ABSTRACT
By the 1990s, these techniques began to assume mathematical form. At roughly the same time, Toshiyuki Meguro in Japan and one of the authors (Robert Lang) in America devised a set of techniques based on disk packing that allowed an origami artist to design a basic form, called a base, with an arbitrary configuration of flaps [8, 9]. These techniques and their subsequent diffusion through the origami communities on both sides of the Pacific led to a wave of new origami creation and an “arms race” (or perhaps a “legs race” is more accurate) of arthropodal invention known informally as the “Bug Wars.”
