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by e19293001 3740 days ago
What book would you recommend to learn Origami?
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Oh there are so many good ones. Robert Lang's "Origami Design Secrets" is sort of a bible. Also, there are 2 publishers worth checking out: Origami house and Origami Shop (http://www.origami-shop.com/m_index.php)
In terms of publishers, Dover Press springs to mind? http://search.doverpublications.com/search?keywords=origami

admittedly I haven't looked at them for years, but they still seem to have quite a range of Robert J Lang, John Montroll, etc.

An aside - there are other connections between computing and origami; 20 years ago Bern & Hayes showed that assigning mountain or valley folds to a crease pattern in order to make it fold flat was NP-complete http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.28.1... (and is also in the "I wish I'd thought of that" category. It was a question from me on Usenet that piqued their interest in origami, so I got an acknowledgement in the paper - but I wouldn't have come up with that idea in a million years)

Erik Demaine has online courses about Origamis in a mathematical setting : http://erikdemaine.org/folding/