Ron Resch (Ronald Dale Resch) was an artist, computer scientist, and applied geometrist, known for his work involving folding paper, origami tessellations and 3D polyhedrons. Resch studied art at the

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receiving his

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, and went on to become a professor of

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at the

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. He famously designed the

Vegreville egg The Vegreville egg is a giant sculpture of a pysanka, a Ukrainian-style Easter egg. The work by Paul Maxym Sembaliuk is built of an intricate set of two-dimensional anodized aluminum tiles in the shape of Congruence (geometry), congruent equilater ...

, the first physical structure designed entirely with computer-aided geometric modeling software.

References

External links

The Ron Resch Paper and Stick Film

Ron Resch Official Web Site (restored recently)

Some of Resch's works
1939 births 2009 deaths American computer scientists Origami artists University of Utah faculty {{compu-scientist-stub