I’ve been following the path of first publications of a few things, namely the natural origami patterns ie. patterns formed through buckling pressure - Yoshimura, Miura, Kresling, Waterbomb etc…
To cut to the chase, Miura-sensei and his team did some experiments compressing sheets of paper (I’m still looking for the paper that shows the method for these calculations) and found a collection of orderly folding patterns emerged, he goes onto to show how amazing the Developable Double Corrugation (Miura-ori) is. Figure 3.8 and Figure 3.9 look to me like a waterbomb pattern - can anyone else see that too? but its not noted in the paper. I’m curious if anyone else knows of any early publications of any of these patterns. For instance, I’m sure that Fujimoto-sensei published plenty, and its clear that Tomoko Fuse's spiral work is all what is now known in academic circles as the Kresling pattern - though I haven’t gotten to the bottom of who published first, Kresling’s demonstration of how to create one with buckling is very very good, and Fuse’s spiral work is just beautiful. best, Matthew ps. thanks for the responses to our survey - keep them coming in
