Kelvin Wang, a student at Brigham Young University in Utah, has discovered a new way to make origami. He created bloom patterns. They allow a person to elaborately fold a single sheet of paper into a flat shape. When unfolded, it resembles a blooming flower. Many of these patterns have rotational symmetry—they look the same no matter how you rotate them.
Wang shared his idea with Larry Howell, a mechanical engineer at Brigham Young. Howell thinks bloom patterns could be useful for space missions. A telescope, for example, could lie flat inside a cramped rocket and then unfold to full size once in space.