Want a folded paper 3D alphabet? Of course you do! Check out this extruded origami text pattern generator.
This free web-based tool generates your text as a fold-up extruded 3D origami model. It’s based on this paper from Erik Demaine, Martin Demaine, and Jason Ku at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. [From makezine.com via Boing Boing]
The alphabet’s creators have also devised an alphabet made by the hinged dissection of a square. [From kottke.org]