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Check out more of Adam Tran's origami work here!

Design by Lisa Nilsson.

Designs by Hari and Deepti.

Check out more designs ad Maude White's page!

Individual Foldscopes, as Dr Prakash dubs them, are printed on A4 sheets of paper (ideally polymer-coated for durability). A pattern of perforations on the sheet marks out the 'scope's components, which are colour-coded in a way intended to assist the user in the task of assembly—for the Foldscope has no written instructions to guide, or possibly frustrate, the user.

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