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Posted by michael on from the no-spindling-or-mutilating-allowed dept.

There's an origami convention convention underway in Japan this weekend, with some truly impressive pieces on display. There's an AP story, but words don't do it justice. See the personal site of one of the professional paper-folders, or photos taken at a previous convention, or just discover the essence of origami.

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  1. Amazing folding by TimeTrip · · Score: 5, Informative

    Immpressive paper folding! Awesome, but did you know they can also fold SHIRTS impressively?

    Check out the amazing action here

    btw.. i'm not sure if the woman in the video is japanese, but its close enough.. right?? ;)

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  2. Pepakura by iamdrscience · · Score: 4, Informative

    Okay, this isn't really oragami, but it involves building stuff out of paper and it's really nerdy and it's really cool. There's a program called Pepakura that I discovered a while ago that can take any 3D model and make a sheet that you can print out, cut out and fold to make a real-life 3d version of your model. I'm not great with 3D modelling so I couldn't do all that much with it, but it was still pretty fun. IIRC they have a version that's free to download so you can play around with it. Also, as an added bonus their English website is absolutely chock full of bad English translations!

  3. Amazing by qmchenry · · Score: 5, Informative

    These are quite impressive. In clicking around, I happened on this database of origami containing references to more than 23k models.

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  4. Origami on Steroids by Alien54 · · Score: 4, Informative
    Everything you could care to know, including the application of origami to space telescopes.

    we are not worthy

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  5. Eye Candy by oz_ko · · Score: 5, Informative

    Don't say I don't do anything for you boys.
    On the yahoo site link, hit the next button for some Olympic Eye Candy ;)

  6. Re:kinda off topic but try this by Order · · Score: 5, Informative

    try to fold a peice of paper over 7 times

    It doesn't matter how thin the paper, or how big the sheet, you just can't do it. Have fun proving me wrong :)

    Actually, proving you wrong is very easy. Here's your proof!
    On that page you can see a photo of a piece of paper folded 11 times, and a discussion of all the math and physics involved.

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  7. For the rest of us by wombatmobile · · Score: 4, Informative

    File > Print, cut and fold... Yamaha's excellent PaperCraft models are challenging but require no great origami expertise. The results are truly spectacular and will delight your kids or your friends.

    Oh, and PaperCraft is free.