Gerardo asked:
>So what do you think? In an example like the one I explained would it be
unethical for the psychologist to use the model without asking Mr. Ecija?
>Would it not be? Please let me know your thoughts through the list or by
sending me a message to gerardo(a)neorigami.com
It's a bit
Seth wrote:
>Wiring and/or gluing, acid free paper etc. are definitely necessary for
long living origami works.
Can I offer you another perspective? Acid free paper is paper so folding it
is, of course, paperfolding.
However, supporting an origami structure with wires, especially concealed
wire
"Robert J. Lang" said:
>Another For some display artworks, I will glue wires inside the folds,
striving to tuck them far enough inside that they're not visible. The wire
then takes the strains of gravity that would have been borne by the paper,
and prevents long-term sagging. The glue also provid
"Gerardo @neorigami.com" wrote:
>Thanks to David's message, I was able to find a wonderful article of his
authorship I had once read and enjoyed ver much! Design Styles
Overview: http://origamiheaven.com/designstylesoverview.htm
In the article David calls this style "pictorial origami"
>I'm su
H ... isn't the phrase 'unrelieved stress' tautological? Surely all
stress is unrelieved? Otherwise it wouldn't be stress?
So, surely we are simply talking about creating curves through creating
stress? In which case the phrase 'dry tension' is also one word too long.
'Tension' does the job ni
Hans was kind enough to mention my book Origami
Alfresco in connection with this thread.
Although he is correct that
>Dave Mitchell calls it ... sketching without pen or ink
that idea came from the late Eric Kenneway who, I believe, called it
'drawing with paper' ... which is the term I would n
Ken Fan asked:
Who invented the "one-fold elephant"?
That would be me.
I have a page on minimalist designs including several other single fold ones
here ... http://origamiheaven.com/minimalistorigami.htm
This is one of many topic pages the index for which is ...
http://origamiheaven.com/designs
Gerardo wrote:
>I don't think that happens in such a way with many other models even if
they have generic names
We already have, for instance, Molly Kahn's Hexahedron, Paul Jackson's Cube,
Neale's Octahedron, Joisel's Rat and many more ... but I agree that it is
pretty random.
I do however thin
Joan Sallas wrote:
>Is not a though, but a documented evidence that 1721 children threw paper
trough the high windows in the school Paedagogium Regium in Halle/Saale
(Germany), where the >foldig art was teached as recreation.
Yes, I understand. So it is possible (perhaps even likely) that these
Joan Sallas wrote:
>The model "Wurfpfeil" (dart to throw) was published in Hermann Wagner's
Book "Illustrirtes Spielbuch f?r Knaben" (Leipzig: Otto Spamer, 1864.
>1st edition, page 283
Thank you. I take it this is the earliest publication that we know of ... in
Europe at least.
If so then it i
Joseph Wu said:
>Paper airplanes were known as paper darts long before airplanes were
invented.
Is it possible to post details of the evidence for this?
Thanks
Dave
Michila Caldera asked:
> Do you know what she called it back in 1967? I'd like to use that name
since it's the first reference I know of.
No specific name is given in the Origamian. It is just identified as a
hexahedron.
I feel we should call it Molly Kahn's Hexahedron ... which is already in u
Richard Kennedy wrote:
>Tom Hull (in his book "Project Origami", Activity 14, p. 139-151) states
that the creator is Molly Kahn, but doesn't appear to give a creation date,
or where diagrams first appeared.
Yes, this is Molly Kahn's Hexahedron.
It has been published many times ... among others i
Scott Cramer wrote:
>A functional footbridge, made of paper. No folding necessary!
>http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/05/paperbridge-a-load-bearing-arch-of-pa
per-sheets-spans-an-english-creek/
>I don't know if it's art, but I like it.
This was built very close to where I live in the English
A much-updated new version of my Origami Heaven website is now available at
origamiheaven.com/index.htm
Please check it out and let me know if you find any errors or encounter any
problems accessing it.
Thanks.
Dave
Saadya wrote:
>HEART of origami? Heavens, no. I am pressing one EDGE of paperfolding.
I like this response!
This is how I often feel as well.
Dave
Ronald Koh wrote:
>Perhaps if your father had not stepped in
>as your retoucher and left the job to you, your views would have been
>markedly different from those of us who were left to our own devices.
A quick clarification. My father was a retoucher (of colour film
separations) by professio
Sorry for the slow replies. I have been on holiday.
Chris Lott wrote:
>This strikes me not as contradictory but disconnected. Or at least
potentially so. A model can have an elegant folding sequence, it can be an
elegant model when finished, or both (or neither).
This is true, of course, but th
gera...@neorigami.com asked about the original creator of the six waterbomb
octahedron.
I have researched this and can confirm that as far as is known it was first
discovered by Robert E Neale in about 1965. Kunihiko Kasahara discovered it
for himself shortly thereafter but I understand that he ha
Thus sprach Robert Lang
>For myself, one of the things I love about origami is its diversity, and I
>judge different works by different standards. A simple Robinson fold, an
>elegant Montroll design, a supercomplex Kamiya artwork: these are all
>beautiful examples of origami, and I can't imagine t
In response to Joel there is also this on the net about Tolstoy and
cockerels:
The pianist Alexander Gol'denveizer recorded this episode from 1896:
Once I met Lev Nikolaevich [Tolstoy] in the street. He again asked me to
walk with him. We were somewhere near the Novinsky Boulevard, and Lev
Nikol
Ronald Koh wrote:
>The question to you, David is, exactly what do you consider to be the
'heart of what origami is', and 'what origami actually is'?
Yes, those are interesting questions ... and not really questions with
answers that can be fully explored in a brief email, I'm afraid.
But if I ha
If Robert is collecting opinions I am happy to offer one. It's an
interesting question that goes to the heart of what origami is.
I always use the term design for the ... ahem ... design part of origami and
realisation for the folding bit. I think it's useful to make a distinction
between the desi
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