant, he is also a genuinely nice guy.
I always love seeing someone so passionate about something, very inspirational!
Level 1: "Hey, I can do that! Origami is easy!"
Level 2: "Nope, too much. Go back."
Exactly my thoughts
Now I can fold the complex models.
I dunno man, I was doubtful of my origami skills once he said there were 8 steps to Level 1.
Eh i could probably do 4 levels 3 2 and 1 are easy
And it's increasing exponentially
Level 104: Make sure you fold the protein lipases correctly otherwise they might start eating meat instead of plants.
best coment
i am wondering if this gentlemen ever get back to this video and read back all the comments because if he hasnt, he should. Pure Gold.
level 3 million: we now fold each and every quark in the cicada. you will find that it also gains conciousness at step 10 thousand so be sure to beat it down
"Now for this cicada. The reason this one is level 12 is because of the intracit legs and the fact that it's sentient."
"This one is so difficult because of all the neurons you have to fold."
Do you mean intricate? Bone app the teeth
@@bababububa hahah
lmao
philip bayly 🤣🤣🤣
The first guy discovered how to make a collapse fold: "I'm going to do what's called a pro gamer move."
Huh?
Wow, this definitely inspired me to learn Origami. What an art!!
Omgggg I grew up with his designs. What a legend
Basically;
level 1: easy
level 2: normal
level 3: hard
level 4 - 11: impossible
To be fair he did cheat by using a tool.
@@fishsauce2221 Thats not cheating, thats being smart actually. You dont see people calling chefs cheats because they didnt beat the meat with their hands and used a meat tenderiser
I cant even do level 2
@@dmitrijsmironovs7513 You cannot compare those things. Using a tool is just wrong in my book. Like a student using a calculator for a test that doesn't require one,
fish sauce well, except in his case, it's quite impossible to fold those cicadas without those tools (tape and stuff)
Level 1: child’s play
Level 2: kindergarten homework
Level 3: simple
Level 4: algebra 2
Level 5: trigonometry
Level 6: calculus
Level 7: math wizard
Level 8: Einstein
Level 9: doom’s nightmare mode
Level 10: using a calculator on the reading part of the SAT
Level 11: math jesus
Level 12: it folds it self and reproduces
Level 13: it can talk
"level 13: it can *talk* "
Level 10 got me weak 💀
Level 100. It can fly.
I couldn’t make it past level 2, I feel weak. (I’ve never learned origami)
I have been trying to learn origami ever since I was a kid , fascinated by paper planes so now I collect my origami so I can see how much progress I have made
I never thought that i would watch a video about folding paper with such a scientific and artistic approach
Teacher: “The test will be easy”
The test:
XD..
I had a test today.. The teacher said it will be easy.
It wasn't.
idan Might’ve been easy for the few smartest kids in the class, or if you studied. Lol
@@ryanstock7094 I have studied, believe me XD
Literally, my chem final🙃
Anyone watching this because you're trying to learn, my prayers go out to you.
This was just in my recommendations I never really do origami
I was really into origami when I was young the most complex thing I made was a raptor it had 300 and something folds it burned me out but I finished it I haven’t gone back since then
im learning for an art collegue project :')
bruh they dont even show the steps properly
I have several books on folding origami similar to some of these, and this video is really going to help me understand a lot.
insane the thought into making such origami
me at lvl 5: “how can it get anymore complex??”
me at lvl 11: “oh...”
the boybrutus i think just the same
Level 0: just make a paper ball and say "it's an egg. It hasn't hatched yet".
Level -1: Don’t make anything. Just say “It’s when it’s not born yet” .
@@oacmd282 before it was born it would be an egg...>.
@@adamgallin9130 and a sperm
Level -2 dont fold paper just go to bed and forget about cicadas.
@@oacmd282 like 4
Absolutely, level12, brilliant. Mind boggling. and really complex. Thank you, I am really entertained.
I love how he geeks out about origami. The passion is life.
Random person: Origami is just folding paper.
Robert Lang: I'm about to end this mans reality.
“So for level 500, I’ve folded every body cell separately and connected them to form a 300 foot tall cicada”
*inadvertently creating a cicada kaiju in the center of Tokyo without a rampaging permit*
modular?
@@scottmantooth8785 if that was a movie i would gladly watch it, just imagine it
“kami titan”
really great way to fold and teach this awesome Japanese art
So glad I stumbled on this.
i could listen to this guy all day, he has a really clear way of talking.
Level 9000: As you can see the cacaida can fold itself.
*starts to gain different colors*
Robert's books are the best, and the respect he has for Japanese culture is amazing
Level 11 is his 'Opus 676'... Meaning he has created at least 676 different cicada designs!!
Bruh
If this man were to fold in poker, he would do it in breathtaking style with 11 levels of complexity.
LudosErgoSum 😂😂😂
Level 11 is to fold with such conviction and intensity that the other player feels compelled to interrupt and fold first!
He’s not a origami artist, he’s a paper wizard
No, a Master Jedi!
Satoshi Kamiya has a pretty nice design of that!
I'm kinda mad at how gross some of the folds on that level 2 one were tho lmao
He talks a lot but he doesn't do so much. He is cheating and uses tape 😬.
the paper wizard is jo nakashima
Wow! That is absolutely phenomenal! What cool details and techniques! I love geometric shapes and designs, they're so structured and beautiful. Aestheticly pleasing too. That might also be why I love the font Futura too! It's glorious and my favorite font along with some other art deco fonts! But yeah, this is incredible physical art and truly fascinating! Goood stuff! 😁👍🏻
level 2 has already blown my mind, can't imagine what 11 could possibly be?!
"This level of cicada is the most difficult because I somehow got a papercut and now it's hard to fold with a bandage on."
Level 11: I've added cicada organs and white blood cells
wow,
I didn't know about origami this much and seeing it as a thing
now I see why it is a thing