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A new family of Origami shapes that unfold like flower petals could be used to design more effective structures in space, like telescopes or solar panels. Origami structures can be stored compactly but then opened up into much larger shapes, but many can’t always be easily packed away and are often complex to unfold. Larry Howell at Brigham Young University in Utah have found a new family of origami shapes they call 'bloom patterns' that unfold in one smooth motion to create a bowl-like structure, resembling a flower. 

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Folding Time into Origami Blooms

here I stand waiting
balanced on the edge of time
past draped at my back
the future creases forward
a bloom yet to be folded

creases cross the sheet
the past bends, then re-creases
future folds to match
both entwine though never meet
a puzzle time enlightens

like petals rising
origami takes its form
each wedge takes its place
a flower blooms in the room
unfurling in happenstance

paper remembers
each valley, each mountain path
trails of where I've been
ghosts of futures not yet lived
hidden in the pleated sedge

tilted polygons
wedges stacked in helical
time loops on itself
a structure both flat and vast—
endless bloom of folded space

each crease is a breath
a moment held in silence
each fold, a new path
unfolding from edge of time—
flowers blooming come alive

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