Re: [Origami] Summary of an origami challenge in Bogota

[Gerardo @neorigami.com]

Robert Lang answered my message about the origami challenge hosted by the
Japan Center of the Andes University here in Bogotá (Colombia). He noted
how in prehistoric times (haha) there had been a challenge for a working
origami pedal bin and that he didn't recall having seen one aside from the
one I folded for the recent challenge in my city. Thank you Robert and to
everyone who left their reaction on the Facebook submission! I'm very
flattered : )

So, actually Ilan Garibi had created one before me. Along with another
model, he submitted it to the Inter-forum Useful Model Challenge back in
2012. He named his model "Garbage Can". The diagrams were published the
year after in the resulting book: "Practigami". I don't know if someone has
attempted creating a working pedal bin aside from Ilan and me, but I'd love
to know! Does anyone have any information about other origami pedal bins?

I must confess (sorry Ilan) that I wasn't too satisfied with Garibi's
design. That was what moved me to create my own version back in 2013 and I
improved its mechanism in 2015. Now, when I create a model I have
occasionally done something that most origamists don't do: include
non-foldable materials. For example, "Shadow box" includes Plexiglass.
That's also the case with "Pedal bin", it includes some grey board
reinforcements, a single Formica reinforcement, and a coin as well.

Maybe someone else has already created or can create a working origami
pedal bin that doesn't need those materials or that many paper sheets (five
in total). I'd love to see that!

-- 
Gerardo
gerardo(a)neorigami.com

Re: [Origami] Summary of an origami challenge in Bogota

[Robert Lang]

Thus spake "Origami on behalf of Gerardo @neorigami.com" 
mailto:origami-boun...@lists.digitalorigami.com>
 on behalf of gera...@neorigami.com> on 6/17/20, 
12:48 PM:


I also participated in the challenge. You actually helped me choose one of the 
photographs/folds at the beginning of April . These were the two models that I 
submitted:
…
"Pedal bin": https://www.facebook.com/neorigami2/posts/3462357663780187

Way back in the past when dinosaurs walked the earth and Paul Jackson edited 
British Origami Magazine, Paul had a challenge column called “Whodunnit,” and 
one of his challenges was a working pedal bin. I don’t recall ever seeing one 
implemented. This one is very nice! So it’s neat to see that subject finally 
checked off the list.

Best regards,

Robert

[Origami] Summary of an origami challenge in Bogota

[Gerardo @neorigami.com]

Yesterday the Japan Center of the Andes University (Bogotá) announced the
winners of their origami challenge. One of the sponsors of the challenge
was the Japan embassy here in Colombia. It was a folds challenge; so you
could perfectly submit your folds of models created by others. The whole
activity was through Facebook and Instagram.

The challenge started on March 31 and the submission deadline was on May
25. There were four categories: (1) basic and traditional, (2)
intermediate, (3) advanced, and (4) creative (not the same as
creating/designing in origami).

Four galleries resulted from the submitted folds:

Animals: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1362703637452256=3

Fantastic animals:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1362732624116024=3

Characters and flowers:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1362739860781967=3

Geometric: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1362746134114673=3


The two judges of the challenge were the Colombian origamists

Diana Gamboa: https://www.instagram.com/dianagamboaorigami/

Alexander Rodríguez: https://www.facebook.com/alexander.r.riano.3



The winners were: (1) Luis Alejandro Aroca Chacón with his fold of a frog
and a flower (basic and traditional), (2) David Alexander Prieto Muñoz with
his fold of a humanoid being (intermediate), (3) Andrés Sierra with his
fold of Satoshi Kamiya's "Ryūjin" 3.5 (advanced), (4) Lina María González
with her fold and coloring of a bear and a cub.

You can congratulate the winners and take a look at the winning folds here:
https://www.facebook.com/centrodeljaponuniandes/posts/1364222597300360


I also participated in the challenge. You actually helped me choose one of
the photographs/folds at the beginning of April . These were the two models
that I submitted:

"Landscape": https://www.facebook.com/neorigami2/posts/3462343960448224

"Pedal bin": https://www.facebook.com/neorigami2/posts/3462357663780187


-- 
Gerardo
gerardo(a)neorigami.com