How Japanese paper cutting inspired Montreal researchers to engineer a new type of parachute | Unpublished
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Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Ivan Semeniuk
Publication Date: October 1, 2025 - 11:00

How Japanese paper cutting inspired Montreal researchers to engineer a new type of parachute

October 1, 2025

Nothing useless can be truly beautiful, 19th-century textile designer William Morris once said.

Now a team of engineers at Polytechnique Montréal have demonstrated the inverse of Morris’s famous quote: They started with something truly beautiful and discovered it has an unexpected use – as a new type of parachute.

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