In time, a semblance of order emerged. Crumpled wads of paper are no doubt as old and commonplace as paper itself – “graves for failed theories”, Gottesman, a physicist, has called them.

A crumpled paper facade features on The Paintworks, a residential and office building by architecture studio DROO in east London.

Citation: "Three-dimensional structure of a sheet crumpled into a ball." By Anne Dominique Cambou and Narayanan Menon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Vol. 108 No. 33, August 23, 2011.

From studies of “geometric frustration,” scientists learn how paper folds under pressure. By Siobhan Roberts A piece of crumpled paper, in all of its creased fragmentations, suffers from ...