The deadline isn't for another week, but I had to get this done before school starts again for the semester. Unlike the previous years, I'm actually satisfied with my submission this time. I kept trashing what I had and restarting in the first two contests because I didn't have a proper idea of what to make. This time, I had planned it out pretty far in advance and the whole process was a lot smoother.
As said in the title, this is a self-folding origami crane. The background is a basic parallax design and the ground plane has a hyperbolic geometry design. The hardest part (by FAR) was the folding itself. Before starting this graph, I assumed simulating origami would be pretty straightforward because a lot of it is just simple rotations. That assumption was very far from correct. There are many academic papers about it and even entire textbooks and courses. I stuck to simpler methods, but for advanced simulations, there's no limit to how complex it can get.
No graph link for the moment - I'll release it after the contest deadline (January 15th).
Estimated time investment: ~140 hours
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