2015

  • [publication] My third origami book「立体折り紙アート - 数理がおりなす美しさの秘密」(3D Origami Art – Secret of beauty derived from mathematics) was published from Nippon Hyoron Sha Co., Ltd. (2015/07/20)
  • [research] A low cost method for 3D printing internal organs with high visibility of the inner structure was developed on collaborative research with Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. NP. A press conference was held in Univ. of Tsukuba. (2015/07/08)
  • [research] I managed one of the most important CG related symposium in Japan, Visual Computing / Graphics and CAD joint symposium, as a program chair. (2015/06/28,29)
  • [Talk] NICOGRAPH International 2015, "Interactive Design Systems for Computational Origami Art", 2015/6/14, Tokyo. (Invited Talks)
  • [Talk] Meikei Tsukuba Ground Festival, "Computational Origami Art", 2015/6/13, Tsukuba.
  • [Talk] Japan Society for Symbolic and Algebraic Computation, "Origami Design Software and Mathematics ", 2015/6/6, Tsukuba. (Special Guest)
  • [Video] Japan Science and Technology Agency, Science Channel, "The World of Computational origami" (2015/5/14).(Webページ)
  • [exhibition] One month exhibition at Tsukuba-city government building. (2015/04)
  • [exhibition] One week exhibition at Tsukuba museum, 1st Tsukuba Media Art Festival. (2015/03/14-22)
  • [Talk] Scientific Systems round-table discussion, "2045 When computer transcends human", 2015/1/7, Tokyo. ( Summary and Video)

2014

  • [Workshop, Talk] Three workshops at the origami convention held in Israel. Talks and workshops at Holon Institute of Technology and Shenkar College in Tel aviv. A talk at Al-Quds University in Palestine. (2014/12/17-25) (ブログ)
  • Managed 6OSME: The 6th International Meeting on Origami in Science, Mathematics and Education as a vice chair of organizing committee. Web of 6OSME
  • [Workshop] Four workshops at the origami convention in Deutschland. Web。(2014/5/2-4)
  • [exhibition] Local event, Tsukuba Hapimachi. Web(2014/4/27)
  • [Talk] "Interactive design for digital fabrication and computational origami", Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (2014/4/7)
  • [exhibition]NHK heart showcase. Web
  • [award] The Society for Art and Science, Best paper in Vol. 12, Hiroharu Ito, Yoshihiro Kanamori, Jun Mitani, Yukio Fuku, Modeling of Reverse Perspective Objects, Vol.12, No.3, pp.143-151
    (Web , Project page)

2013

  • [radio] Kansai-radio, academic variety hour (2013/12/13)
  • [talk, exhibition] Kobe IT Festival, (2013/12/13,14), blog entry