On Apr 19, 2014, at 12:17 PM, Dave Mitchell wrote:
An amusing note - I actually had an artist who was actively working
with
that mixture on a model tell me that if you have to glue a modular
model
together it is not origami. I laughed out loud ...
Oddly (or amusingly??) I have to agree with your artist. To me a
modular design is one that is self-integrating. If you glue it
together then this essential element of what modular means (in
origami) is lost. Technically I would then consider it a glued multi-
piece arrangement rather than a modular assembly.
You have only quoted a part of what I believe John was trying to say.
I think John's point is that a folder he was talking to said one
should not use glue when doing origami yet he/she was using a mixture
of methyl cellulose on a model. Methyl cel is paste.
I have, too, have chuckled at this contradiction.
leslie c
