Hi all,
My first post to this list.
Over the holiday period I've been exploring the spiral and conical folds
in Tomoko Fuse's 'Spiral: Origami Art Design' book. I had to write some
computer code to generate the crease patterns, because otherwise it's
hard to experiment with them. I'm printing them on plain paper, with
mountain folds in red, valleys in black.
An unexpected (to me) bonus is that the paper 'wants' to fold along the
printed lines -- at least to some degree. This makes it a little easier
to fold the often intricate patterns. It's obviously nothing like laser
cutting a score pattern, but it's helpful all the same.
Of course to make larger, more presentable models in better suited paper
I'll need to figure out a different approach, but for now I am just
interested to know about others experience with printing crease patterns
on a cheap printer. Are there papers where printing makes folds
particularly easy to make? are there adaptations to inkjet printers
that make printing more like scoring?
Any insights welcome!
David
