Or, how not to name things.

There is no real need for the rainbow hex box to be haxagonal, and even less need for it to be rainbow-coloured, but the one I had lying around was both, so that's what it got called inside my head.

Anyway, have some diagrams!

Rainbow hex box diagram (pdf)

These have a name which makes even less sense. It is a story involving acronyms, indecision, and homemade fudge.

Rum & Raisin Units diagram (pdf)

Although I used A4 paper, they will work just as well with other comparable sizes - 2x3, 3x4, American letter-size paper, or whatever type of rectangle is easily available to you should be fine.

It's that time of year -- Time to make ornaments! Also, I'll be getting married this year and I plan on making as many origami decorations as I can.

This is probably a stupid question, but what is the best type of glue to use to keep modular projects together?

I have 3 sets of cute anime or cute origami paper from Japan. There are stickers included. I ship from NYC and I have 100% positive feedback in my journal. I take paypal, postal money order and concealed cash. Please let me know if you're interested. All for $12 shipping included.

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Thank you!

First up! A box-type thing. I tried to make these units into polyhedra, but they were grieviously fiddly to assemble and unstable once you got them together. They work a bit better as a box.

( Rainbow hexagonal box )

( Twelve units on the left, thirty units on the right )

( Twelve, twelve, six and twelve )

( Thirty, twelve and twenty four )

( Twenty four, twelve and thirty )

So there we are. If you fancy a diagram or crease pattern for anything, just yell!

Anyone have any suggestions on models that might work good to create table centerpieces for a wedding reception? Or pictures of beautiful centerpieces you've seen that have origami in them?

Can anyone offer some good tried and true ones for a beginner? Or links to a page with such? I googled it, but a lot of them (what worked of the pages, anyway) were pretty terrible, I couldn't even do them with the help of two friends who are also origami beginners.

Appreciate it! :)

(Yes, they're not in the traditional 25 strings of 40, but that's on purpose because it's meant as a door/wall hanging.)

I finally folded my first official 1,000 cranes!  Not for me, though - these ones are going to be auctioned off at the Festival of Trees.  All the money goes to the American Cancer Society, so I thought it rather fitting to do cranes for an art piece this year.  My mom suggested the colors.  If I had been able to get a whiter pearlized-type white, I would be much happier.  A few other random pictures of them are here.  I'm pretty happy with the overall effect, and am thinking very hard about making more for myself and my friends/family in the future.

Here's hoping it auctions high (my origami-decorated chistmas tree went for $300 last year)! 

These are both models designed by the late, great Thoki Yenn. He was a designer with a very unique sensibility and sense of humor. He designed a lot of models based on A4 paper.

This is the dollar bill version of Thoki's Umuliusis Rectangulum. It requires six dollar bills.




And this is Thoki's DNA (double helix), folded from a sheet of A4 paper.

At a recent international event one of the Japanese students folded this origami, which I love: http://www.twitpic.com/i7h6x

Do you know what it's called, or if there's a diagram for it somewhere?

I am running a project at the moment, called ‘Origami 4 Charity’ (O4C for short) http://webspace.webring.com/people/gn/numbojumbo/origami4charity.htm which provides just under 70 suggestions for ways in which origami can be used to benefit worthy charities.

As part of the evolution of the project, the list of ideas now needs origami diagrams/models which could be used copyright free (sort of), so that people could use them to benefit worthy causes with the knowledge that there is already prior consent to use the models for such purposes. I’m hoping that this will be one step closer in making it easier for people to use origami for such charitable purposes.

To this effect then, I've started to provide such a list of models (scroll right down to the bottom of the O4C page) that have this prior consent on the O4C webpage and I’m therefore wondering whether anybody would be gracious enough to donate their models to such a project.

BTW, I’m not asking you to give up your copyright to your creation, all I’m asking for is prior consent so that it removes a potential stumbling block for people having to be bothered to contact the creators of a model. So, the mention of a model in this list will be taken that the person who wishes to use the model for charitable purposes does not need to contact the creator to seek permission. Of course, if you wish, there will still be a way to contact you just out of courtesy to inform you that your model will be used for such and such a charitable purpose.

A few people have already contributed their models to the project. I'm just wondering whether there is anybody on this forum willing to donate their models with prior consent to my O4C project? If so, I hope you will respond to my request above.

Mike