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Engineers use origami principles to design spacecraft solar panels and other devices that flex or unfurl. This image won people's choice and people's choice, best overall, in the People's Choice Winner Overall category of the 2015 Visualization Challenge, now called The Vizzies, a long-running, annual competition co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Popular Science.
Image credit: Larry Howell, Julie Walker, Robert Lang, Spencer Magleby and Brian Wilcox
