I'm working on some illustrations for a theoretical physicist named Brian Greene and I was playing around with creating a Calabi Yau manifold. In the process I accidently created this crumpled paper effect.
This is an animation my wife Dina and I did as an experiment for a class she is teaching. We worked pretty rapidly - over a two hour span - with minimal resources to simulate what the people in the class could accomplish in a similar amount of time.