[Origami] finding an explanation for not liking golden ventures

2022-02-22 Thread Laura R
I don’t like the golden venture technique and their results but I don’t know why. Has anyone tried a rationale for this kind of feeling? If it’s a feeling, is it a prejudice? Each unit is an origami, they interlock to create modular shapes… so why is that I don’t accept it? Other modulars ha

Re: [Origami] finding an explanation for not liking golden ventures

2022-02-22 Thread Kate Honeyman
Not sure, I feel the same way. But then I don't care for modulars particularly. I cut up a bunch of paper to make one once and discovered I was not good at making all exactly the same, and had a lot of trouble with visualizing how to use colors etc. Maybe I just need to try harder. Their origin sto

Re: [Origami] finding an explanation for not liking golden ventures

2022-02-22 Thread Paul Vincent
I wouldn’t say I dislike the technique, as such, but I have an idea why I have no interest in it. It occurs to me that each unit is directly analogous to a Lego brick, and in the same way that Lego bricks can be used to build just about any form that you can imagine, by simply interlocking them tog

Re: [Origami] finding an explanation for not liking golden ventures

2022-02-22 Thread Mary E. Palmeri
Good analysis Paul; I would agree. I enjoy the GV models I have seen - they can get very elaborate! - but I have absolutely no interest in making them. I truly love the satisfying results from folding a square or two that creates a single stunning model. Mary Ellen On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 6:22