[Origami] Explosion at the origami factory (origami cartoon sighting)

2015-02-01 Thread Michael Sanders
Yesterday's Brevity comic: http://www.gocomics.com/brevity/2015/01/31 http://havepaperwilltravel.blogspot.com/2015/02/sunday-funnies_6.html michael http://havepaperwilltravel.blogspot.com/search/label/cartoons

Re: [Origami] Self similarity in a smaller scale models

2015-02-01 Thread Andrew Hudson
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 6:36 AM, Garibi Ilan garibii...@gmail.com wrote: I am about to teach the concept of self similarity in origami. (snip) Do you have any idea what is the simplest model to demonstrate this concept? Hi Ilan, It's very simple to create a self-similar spiral from any

Re: [Origami] Self similarity in a smaller scale models

2015-02-01 Thread Galen Pickett
...all of these models fail the most basic test for self-similarity... at best we can say that each of these displays self similarity at a single point. A *very* simple and truly self similar model is the dragon curve from a strip of paper. A *very* complex and hard to execute model would be a