Ron Resch

{{short description|American computer scientist}}

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|name=Ron Resch

|image=Vegreville egg large.jpg

|caption=Vegreville egg

|birth_name=Ronald Dale Resch

|birth_date=1939

|death_date={{death-date and age|November 24, 2009|1939}}

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Ron Resch (Ronald Dale Resch) was an artist, computer scientist, and applied geometrist, known for his work involving folding paper, origami tessellations and 3D polyhedrons.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JPVEfrWnPwYC&dq=ron+resch&pg=PA136 | title=Unfolded: Paper in Design, Art, Architecture and Industry | isbn=9783034609050 | accessdate=13 November 2013| last1=Schmidt | first1=Petra | last2=Stattmann | first2=Nicola | date=5 November 2012 | publisher=Walter de Gruyter }}{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RDv-iZk-ptkC&dq=ron+resch&pg=PT140 | title=The Mereon Matrix: Unity, Perspective and Paradox | isbn=9780124046887 | accessdate=13 November 2013| last1=Dennis | first1=Lynnclaire | last2=McNair | first2=Jytte Brender | last3=Kauffman | first3=Louis H. | date=21 May 2013 | publisher=Newnes }}{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tz76s0ZGFiQC&dq=ron+resch&pg=PA336 | title=Connections: The Geometric Bridge Between Art and Science| isbn=9789812811394| last1=Kappraff| first1=Jay| year=2001| publisher=World Scientific}}{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pW_0EisSP4IC&dq=ron+resch&pg=PA117 | title=Hinged Dissections: Swinging and Twisting| isbn=9780521811927| last1=Frederickson| first1=Greg N.| date=26 August 2002| publisher=Cambridge University Press}}

{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r-k4GSYaV5YC&dq=ron+resch&pg=PA456 | title=Origami 5: Fifth International Meeting of Origami Science, Mathematics, and| isbn=9781568817149| last1=Wang-Iverson| first1=Patsy| last2=Lang| first2=Robert J.| date=21 June 2011| publisher=CRC Press}}{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I1fj_B60fyoC&dq=ron+resch&pg=PA332 | title=The Mathematical Experience, Study Edition| isbn=9780817682941| last1=Davis| first1=Philip| last2=Hersh| first2=Reuben| last3=Marchisotto| first3=Elena Anne| date=27 October 2011| publisher=Springer}}{{cite book|author1=Richard Rhoad|author2=George Milauskas|author3=Robert Whipple|name-list-style=amp|title=Geometry: for Enjoyment and Challenge|publisher=Mc Dougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin|year=1991|edition=new|pages=[https://archive.org/details/geometryforenjoy00geor/page/318 318]|chapter=7 - Polygons: Regular Polygons|isbn=978-0-86609-965-3|chapter-url-access=registration|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/geometryforenjoy00geor/page/318}}

Resch studied art at the University of Iowa receiving his Master of Fine Arts. Subsequently, he was a professor of architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he was affiliated with the Coordinated Science Laboratory. He went on to become a professor of computer science at the University of Utah.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SuVUAAAAMAAJ&q=ron+resch | title=Studio Potter | year=1981 | publisher=Daniel Clark Foundation | accessdate=13 November 2013}}

He famously designed the Vegreville egg, the first physical structure designed entirely with computer-aided geometric modeling software.