The Foldinator Origami Modeler and Document Generator is a software application under development by Zing Man Studios. The project is currently seeking funding to allow for the completion of the prototype and initial release version. If you or your organization awards grants to support research and development in the fields of new media arts, computer visualization or computational mathematics, please contact me. Also you are interested in collaborating on the development, or in becoming a tester when there is a publicly available Foldinator demo, or simply have comments, please contact me as well.

News and Announcements

November 2009 - I have posted the third build of Foldinator 2, with commentary. This version draws the paper procedurally using the drawing API.

September 2009 - I have posted the second build of Foldinator 2, with commentary. This version loads and parses an OrigamiXML file selected from a list.

July 2009 - I have posted the first build of Foldinator 2, with commentary. This version presents basic UI.

July 2009 - I have begun work on Foldinator 2.0, a Flex application.

July 2009 - I proposed a schema for Origami XML (draft).

February 2004 - Foldinator project is currently seeking funding to allow for the completion of development.

September 2003 - I have completed diagrams for my Fivefold Rose using a development version of the Foldinator as part of the diagramming process.

April 2001 - Project Description. An explanation of the Foldinator, its goals, methods, design and development issues. Adapted from a paper I presented at the 2001 3OSME conference, presented by Origami USA, this paper is included in the 3OSME Conference Proceedings.