COrigami - an AI-based Origami Design Tool

I’m very excited to announce a paper I have co-authored: COrigami: An AI Pipeline for Co-Designing Flat-Foldable Visually Recognisable Origami. It introduces COrigami, a first of its kind AI-based origami design tool, capable of generating origami crease patterns and simulating their folded look, including simple shaping, starting from a textual description. The majority of the ML research was carried out by a team at Google DeepMind, led by Tom Zahavy, with me and a number of other origami designers working mostly as domain experts. Nonetheless, the general approach of first using an LLM for translating a textual description of the model into a stick figure and then using deterministic algorithms to generate a crease pattern, is exactly the same as I suggested on my blog in 2023. I’m proud to have been able to contribute a little to this unique project, and to work with a great team of experts from two seemingly very different fields.