>In the google ngram viewer (a website that let's your search for term in a >large amount of books) I looked up origami, and found in various > languages, that the rise of the term "origami" began in the 1980s [1]
>Does anyone have an idea why that is? Hiya, If I'm reading your graph right the up-swing started in 1983, well Bladerunner came out late 1982. I'd like to think there was a more "wholesome" reason, but that is definitely a movie involving origami that got a lot of traction in the public mind at about the right time. All the best SIMON SCARLE DR SIMON SCARLE rm 2Q20 @SimonScarle @UWEGames @UWEGamesMSc Senior Lecturer in Games Technology Program Leader for MSc Commercial Games Development Computer Science & Creative Technologies University of the West of England Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane Bristol, BS16 1QY simon.sca...@uwe.ac.uk
