Re: [Origami] History of Origami
Origami by Torimoto and Duke has a pretty good section on the history of origami. Complete Origami by Kenneway has good sections of history peppered throughout the book.
Re: [Origami] History of Origami
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Anna origa...@gmail.com wrote: very often I receive requests from high school students to name a couple of books about the history of Origami for some school projects they are working on. Do not forget the BOS collection of David Lister's essays: http://www.britishorigami.info/academic/lister/index.php Huge range of topics, lots for students to dig around in! Anne
Re: [Origami] History of Origami
Hello, thanks for the answers I got so far regarding books about Origami history. Unfortunately those students are not allowed to refer to online sources (stupid I know), therefore the Lister List - even though it is the best source of Origami history I'm aware of - is out of the question. Maybe it would be possible that the BOS publishes all the essays as a booklet some day. This would be something they would be allowed to use, even though it would be exactly the same content, but hey, someone printed it out and sells it, this information must be valuable. Ironic but true. I'd be glad to get more recommendations about books on Origami history. Nice Greetings Anna
Re: [Origami] History of Origami
2014-11-16 21:02 GMT+01:00 Chris Lott ch...@chrislott.org: Could you possibly also share the list of books? Sure thing: Notes on the History of Origami, John S. Smith, BOS #1 The Origami Bible, Nick Robinson, ISBN 1-58180-517-9 Origami Odyssey, Peter Engel, ISBN 978-0-8048-4119-1 Papiroflexia, Eduardo Clemente (Spanish) Folding Universe, Peter Engel, ISBN 0-394-75751-3 Here are the other recommendations I got so far: Origami Torimoto Duke Complete Origami Eric Kenneway Origami Omnibus Kunihiko Kasahara Origami from Angelfisch to Zen Peter Engel Gefaltete Schönheit Joan Sallas Thanks to everyone who sent me recommendations so far. If anyone knows any more books about the history of Origami I'll be glad to add them to the list. Nice Greetings Anna
[Origami] Vote for origami in the Vizzies
Hi folks, I work with the nice folks at Brigham Young University on some research projects funded by the US National Science Foundation, and the NSF co-sponsors an international competition on visualization in the world of science and engineering, called the Vizzies. The BYU folks submitted a video, and it was selected as one of the ten finalists! They've now opened the voting to the public. So I'm encouraging (asking? requesting?) everyone to visit the contest website (https://review.wizehive.com/voting/nsfvizziesgallery/27429) and vote for the origami entry! (Hint #1: it's the one that looks like the offspring of a flasher and a spacecraft. Hint #2: it's titled How origami is inspiring scientific creativity. Hint #3: You can also see the video and vote on this page: https://review.wizehive.com/voting/view/nsfvizziesgallery/27429/2436540/0.) Feel free to pass this link (and voting recommendation) on, and thanks in advance! (There are some other pretty cool visualizations there as well.) Enjoy, Robert
[Origami] Fwd: Origami history
A copy of my answer to Anna: From: Glenn McNitt n...@mindspring.com Date: November 16, 2014 at 2:45:41 PM EST To: origa...@gmail.com origa...@gmail.com Subject: Origami history Books with Origami history: NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF ORIGAMI, JOHN S. SMITH, BOS #1 THE ORIGAMI BIBLE, NICK ROBINSON, ISBN 1-58180-517-9 ORIGAMI ODYSSEY, PETER ENGEL, ISBN 978-0-8048-4119-1 PAPIROFLEXIA, EDUARDO CLEMENTE (Spanish) FOLDING UNIVERSE, PETER ENGEL, ISBN 0-394-75751-3 I hope you can get some of these books. I hope this will get you started. If you have any questions, email me. Glenn McNitt Glenn's iPad
Re: [Origami] History of Origami (FWD)
Forwarding for Yahoo user Laura sea4...@yahoo.com From: Anna origa...@gmail.com: Unfortunately those students are not allowed to refer to online sources (stupid I know), therefore the Lister List - even though it is the best source of Origami history I'm aware of - is out of the question. Maybe it would be possible that the BOS publishes all the essays as a booklet some day. This would be something they would be allowed to use, even though it would be exactly the same content, but hey, someone printed it out and sells it, this information must be valuable. Ironic but true. Your school may be right in banning or limiting that practice because the information that is found online is often full of non-checked data. David Lister was very concerned with accuracy. I remember how suspicious he was about data found in Wikipedia. I believe he considered his own essays to be a work in the making, and he had a reason for that. The information about the history of origami is scarce and full of holes and uncertainties. I may be wrong, but I think that was the main reason why he never published a hard copy book. There are books out there that basically have copied chunks of information from older books and websites, and you know the more a story is repeated the more seems true. This doesn't mean a book on the history of origami will never become a reality, but a good one should be one with a lot of footnotes, for a honest start. Laura Rozenberg
Re: [Origami] History of Origami
Origami from Angelfish to Zen Peter Engel Excelent content about origami history!!! 2014-11-16 18:24 GMT-02:00, Anna origa...@gmail.com: 2014-11-16 21:02 GMT+01:00 Chris Lott ch...@chrislott.org: Could you possibly also share the list of books? Sure thing: Notes on the History of Origami, John S. Smith, BOS #1 The Origami Bible, Nick Robinson, ISBN 1-58180-517-9 Origami Odyssey, Peter Engel, ISBN 978-0-8048-4119-1 Papiroflexia, Eduardo Clemente (Spanish) Folding Universe, Peter Engel, ISBN 0-394-75751-3 Here are the other recommendations I got so far: Origami Torimoto Duke Complete Origami Eric Kenneway Origami Omnibus Kunihiko Kasahara Origami from Angelfisch to Zen Peter Engel Gefaltete Schönheit Joan Sallas Thanks to everyone who sent me recommendations so far. If anyone knows any more books about the history of Origami I'll be glad to add them to the list. Nice Greetings Anna
Re: [Origami] History of Origami (FWD)
2014-11-16 22:15 GMT+01:00 Laura sea4...@yahoo.com Your school may be right in banning or limiting that practice because the information that is found online is often full of non-checked data. Oh, that's a misunderstanding. I'm in no way related any school nor the students that contact me. I'm a paper folder, author of the book Origami - Neue Ideen für originelle Falt-Objekte, administrator of the English Origami Forum, moderator of the German Origami Mailing List and co-author of the Origami Austria website, but I'm neither a student nor a teacher. Nice Greetings Anna from Vienna / Austria http://origami.at
Re: [Origami] History of Origami
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Ricardo Borges origami...@gmail.com wrote: Origami from Angelfish to Zen Peter Engel Excelent content about origami history!!! Not exactly. Peter Engel's book is a fascinating read, and full of interesting ideas about the psychology of creativity, patterns in nature, etc. But as I think Peter will readily admit, much of the historical information is based on sources that turned out to be inaccurate. And that's not really his fault-- there was a lot of misinformation floating around, often from sources that seemed reliable, and not much hard evidence was known or publicly available. Earlier in this thread, Laura Rozenberg commented that information that is found online is often full of 'non-checked' data. IMHO, the history sections of most origami books demonstrate that this phenomenon is by no means restricted to the internet ;) If you want good recent research, here's some things to look for: Koshiro Hatori had a really good article in the 5OSME proceedings titled A History of Origami in the East and West before Interfusion. Joan Sallas' book Gefaltete Schoenheit (2010) is a fantastic historical account, especially of the napkin-folding tradition in central Europe before 1800, but it's in German. However, much of this material is summarized in The Beauty of the Fold: A Conversation with Joan Sallas (2012) edited by Charlotte Birnbaum. http://www.amazon.com/The-Beauty-Fold-Conversation-Sallas/dp/1934105988 Also, if you're an OrigamiUSA member, I wrote an article for The Fold a couple years ago which incorporates many ideas from these two authors' research: https://origamiusa.org/thefold/article/origami-history-yoshizawa -- Andrew __ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahudson http://ahudsonorigami.wordpress.com/
[Origami] Doing origami with aluminium sheet for embossing?
Hi guys, I bought a sheet of aluminium for embossing. It's thicker than aluminium foil for the kitchen. Who of you have tried origami with these sheets before? 1. What tips can you give me when working with it? 2. I was thinking about trying to fold Kamiya's Golden Retriever with a square of that material. What do you think? Is it possible? Would it be doable with a 25 x 25 cm (10 x 10 in) square? 3. I was also thinking that I shouldn't try to waste my time with precreasing for references. Instead of that I should just try to find the reference points with a ruler and mark them with a pen with ink for example. Is that a good idea? 4. Should I think about using some sort of instruments for folding it (like a ball-tip embossing tool for premarking or pliers maybe)? I really need your help guys : )
Re: [Origami] Doing origami with aluminium sheet for embossing?
On 17/11/14 01.28, Gerardo @neorigami.com wrote: I bought a sheet of aluminium for embossing. It's thicker than aluminium foil for the kitchen. Who of you have tried origami with these sheets before? I once tried folding from beer cans: http://papirfoldning.dk/ugensfold/ugensfold.html?page=2011-17lang=en While probably your embossing aluminium is more durable, I suspect many of the same problems and strengths apply. 1. What tips can you give me when working with it? The can-metal wears out after just one fold back and forth, so I had to avoid precreasing and to avoid reversing any existing fold. Instead: - Study the model to see where the parts should end, and push them directly there. - Locks often require forcing the paper while tucking some flap in. Not good. Instead, rely on the metal holding a fold in the extreme, i.e. just push it into the position where you need it. - The exception beeing curve locks, i.e. those where a flap is locked by curving the flap perpendicular to the flap. The typical example is the outer triangle flap of the traditional drinking cup http://papirfoldning.dk/diagrammer/diagrammer.html?page=drikkebaeger01lang=en If you study the boat on my page, you will see that while it resembles a traditional boat (which is usually folded by turning it inside out, a no-go here), it has been modified to comply with the constraints of the metal properties. How thick is your metal sheet? Some time ago I bought a sheet of copper, thinking the softer metal would behave better than aluminium. Unfortunately, this sheet is awfully thick, 0.3 mm as I remember. Also, I have not yet tried to fold it. 2. I was thinking about trying to fold Kamiya's Golden Retriever with a square of that material. What do you think? Is it possible? Would it be doable with a 25 x 25 cm (10 x 10 in) square? I don't know the model, but if it can be pushed together, then yes. Maybe modify the folding. 3. I was also thinking that I shouldn't try to waste my time with precreasing for references. Instead of that I should just try to find the reference points with a ruler and mark them with a pen with ink for example. Is that a good idea? - If landmarks are needed, it is definitely better to draw them than to precrease. 4. Should I think about using some sort of instruments for folding it (like a ball-tip embossing tool for premarking or pliers maybe)? - Some kind of scoring may help you control the creases while folding. How hard to score? You will have to experiment with your sheet. Best regards, Hans Hans Dybkjær papirfoldning.dk
