Sun Hongtao, a student from Shandong Experimental High School, was admitted in Weihai campus of Harbin Institute of Technology, one of the leading universities in China. Sun Hongtao’s enrolment score was lowered by 60 points because of his outstanding skills in paper-folding, iqilu.com reported on July 11.
Sun explained that his craft is made from a mere square sheet of paper without pasting or clipping. It takes about 20 hours to complete a piece of work from sketch, design and folding.
The student added that paper-folding, which is seemingly simple, involves complicated mathematical and special structural principles that resemble those of machine design, manufacture and automation, the course he has chosen as major.
Although paper-folding is complicated and time-consuming, Sun enjoys it. In order to create live-size paper-folding, Sun has read much English material on the skill, thereby significantly improving his knowledge of geometry and mathematics.
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