Computational Origami and David Huffman

geeber writes "Here is an article about David Huffman's work in the mathematics of computational origami at the New York Times (soul sucking registration required). According to the article, computational origami, "also known as technical folding, or origami sekkei, draws on fields that include computational geometry, number theory, coding theory and linear algebra." David Huffman is also the inventor of Huffman coding used in MP3s and was mentioned prieviously here."

MP3s

[Anonymous Coward]

David Huffman is also the inventor of Huffman coding used in MP3s...

"Let's sue HIM too!!!" -RIAA

Computational Origami

[tikoloshe]

as /. performs computational origami on the server and fold it into a crumpled half-finished paper swan on the floor

Re:Well, more famous for huffman coding long befor

[Anonymous Coward]

Since he died in '99 he has become less involved.
Also, origami is not actually a new thing.
What Huffman was interested in was curved folds and stress points. Maybe it should be called Extreme Origami.

NY Times Reg

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

How many more slashdot frontpages before the NY times realise that by taking away registration, their advertising revenues will quintuple?

Or maybe they don't care about revenues! Maybe they just want our DATA?!?

Wait, wait.... sorry. It's the NEW YORK times! Silly me

Computational Origami?

[Anonymous Coward]

Be sure to join us next week as David Huffman invites us to take a peek into the exciting world of quantum flower arrangement. :p

Re:MP3s

[Anonymous Coward]

"Let's sue HIM too!!!" -RIAA

No need to sue HIM, it will disappear as soon as teen goths grow older ;)

Re:An excellent explanation of Huffman coding...

[Mignon]

Vry nfrmtv chptr on lssy cmprsn!

Re:Mathematical elegance - beauty

[Anonymous Coward]

Look, when will you get it... God came up with a set of field equations he/she/it couldn't solve in closed form. Hence, he/she/it created a simulation to probe solution space. The particular incarnation we inhabit is a Monte Carlo simulation -- we just mis-interpret the random distributions as being consistent with some silly wave equation theory (quantum mechanics). Question is when will it be realized that there is a bug in the code and the simulation terminated?
kill -9 universe_sim

Re:My roommate last year was named David Huffman.

[freeze128]

Did he fold your mattress into a swan?

Mnr crrctn

[John Allsup]

Vry nfrmtv chptr n lssy cmprsn?

Thr shld b n 'n' n th wrd 'on'

Re:Well, more famous for huffman coding long befor

[Anonymous Coward]

You misspelled Xtreme.