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Jul. 17th, 2008 @ 01:11 pm
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Hello. I'm new to this community. I've been folding for quite a few years now; I tend to prefer simple, elegant designs as opposed to those that have you inside reverse folding through ten layers of paper by the end and end up cramped and wrinkled. I read somewhere on the net that a folder named Valerie Vann had a design called a Magic Rose Cube, a box that opened up into a rose. Does anyone know where I could find the diagram for this?
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PCOC 2009
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Jul. 13th, 2008 @ 03:45 pm
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Does anybody have info about the next PCOC? Location? Date? Anything?Current Mood:  curious |
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New folds
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Jul. 4th, 2008 @ 11:23 am
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Paper up for grabs!
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Jun. 23rd, 2008 @ 01:05 pm
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Hey all....I have a bunch of paper up for grabs for free to anyone in the Atlanta area.....let me know! |
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Help with folding something
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Jun. 20th, 2008 @ 05:06 pm
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Hi~ I recently came across a diagram that I wanted to fold but I don't understand most of the steps! Is there anyone that can help me out?
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Hi! I'm completely new to this group, and to origami, really. To make a long story short, I need an easy pattern for an origami plumeria flower. I'd like to make a paper lei for my boyfriend. Can anyone help me? Thanks!
Jun. 19th, 2008 @ 02:38 pm
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| » blue rose |
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Sunday evening finished another one square rose, this time from a 10 inch backcoated square of blue and green mulberry tissue. I also included the thorns this time, which was a bit of a pain. Diagrams found on a forum thread.
( pictures )
Jun. 16th, 2008 @ 11:18 pm
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| » SQUID! |
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Back in school, I used to play a game where I'd have someone name an animal, which I would proceed to fold. Needless to say, I was a very popular kid ;).
Most were folded from memory out of a repitoire culled from about a million origami books I had constantly on their third renewal from the library, or adapted from the same; once in a while I'd make something up from scratch (this is kind of where my Dragon comes from, as well as my sadly lost-forever kangaroo).
Invariably, I'd go a few rounds of this, and then people would pick one of a handful of absolute stumpers. The worst was the squid.
Well, I was playing around with some paper this morning, and I think I did it. It's very stylized, but I think it is recognizable enough as to count.
( Photo... )
Jun. 12th, 2008 @ 07:45 pm
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| » Origami Now! |
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I thought you all might enjoy the pictures I took when I recently visited the Origami Now! exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. If you live in the area, I recommend it, but it's only showing through this weekend (June 8th).
Jun. 4th, 2008 @ 11:00 pm
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| » Origami X-Wing |
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For all Star Wars Fans :)
Origami X-Wing instructions
Jun. 5th, 2008 @ 12:21 am
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| » Delicious fractal origami at YouTube |
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And it's fairly simple -- it's just a delight, though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_zpCKE8SCA
Rather birdy-froggy sort of base that ends up fractalizing in a lovely way.
Jun. 4th, 2008 @ 03:11 pm
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( Big business card cube )
Last year, the place I work changed its phone system, and ended up having to throw away a LOT of business cards with out-of-date extensions. At the time, I saved as many as I could, thinking there had to be something interesting to do with them. I found the business card cube module and played around a bit (I think I posted pics of some tetris pieces I made back then).
I was cleaning house this weekend and found a box of them I'd missed at the time, so today I made this cube. (I suppose if you were being incredibly precious you could even call it a "depth one Menger sponge.") Fun way to waste some time listening to podcasts, and a nice conversation-piece on the shelf.
Jun. 2nd, 2008 @ 12:48 am
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Was messing around a bit last night when I folded a frog base and thought it was rather a pretty shape:
( Crease pattern ... )
ETA: The fractal bird base collapses more easily from the edges to the center. This one, you'll want to collapse starting in the center and working towards the edges. It goes together fairly neatly, too. I haven't found any places where you sit there swearing and wishing you were triple-jointed.
ETA2: The bright green lines are also valley folds; I just highlighted them so you could see how the center part was a frog base on point, and the edge bits were half-frog bases reduced by root-2.
ETA3: RAUGH. Doesn't converge on a square damn it. Octagon. *rolls eyes at self*
May. 28th, 2008 @ 03:06 pm
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| » Origami Balls |
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I found out that a lot of people google the phrase "origami balls" and (after I stopped snickering at the quasi-obscene search term) I made a site that approaches a couple different strategies to folding paper spheroids. Please check it out and help me make it better.
I cover the waterbomb base, some modular kusudama and then allude to a kind that totally boggles me.
origami balls - how to fold paper balls
I'm thinking about adding a section devoted to the famous monolithic stone boulder.
May. 20th, 2008 @ 09:21 am
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Hi everyone.
I'm taking a web design class and for my final we had the choice to make any sort of webpage we wanted. I chose an origami instruction one. It's not finished yet, but it's far enough along that I thought it's posted. I specifically wanted to avoid origami terminology (valley fold, etc), in favor of descriptions that didn't require knowledge of special terms. I was originally going to have two constructions in each of the categories (cube and toshi's jewel in beginner, stellated octahedron and stellated icosahedron in intermediate) but I'll probably wind up with just one of each. I realize people have vastly different opinions on the definition of beginner and intermediate, but thats what I chose. Questions, comments?
http://web.simmons.edu/~smiley2/index.html
May. 1st, 2008 @ 03:18 pm
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| » New Origami |
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These are a few of my foil foldings:
1. a scorpion
2. a dragon
3. a praying mantis
4. a griffin
these four are modified folds from other folds and some of my own twists and folds added into it...hope you enjoy them!
Sincerely,
Spoon!
Apr. 24th, 2008 @ 06:34 pm
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| » Feed Me! |
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Inspired by (and coveting) ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rcdspoon's version, I played around a bit until I came up with my own:
( Audrey II )
Plant folded from a single square of tissue-foil-tissue. No diagrams yet, but it starts out exactly the same as my Drake, up to step 9.
Apr. 21st, 2008 @ 08:15 am
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