A humble concept from ancient Japanese design might remake the way supplies are dropped from the air. Polytechnique Montréal engineers designed parachutes based on kirigami—cutting paper into ...

If you have a fear of heights and find yourself falling out of an airplane, you probably don’t want to look up to find your parachute full of holes. However, if the designer took inspiration from ...

Researchers at the École Polytechnique de Montréal have developed a new type of parachute based on the Japanese art of cutting and paper folding kirigami – a variation of origami. The parachute is ...

From Origami to Aerospace Breakthrough Kirigami differs from origami in one important way: instead of simply folding paper, it entails cutting too. Through deftly cutting designs into a planar sheet, ...