Origami Lungc ----- Canopy movement

Image 3 (The Emperor’s Origami Lungs): The Emperor’s lungs come alive through differing gestures and surface transformations based on geometrical tessellations adopted from origami crease patterns. The lungs imitate the motion of breathing through expansion and contraction creating a bellowing volume that allows the Emperor to project his emotions both visually and audibly. They rise and fall, creating a bobbing motion, which produces a rippling affect onto the surrounding skin. The severity of these ripples will depend on the anger of the Emperor, and can cause the newly knitted areas of skin to become loose and break, stopping the Princess from ever reaching the cow herder.


I came across this post and it really resonated the idea i had in my mind of the idea that the canopy could expand and contract as required by users ... how i may accomplish this still needs further investigation.