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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.
As a result from stress and aggrevation I've apparently made a couple of origami sheep while in school.
And I thought they were just cruppled up pieces of paper.
Some aim to please, I aim to tease.
So much folding that it even makes SETI jealous!
please.
ugh
I know what you're all thinking: "Professional paper-folders? How can that be?". Well actually, it's not too difficult for a talented paper-folder to make a decent living touring the competitive oragami circuits and getting endorsement deals with paper companies and such. They're really a lot like pro skateboarders or Nascar drivers, except they get more paper cuts.
You know you spend too much time online when you immediately think of "@home" whenever anyone mentions folding
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??
You crazy man? You piss off supahfly!
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!
This is simply awesome, I look at some of these peices and they resemble 3d models in the sense of polygon modeling. My hats off to those who can do this, because doing it even in the computer is quite a difficult task.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
I can't even take the credit (blame) for this terrible pun. But I can't recall who to attribute it to.
Prime numbers are exactly what Alan Greenspan says they are -S. Minsky
That woman works magic. It's that simple
Check out the "ball"
From the artist's caption:
"This ball is crumpled from a single uncut square. I suggested that they could crumple a ball themselves, but they wanted to defer to "the artist." Who am I to argue?"
These are quite impressive. In clicking around, I happened on this database of origami containing references to more than 23k models.
Recipes for geeks -- no meatloaf, we promise.
How many of these people are Gentoo users that are tying to pick up a hobby as they're compiling.
we are not worthy
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
Apparently so.
"...all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness..." yada yada
I'd actually just started folding a crane while absent-mindedly hitting refresh on slashdot.
It has to be the first origami I've done in a month, and I was thinking of looking up some new things to attempt.
Of course, my favourite is still Yoda (Instructions, pdf).
It doesn't matter how thin the paper, or how big the sheet, you just can't do it. Have fun proving me wrong :)
None of them can compete with the origami boulder!
:)
--krahd
mod me up scottie!
I am rather good at making an oragami boulder. I get to practice almost daily given how much junk mail arrives in my mailbox 6 days a week.
Just got through watching my Blade Runner DVD again.
Remember the origami unicorn? Fold your own.
So why isn't this an Olympic sport? It has all the requirements - drama (is it another freaking crane?), risk of serious injury (paper cuts), and obviously a worldwide following - but most importantly I might even be able to win a medal.
Robots can do it too!
CC.
TaijiQuan (Huang, 5 loosenings)
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
By asking barks to count the sheep, are you trying to put barks to sleep?
You know you've been Slashdotted when.
Database Stats
Total Models: 23521
Total Creators: 1898
Last Search: Model Name: penis
Total Searches to Date: 147243
(google cache from two days ago: 146388)
We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.
Peter Engel's book, Folding the Universe, is the most interesting book on origami that I've ever read. The first half of the book is almost like a
Godel, Escher, Bach for Origami. The models are simply terrific but most of them are ONLY for advanced folders.
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
I'm a paper folder, and I've got to say, right now is a really exciting time for folders. I'm a member of Origami USA which is an organization that, despite it's name, is open to people from all over the world. Every year there's a convention held in New York at the end of June where about 1000 people come together to learn new models, to socialize. and to have fun.
I said it's an exciting time, and that's because for the first time, folders are really starting to explore the bounds of the craft. You've got people like Robert Lang who have been exploring the mathematics and geometry behind origami, and teaching the secrets of creation to others.
You've got people like my friend, Daniel Robinson, who take animals, insects, etc. of a particular species, and instead of trying to create a generic representation, try to get the model to be exact, right down to the length and number of feelers on a frilled longhorn beetle, for example.
And as much as you might not believe it, there are some really hot origami chicks [though they are for the most part drowned out by the rest... ;) ]
See here. :)
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
I'm sorry, but this is slashdot. If I don't link to it, someone else will ;-)
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.
My girlfriend went to the convention with a friend of hers (who was actually teaching there).
There's some more pictures of some of the models that were on display here, some of them are really quite amazing (I especially like the white dragon with all the pleats for scales, impressive...)
I'm suprised at how much press this has been getting, it's kind of nice, since I couldn't go with her I can at least hear about it some. :)
WWJD? JWRTFM!!!
Staying with the made-from-folded-paper-but-not-oragami tangent, here are plans for a working paper trebuchet.
I made one myself, it works pretty well.
Yeah, I have a webcomic...