




Date: Wed, 15 Dec 93 03:10:11 AST
From: dzander@dazzle.sol.net (Douglas Zander)
Subject: Re: Creating diagrams

In <9312141616.AA12129@leo.nmc.edu>, Nancy wrote:
>       I am a new beginner at creating models and was wondering
> if anyone knows of a book that talks about drawing out diagrams
> by hand.  I don't have a harddrive or lazer printer or the bravery
> to try diagraming with a computer program.  In fact, I would rate
> my drawing ability up there with my cooking (my son could tell you
> real horror stories!).  I've been working with graph paper and
> ruler.  But it is difficult to represent several layers of paper.
> I have been measuring the different edges of paper and scaling
> them down after each step.  But this is incredibley time consuming!
> I've thought about photographing each step.  Has anyone tried
> this?
>       I'm at the end of my ruler and graph paper!
>
> Nancy,
>
> P.S.  Thanks to those wanwersed my question about Row's book.
> I think I will take it out the next time I'm in Kalamazoo Mi.
>

   Nancy,
     If you have the money and time how about trying to photocopy the
   steps?  what you might try is to make each step out of a separate piece
   of white (both sides) paper and then at each crease use a black magic
   marker to highlight the folded creases (so as it will show up when photo-
   copying). then you can use a photocopyer that will automatically scale
   down your output. this may take up alot of white paper, I'd suggest using
   typing paper cut square.  just a thought.  hope you find the answer your
   looking for.

  Douglas Zander
  dzander@dazzle.sol.net
  dzander@solaria.milw.wi.us





Date: Wed, 15 Dec 93 10:19:37 AST
From: "Kevin J. Barth" <barth@wam.umd.edu>
Subject: Re: Dollar bill $; 38K PostScript file; anyone?

On Wed, 15 Dec 1993, Andrew P. Anselmo wrote:

> Ok, you money-folders.  I just made another PS diagram of one of the folds
> I came up with; this time, it's a dollar bill sign ($) from a dollar bill.
> I remember reading about such a beastie someplace, but never saw it.  So
> I decided to make one on my own.  If you want the diagram, drop me a line,
> and let me know what you think of the folds and the diagramming.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Andrew Anselmo / Department of Mechanical Engineering / SUNY Stony Brook
>             anselmo@thermsa.eng.sunysb.edu

Along somewhat similar lines, I have the directions for making a child-sized
ring out of a dollar bill.  The effect is pretty good, with the 1 from a
one dollar bill being in place of the gemstone.  It is an oldie, but a
goodie, and makes a cute gift for kids.

If anybody wants the directions (unfortunately, I do not have them in
computer-readable form) drop me a line.  If there is enough interest I
can scan the instructions into a GIF or something.

Kevin Barth
barth@wam.umd.edu





Date: Wed, 15 Dec 93 12:50:08 AST
From: SOYLENT GREEN <RHUDSON@eddie.yorkcol.edu>
Subject: Re: Dollar bill $; 38K PostScript file; anyone?

To Andrew Anselmo:

Send me that diagram!

my land address is :
2860 Stillmeadow Lane
York, PA, 17404..

I'll send you a diagram of one of my original folds, when I get around to
diagramming it with any consistency!

IS MADE OF RHUDSON@YORKCOL.EDU!  IT'S RHUDSON@YORKCOL.EDU!





Date: Thu, 16 Dec 93 09:03:01 AST
From: "B.Ewins" <gapv64@udcf.gla.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Robert Lang's programs

to Tom Hull or whoever -

        If Robert Lang thinks its OK to pass on
these progs, what about the _windows_ versions ?
They exist, (written by Jack Festag if I remember
rightly)... and how about getting both on the
ftp archive ? (risc1.rug.nl run by Maarten van
Gelder as far as I know.)

        Please ?

        Pretty Please?

               ... that's enough grovelling

        Bazza.





Date: Thu, 16 Dec 93 09:22:27 AST
From: "B.Ewins" <gapv64@udcf.gla.ac.uk>
Subject: Origami Food (?!!??)

Hi there,
        I was just wondering if anyone has ever made
any edible 'origami' ... from pastry, rolled marzipan,
etc ? I guess it would have to be something simple,
like for instance the Hawkwing conch from 'Sea Life'
made from sugary pastry and filled with whipped cream
...mmmm

        out to lunch (as usual)
               Bazza.





Date: Thu, 16 Dec 93 19:47:59 AST
From: anselmo@thermsa.eng.sunysb.edu (Andrew P. Anselmo)
Subject: Re: origami database...

Hi all-

Maarten once mentioned something about an origami model database.  Does
such a beastie exist?  Should we start putting one together?  Does FOCA
have one?  If not, maybe we could all get together and start a simple one.
For example, we could have the model name, the creator, and the location
of the diagram (either book, FOCA newsletter, FOCA annual collection,
on-line, etc), and some sort of 'difficulty' rating (although this would
be very subjective).  If we want to get more into this, we can add another
descriptor (such as starting base, action origami, $ fold, multiple sheets,
etc.)  This might prove quite useful to a whole bunch of people.  If we
can agree on a database format, we might be able to get a big database
really fast, with everyone pitching in...

A.

Stay tuned for a $-bill basket (on the heels of the $-bill bull and
the $-bill $).

Andrew Anselmo
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering SUNY Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794
(516)-632-8303
Primary: anselmo@thermsa.eng.sunysb.edu  Secondary:apa1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu





Date: Thu, 16 Dec 93 21:44:10 AST
From: stamm@aol.com
Subject: Online Origami Issue 3

The November issue of Online Origami has been out for several weeks and the
December issue will be out ...soon.  I am discontinuing my account on The
Well.  Therefore I will not have access to FTP.  Is there anyone out there
with a direct network connection,  perferably thru a Macintosh, who could
receive a disk from me and upload it to rugcis?  It simply takes too long
(especially the Postscript version) at 2400 baud to upload it via a modem
(we are talking HOURS!).

Thank you in advance.
Tom Stamm.





Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1993 21:32:22 -0400 (AST)
From: stamm@aol.com
Subject: Re: origami database...

>Maarten once mentioned something about an origami model database.  Does
>such a beastie exist?  Should we start putting one together?

V'Ann Cornelius has compiled an origami bibliography database for
FOCA.
Details for acquisition can be found on her BBS.

The Origami BBS
SysOp: V'Ann Cornelius
Open 8pm to 8am (West Coast)
(619) 753-4419
(9600 baud and down. 8 bit, no parity, 1 stop bit)





Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1993 21:37:56 -0400 (AST)
From: ackerman <ackerman@dorsai.dorsai.org>
Subject: Re: origami database...

>
> Hi all-
>
> Maarten once mentioned something about an origami model database.  Does
> such a beastie exist?  Should we start putting one together?  Does FOCA
> have one?  If not, maybe we could all get together and start a simple one.
> For example, we could have the model name, the creator, and the location
> of the diagram (either book, FOCA newsletter, FOCA annual collection,
> on-line, etc), and some sort of 'difficulty' rating (although this would
> be very subjective).  If we want to get more into this, we can add another
> descriptor (such as starting base, action origami, $ fold, multiple sheets,
> etc.)  This might prove quite useful to a whole bunch of people.  If we
> can agree on a database format, we might be able to get a big database
> really fast, with everyone pitching in...

Such a beastie exists...a big beastie.
FTP rugcis.rug.nl
cd origami
The file you want is dbindex.txt

All this info is in the FAQ which is also found at this site, I think :-)





Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1993 23:51:54 -0400 (AST)
From: SOYLENT GREEN <RHUDSON@eddie.yorkcol.edu>
Subject: RE: Online Origami Issue 3

I've got an IBM that I could use to FTP stuff up with my college account.. if
you've got the time to send it 2400 bps to my home.. leave me mail (my address
is in the tag)..

Rob

IS MADE OF RHUDSON@YORKCOL.EDU!  IT'S RHUDSON@YORKCOL.EDU!





Date: Fri, 17 Dec 93 01:05:39 AST
From: Torphammar Per <peto@telub.se>
Subject: Re: Dollar bill $; 38K PostScript file; anyone?

About folding bills! It happens to be a goose on one side of a swedish 20 kr
bill. The bill can be folded to a nice shirt where the goose's neck become a
very nice tie :-))))
 -Per
Sweden

From: server
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re:  Dollar bill $;  38K PostScript file; anyone?
Date: den 15 December 1993 0.47

Ok, you money-folders.  I just made another PS diagram of one of the folds
I came up with; this time, it's a dollar bill sign ($) from a dollar bill.
I remember reading about such a beastie someplace, but never saw it.  So
I decided to make one on my own.  If you want the diagram, drop me a line,
and let me know what you think of the folds and the diagramming.

A.

 Andrew Anselmo / Department of Mechanical Engineering / SUNY Stony Brook
                     anselmo@thermsa.eng.sunysb.edu





Date: Fri, 17 Dec 93 09:23:54 AST
From: "B.Ewins" <gapv64@udcf.gla.ac.uk>
Subject: dollar bill models

Hello people,

        Andrew Anselmo asked me what the dimensions of
_my_ currency was (British) in the context of dollar
bill models. He thought it might be an idea to post this
and maybe get a list of currencies that might be useful
to fold.
        Unfortunately, the pound note only exists now in
Scotland and Northern Ireland... English and Welsh money
is small and round and very hard to fold :o). But, being
a Scot, I have a small, student sized wedge of notes in
my pocket whose aspect ratios are all

        39:20 ... yes I know this sounds like a really
awkward size and it is. It's definitely _not_ 2:1, you
can see that you dont get a square when you fold it in
half. This is true of 5 pound and 10 pound notes also,
although there are new English 5, 10 ... notes which
are different.
        If anyone out there wants to send me some higher
denomination stuff to look at I'd be most pleased :o)

Now, back to origami...
I've been trying (this morning) to make up a model which
is a ying-yang symbol that folds out into a heart. The
basic idea is the two small semicircles within the y-y
fold up to be the top of the heart, with triangles from
the underside folding out to be the point at the bottom.
(I hope thats clear) Obviously folding a circle from
a square is hard, I was trying to do this with octagons
and semi-octagons. I can get the shape I want easily
enough ( for instance, from a preliminary fold, fold
the front and back flaps up in half... the split part
at the bottom becomes the top of the heart) but getting
the colours right seems really hard. Any ideas ?
( this idea started as a 2 piece "broken heart" locket
that you can put back together as a y-y. No, I couldnt
fold that either.)

This is a total climbdown from my last failed model
which was a man in bed which opened out into a beetle
(the bedposts and his arms became the legs)... a
tribute to Kafka :o)

        Cheers,
               Bazza.





Date: Fri, 17 Dec 93 12:27:01 AST
From: Bill Upton-Knittle <EIW8BUK@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Online Origami Issue 3

Forgive my ignorance...I'm new to the net and this conference.

How/where does one obtain a copy of "Online Origami?"
Thanks.

    Bill Knittle





Date: Fri, 17 Dec 93 13:28:09 AST
From: Alex Barber <barber@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
Subject: Re: Online Origami Issue 3

> The November issue of Online Origami has been out for several weeks and the
> December issue will be out ...soon.  I am discontinuing my account on The
> Well.  Therefore I will not have access to FTP.  Is there anyone out there
> with a direct network connection,  perferably thru a Macintosh, who could
> receive a disk from me and upload it to rugcis?  It simply takes too long
> (especially the Postscript version) at 2400 baud to upload it via a modem
> (we are talking HOURS!).
>
> Thank you in advance.
> Tom Stamm.
>

Tom -

I have net access through dialup and SLIP/PPP on a Mac to a local net
provider.  If you send me a disk and a target ftp site name (ie rugcis) I
can upload the files with Fetch to the ftp site using a 14.4 modem w/
compression, or I can use good ol' rz for my dialup account and then ftp from
there.

Please respond directly to this email address:

barber@sugar.neosoft.com
Alex Barber





Date: Fri, 17 Dec 93 21:37:20 AST
From: Cynthia Pettit <pettit@cs.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Dollar bill $; 38K PostScript file; anyone?

>Ok, you money-folders.  I just made another PS diagram of one of the folds
>I came up with; this time, it's a dollar bill sign ($) from a dollar bill.
>I remember reading about such a beastie someplace, but never saw it.  So
>I decided to make one on my own.  If you want the diagram, drop me a line,
>and let me know what you think of the folds and the diagramming.

Sounds good!  Send one of 'dem on too! :)

Cyn

PS My Xface is my face which can be seen in the program faces for
XWindows.  It's a neat little program which shows a face for every
email message you have in your mail file.  It can also show the face
for the print cue, machine logins, in fact any list of logins you can
output from a script [or so I'm told -- not that good yet. :) ]  If
you're running XWindows, let me know and I'll try to dig up the ftp
site for it. :)

I should get rid of the xface file -- it doesn't work quite right and
the picture I have looks horrible.  But it's supposedly an encoded
face. :)

        "It's not about driving down rt 66 and stopping at the Holiday Inn!
               It's about *adventure*!!"
                          ---Richard P Feynman





Date: Sat, 18 Dec 93 00:53:19 AST
From: Cynthia Pettit <pettit@cs.unc.edu>
Subject: A nice origami story (or "How to cheer up your friends")

            How I Tried To Cheer Up My Depressed Friend
                      By Folding A Lobster

I had a friend who was *always* depressed [that's another story] and
to cheer him up, I took him to the local bakery/coffee shop and
subjected him to folding a lobster with me.  I gave Ken my only red
piece of 10" paper, while taking the yucky [useless] pink paper.  [Why
does my paper pack have *two* shades of pink??]

It took 2 hours and he grumbled the entire time.  He hated especially
the parts where the instructions were like: "#44 -- unfold from
#27-#43." :-\ I tried to explain that this was so the folds are easier
later.  He just hrumfph'ed.  So through this long 2-hour agony I put
him through, we came out the other end with this *dinky* model --
about 4" tip to tail.  "This isn't a lobster," he said, "it's a
*crayfish*..."

By that point he was so disgusted with the entire process he just sat,
mouth drawn down in distaste.  I felt kinda sad, though I knew few
things [if any] cheered him up anyway.  [He was always so depressed,
it was comical.  There was no way you could sympathize.]  I said in
my most cheerful and happy voice, "well, maybe if we folded it out of
larger paper, like wrapping paper, it would be almost life-sized!"  He
hrumfph'ed at this idea and just sat there, looking doleful at the
tiny "crayfish".  I felt I had not succeeded in giving him any joy...

So he walked me back to the department, holding the "crayfish" cupped
in his hand, like he didn't know what to do with it.

The next day, he called me up.  He sounded down as usual [I called him
"Marvin the paranoid android." :) I don't remember *ever* seeing him
happy... :( ] and asked if he could come over for a while.  I said
sure.  When he arrived, he had in his hand a roll of paper.  *Red*
paper!  He had found some red wrapping paper and wanted to make a
larger one!  I was so happy that I jumped up and hugged him!  :)

So we each made another one in the same bakery.  I donated mine to the
counter person [I can't keep my own origami], who later put it under a
cake glass on the counter, where it remained for many months until it
was loved quite into a rag. :) Ken took his home.

Except for a few times since then, I haven't seen Ken.  He had stopped
by once to show me an origami book he'd bought.  Since he was a
biology major, he'd gotten a book of animals.  He was slowly working
through the book.  I was glad to see him get into it. :)

I hope he's still folding. :)

Cyn





Date: Sat, 18 Dec 93 01:06:06 AST
From: stamm@aol.com
Subject: Re: Online Origami Issue 3

Bill Knittle:

> Forgive my ignorance...I'm new to the net and this conference.
>
> How/where does one obtain a copy of "Online Origami?"
> Thanks.

Welcome to the Listserv.

Online Origami is an E-zine published for fun and glory and no-$$$s.  It is
published in two forms: the Mac version is a stand alone program (Thanks to
Common Ground) and everybody else gets pages as separate GIF files ZIPped
together.  The Listserve archives also has Postscript versions.  Online
Origami can be obtained in the following manner:

1)  If you are on America Online, E-MAIL me (STAMM) with what kind of
    computer you have (Mac or Non-Mac) and I will E-MAIL issues to you.
    (AOL doesn't have an area to upload zines.)

2)  On
 CompuServe, go to: "Lifestyles" > "Hobbies" > "Crafts+" (This is
    w
here you leave basic services) > "Browse Libraries" > "Paper &
    Stamping[8]".  Look for files starting with "OOV1I1.ZIP" or
    "OOV1I1.SEA" ("OOV1I1" = "Online Origami Volume 1 Issue 1").  There is
    a delay between the time I upload it and when it appears cause they
    check everything.

3)  V'Ann Cornelius' Origami BBS also carries it in the files section.  BTW
    V'Ann maintain the
Origami Bibliography Database for FOCA.  V'Ann's
    Origami BBS [Open 8pm to 8am (Pacific Time) (619) 753-4419].

4)  The Listserve's archives has the first two issues (so far).  This is
    the only place where there are also Postscript versions of the "Online
    Origami".  I am currently working on the cheapest way to get those
    files uploaded, since I don't have direct & full Internet access.  You
    may get files by logging in to that server by FTP using the following
    commands:

        Start FTP:     FTP rugcis.rug.nl
        Login:         anonymous
        Password:      'your IP-address'
        Change dir:    cd origami

    For more help with the FTP site you might E-MAIL
   "M.J.van.Gelder@RC.RUG.NL".

5)  I have been known to snail mail hard copies to individuals. yuck!
    "Paper should be used for folding!"

Hope this helps!!!
Tom Stamm
stamm@aol.com





Date: Sat, 18 Dec 93 04:48:49 AST
From: TODD@nickel.laurentian.ca
Subject: Re: Online Origami Issue 3

# Online Origami is an E-zine published for fun and glory and no-$$$s.  It is
# published in two forms: the Mac version is a stand alone program (Thanks to
# Common Ground) and everybody else gets pages as separate GIF files ZIPped
# together.  The Listserve archives also has Postscript versions.  Online

Another newbie has arrived. I just rekindled my paper boat making (what
else can you do when you are programming dBASE) and the Boss Lady decided
she needed me to make some birds for her. Well now I'm hooked. I've gone
through most of the archived origami stuff and have a few questions.

The Online Origami is nice in Postscript but I can't seem to print it due to
a setscreen command. Is there a way to circumvent this? (I'm not fluent in
postscript either but it is convenient).

Is there a standard for diagramming origami? I've figured out what most of
things mean but I'm unsure of the arrowhead's meaning.

What are inside/outside reverse folds?

If I'm correct, dashed lines are valley folds and dashed lines with dots are
mountain folds? What are the lines with just dots?

One more. What is the waterbomb base? I attempted the angel (another request
of the Boss Lady) but I could never get the paper to correspond with the
third diagram...I think its the way I started.

Well if anyone can clue me in it would be appreciated...I'll have to pick up
a book on origami soon I suppose.

Todd...





Date: Sat, 18 Dec 93 10:13:40 AST
From: stamm@aol.com
Subject: Re: [todd's ?s] Online Origami Issue 3

Todd:

Sorry I don't know much about Postscript except to make a postscript file I
print to disk.

As for your other questions:  You might consider acquiring a book call
"Complete Origami" by Eric Kenneway.  It is an "encyclopedia" of all kinds
of origami STUFF, including diagramming, bases and techniques.

Hope this helps,
Tom Stamm





Date: Sun, 19 Dec 93 00:07:16 AST
From: CHAPBELL@delphi.com
Subject: My apologies

Dear All and Sundry,
    My apologies for the silly, misdirected subscription request.  This
morning while gophering around, I found an address for an origami listserv
in Texas.  I assumed it was a different list, but it seems to be some
forwarding address for the list in Nova Scotia.  Oh well.  Perhaps it was an
old address.
    Went down to the art supply store last week to get some of that
zero-thickness paper I was hearing so much about.  It was quite expensive,
so I just bought the surfaces and told them I'd buy the edges next week when
I get paid.  (I asked for _one_ surface, and they made me buy _two_; I'm
not sure that was a fair deal.)  Once I got it home, I tried the Chambered
Nautilus in _Sea Life_, but you know, logarithmic curves without thickness
have a way of going on and on....
    Like this letter.  Happy Christmas, you-all.
    <>Philip<>
    chapbell@delphi.com





Date: Thu, 23 Dec 93 15:55:51 AST
From: hull@cs.uri.edu (Tom Hull)
Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: the 2nd International Meeting of Origami Science

Hey! Tom Hull here. I recently received a flyer in the mail announcing
the following conference. I don't know too much about it except that
the 1st such conference was in 1989, and was apparently quite bitchin'.
I'm there (if I can manage to hitchike to Japan). Anyway, FYI here's
the announcement:

THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF ORIGAMI SCIENCE
+
ART AND SCIENCE IN ORIGAMI CONVENTION
---- November 1994
---- Seian University of Art and Design
---- Ohtsu, Shiga, Japan
----- * A satellite meeting of the International KATACHI u SYMMERTY
----- Symposium, Tsukuba, November, 1994

Host Organization: Seian University of Art and Design
Program Organization: Origami Science Forum
Participating Organizations (tentative):
    ARS+
    The Society of Science of Form
    The Society of Culture of Form
    Japan Origami Association
    International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry
    Local governments and cultural organizations
    Private firms

ABOUT THE MEETING/CONVENTION
In 1989, the First International Meeting of Origami Science and Technology
was held at the Casa di Ludovico Ariosto in Ferrara, Italy. The purpose
of the Meeting was to bring together the two different aspects of creation,
art and science in origami. The Meeting, thanks to strenous organizing
effort by Prof. Humiaki Hujita of University of Padova, proved to be
quite successful as well as enjoyable, and the resulting Procedings
became now the classic reference of the subject.

As Mr. Thoki Yenn, from Denmark, wrote in "def Falter", Zeitschrift
von Origami Deitschland, such a beautiful start must be followed by
repeating similar meetings. Under such circumference, it should be nice
to have the second meeting in Japan, which is the motherland of origami
and where several important contributions have been made about the
subject in recent years.

This meeting will be scheduled before or after the International KATACHI u
SYMMETRY Symposium, Tsukuba, 21-25, November 1994 (tentative date). The
scope of the Symposium is wide, but it is closely related to the subject
of our Meeting. Participants of the Meeting are welcomed to attend the
Symposium via enjoyable ride on Shinkansen (Super Express Train).

HOST ORGANIZATION
Seian University of Art and Design (SUAD) will host the Second International
Meeting of Origami Science and Art and Science in Origami Convention in
cooperation with participating organizations. SUAD is the new University
established this spring, and many of the faculty members have been
involved in the disciplines between art and science.

PROGRAM ORGANIZATION
Origami Science Forum is an informal international community, which is
consist of interested persons among participants of the first Meeting
at Ferrara and probable participants of the second Meeting.

TOPICS
Topics of the Meeting should be as wide and as imaginable as possible.
Convention is a kind of panel session, where presenters would talk
about their origami creations and might teach participants how to fold
them in relaxed circumferences. Two days each for the Meeting and
Convention is scheduled.

LOCATION
The host city, Ohtsu, is the historical city located at the west shore
of Lake Biwa, and 10 kilometers east of Kyoto. We will prepare the
staying as comfortable as economic as possible.

SCHEDULE (tentative)
Approval of the plan at the Board of Trustees of SUAD: September 1993
First Circular:                                        December 1993
Second Circular:                                       June 1994

CONTACT POINT
Prof. Koryo Miura, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo
Seian University of Art and Design
Ohgi, Ohtsu
Shiga, 520-02
JAPAN





Date: Fri, 24 Dec 93 13:45:43 AST
From: Katherine C Long <kcl@world.std.com>
Subject: NYT article on Origami Tree

The Dec 24, 93 issue of the New York Times has an article on pages C1 and
C28 by Karen Schoemer on New York's Christmas trees.  One of the trees
featured, including a nice photo, is the Japan Airlines Origami Holiday
Tree created and folded by Michael Shall.  There is a nice interview with
Mr. Shall and he talks about some of the over 5,000 origami ornaments on
the tree.  There is a King Kong with subway token, a Statue of Liberty, a
high-heeled shoe, and a clown that is Mr. Shall's self-fold-portrait.  It
sounds wonderful!

Katherine Long
kcl@world.std.com





Date: Sat, 25 Dec 93 11:35:05 AST
From: vwright@world.std.com (Vedder A Wright)
Subject: Kusudama wanted

There is a lovely Origami style called Kusudama, which refers to a
gorgeous series of roundish ornamental things of a complex nature.
Some of the more elaborate ones have 40 or more pieces of paper held
together with a thread in the inside. Other styles are composed of
interlocking folded pieces. It is usually made of
multiple sheets.

Since it is Christmas and I am crazy about anything round and
geometrical, I am looking for sources of Kusudama to buy. I would like
to learn more about it,
with book references if possible, but I would also
like to buy some nice examples made by an expert.

On a tip, I have been told that the Senior citizens Center in San
Francisco (the one in Japan Town)  is a good source for Kusudama, but
the details were sketchy. Can anyone supply a phone number, further
information, or contacts for this? Directory information was vague on
which was the correct number.

Any information will be sincerely appreciated on this
or any other sources of Kusudama, or information about
it.

Vedder Wright
vwright@world.std.com





Date: Sat, 25 Dec 93 14:47:47 AST
From: Katherine C Long <kcl@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Kusudama wanted

On Sat, 25 Dec 1993, Vedder A Wright wrote:

> Any information will be sincerely appreciated on this
> or any other sources of Kusudama, or information about
> it.

I'm slowly working my way through the KUSUDAMA from NOA Book (ISBN
4-931297-02-1) which is my current favorite kusudama book.  It has the
clearest instructions, I think, on how to string the classic 40-cone
versions. The titles are in English and the directions in Japanese.
Makoto Yamaguchi's Kusudama: Ball Origami (ISBN 0-87040-8763-1) is also
nice and in English.  Lifestyle Origami by Jay Ansill (ISBN 0-06-096867-2)
has some examples of modular folds.  I'm not sure where modular folds stop
and kusudamas start!

My Winter Solstice trees have kusudamas on them.  I used prisms and
bits of jewelry instead of tassels as drops.  The ones folded out of
two sheets of paper per cone (1 sheet white/color and 1 sheet with
different colors on each side) look very nice - and were within my
beginning folding skills!  Right now I'm struggling to make a two
sheet foil cones out of 2" squares.  I need smaller fingers!

Katherine Long
kcl@world.std.com





Date: Mon, 3 Jan 94 09:52:26 AST
From: "M.J.van.Gelder" <M.J.van.Gelder@rc.rug.nl>
Subject: Dragon model added to archives

>From Klaus Weidner I got a PostScript file with a dragon in it. It is in the
archives now (directory models).

When I printed the diagrams they appeared to fill up to the edges of the A4
paper. So I have edited the PostScript file to rescale the diagram some
smaller. I hope they fit on the paper the USA folks use. If not let me know
(and also what size your paper is).

Maarten van Gelder                   M.J.van.Gelder@RC.RUG.NL
Lichtboei 210                        Rekencentrum Rijksuniversiteit RuG
9732 JK  Groningen                   Groningen
Holland                              Holland





Date: Tue, 4 Jan 94 13:15:37 AST
From: lavin@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: she's batty about bats -- help

Well, sorry this is so belated, but I've been saving bits of various
conversations on the list, meaning to reply...January is a quiet(er)
time here, so I'm trying to catch up some...

Anyway, about bats:

Michael LaFosse's bat (the amazingly lifelike one that some of you
have seen at the conventions, and I believe in the FOCA newsletter)
is, unfortunately, not diagrammed anywhere.  Michael folded it, on and
off, over several months, a technique possible with wet-folded
methyl-cellulose impregnated models.  (You let it dry, and then just
come back to it whenver you want, spray on some water and keep
folding!)  I visited him a few weeks ago and confirmed all this.

But I did find a pretty nice bat fold in one of Yoshizawa's books.
The book is out of print, but I've borrowed a copy of it from Michael.
If anyone wants a copy of the bat directions, just send me a SASE and
I'll send it to you.  (Or, if you've got something interesting to
trade, send me email about it and we can ignore the SASE.)  In typical
Yoshizawa fashion, the directions are for a simple version of the bat,
but from the sketches and the photos you can easily see how to make a
much more detailed version (wet folded is best.)

My paper mail address is:

        Anne LaVin
        58 Dexter St.
        Malden, MA  02148

Anne R. LaVin                    | "Say, Pooh, why aren't YOU busy?" I said.
lavin@mit.edu                    | "Because it's a nice day," said Pooh.
MIT Information Systems          | "Yes, but---"
(617) 253-0115                   | "Why ruin it?" he said.





Date: Tue, 4 Jan 94 17:24:23 AST
From: kweidner@physik.tu-muenchen.de (Klaus Weidner)
Subject: Re: Dragon model added to archives

Marc Kossa <M.Kossa@frec.bull.fr> wrote:
> Can't find this dragon in the archive.
> (I'm looking on ftp.uu.net in /doc/origami)
> Where is it ?

Try rugcis.rug.nl, directory origami/models.
I didn't know they had origami stuff on ftp.uu.net - I'll have to
take a look at it.

Please let me know if you try folding the dragon - this was my first
attempt at making a diagram, and I don't know if the instructions
are right this way.

ciao, Klaus

\ klaus@snarc.greenie.muc.de--kweidner@physik.tu-muenchen.de--2:246/55.4
\ .signature error -- quote dumped





Date: Tue, 4 Jan 94 17:51:22 AST
From: Joseph Wu <jwu@cs.ubc.ca>
Subject: Re: Dragon model added to archives

On Tue, 4 Jan 1994, Klaus Weidner wrote:

> Please let me know if you try folding the dragon - this was my first
> attempt at making a diagram, and I don't know if the instructions
> are right this way.

The diagrams were fine. A nice, dragon, I might add. Good use of the
blintzed bird base.





Date: Tue, 4 Jan 94 21:31:52 AST
From: gdscott@aol.com
Subject: inquiry about newsletters; fabric origami

I am interested in the names of current newsletters or publications dealing
with origami, and how to receive them.

Also, Michael LaFosse's bat sounds very interesting.  What is the commercial
name for methyl-cellulose?

I do fabric origami using a variety of textiles instead of paper.  Currently
I am working on boxes but have also done animals.  To date, I have not met
anyone working similarly.

My boxes feature enhancements such as tiny beads, rice paper laminations,
very old kimono silks, and other surface treatments.

The origami tends to be slightly larger, given the weight of the material.  A
fine silk will work as tightly as paper, while a broadcloth tends to yield a
little larger figure or constructed units.

I hope to find a reference for books, periodicals, and any source that
produces patterns. Tell me about your favorite references.

Glenda Scott
gdscott@aol.com





Date: Wed, 5 Jan 94 11:27:32 AST
From: lau@desci.wharton.upenn.edu (Yan K. Lau)
Subject: Lifestyle Origami, anyone?

Just a quick note.  A store is my area is selling off Jay Ansill's book,
"Lifestyle Origami" for US$1.98.  It's a very pretty color book with
models by various folders.  I think it is a good introductory book with
mostly simple models and a few difficult ones, a nice variety.

The models are Napkin Cuffs, Classic Napkin Folds, Pajarita, Ingenious
Letter-Fold, Star, Crane, Fancy Dish, Picture Frame, Renaissance Shopping
Bag, Perching Birds, Tropical Flowers, Chalice, Heart Gift Box, Bowl,
Three-D Greeting Cards and Modular Folds.

I think the Friends were also selling their remaining stock of the book
but not at this good a price.  The book lists for $10.00 which is what I
brought my original copy for.  The only sad thing is I wonder if the book
is going "out of print."

Anyone interested in me picking up a copy for them?

Yan.

          "I think we're both gonna make it *big*. I am very optimistic."
   )~  Yan K. Lau          lau@desci.wharton.upenn.edu          130.91.161.6
 ~/~   OPIM Department     The Wharton School     University of Pennsylvania
 /\    God/Goddess/All that is -- the source of love, light and inspiration!





Date: Thu, 6 Jan 94 13:47:03 AST
From: Sjaak <jadr@oce.nl>
Subject: Re: NYT article on Origami Tree

  >
  >The Dec 24, 93 issue of the New York Times has an article on pages C1 and
  >C28 by Karen Schoemer on New York's Christmas trees.  One of the trees
  >featured, including a nice photo, is the Japan Airlines Origami Holiday
  >Tree created and folded by Michael Shall.  There is a nice interview with
  >Mr. Shall and he talks about some of the over 5,000 origami ornaments on
  >the tree.  There is a King Kong with subway token, a Statue of Liberty, a
  >high-heeled shoe, and a clown that is Mr. Shall's self-fold-portrait.  It
  >sounds wonderful!
  >
  >Katherine Long
  >kcl@world.std.com

This Christmas, Michael Shall had a great part in the making of the largest
origami Xmas tree ever, in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. It was 14 metres
tall and bore 8121 origami ornaments.

The tree stood under the dome of an Eindhoven shopping mall.  A seven year
old Japanese girl finally placed a crane in the tree, helped bij Dutch
mountaineers. They used ropes hanging from the top of the dome.

Hundreds of people from all over the world had sent in ornaments, most of
them 'the size of a grapefruit' (as specified by the organising committee).
Never before had so many people taken part in an origami project, according
to Marieke de Hoop, who had organised the project together with Jeroen
Hilhorst and Michael Shall. Michael himself untiringly gave origami clinics
(with much showmanship) under the tree, all through the five days of the
project.

Greetings,
Sjaak





Date: Tue, 11 Jan 94 12:32:48 AST
From: anselmo@thermsa.eng.sunysb.edu (Andrew P. Anselmo)
Subject: origami $-bill basket

Hi all-

Yet another $-bill diagram!  This time, a $-bill basket, that can hold quarters,
etc.  I usually use it for tips in a bar or restaurant.   I've asked Maarten
to put in on the archives.  Take a look.  Comments welcomed.

A.





Date: Wed, 12 Jan 94 16:34:00 AST
From: "M.J.van.Gelder" <M.J.van.Gelder@rc.rug.nl>
Subject: Re: origami $-bill basket

m>Yet another $-bill diagram!  This time, a $-bill basket, that can hold quarters,
m>etc.  I usually use it for tips in a bar or restaurant.   I've asked Maarten
m>to put in on the archives.  Take a look.  Comments welcomed.

It's there ..... Looks nice.

Maarten van Gelder                   M.J.van.Gelder@RC.RUG.NL
Lichtboei 210                        Rekencentrum Rijksuniversiteit RuG
9732 JK  Groningen                   Groningen
Holland                              Holland





Date: Fri, 14 Jan 94 15:46:46 AST
From: "B.Ewins" <gapv64@udcf.gla.ac.uk>
Subject: Kawasaki shell

Hello again,
        In the book 'origami for the connoisser'
there's a sea shell model described (the four-hole
sea snail one). Beside this is a photo of a much
nicer variation, with only one hole at the base
of the shell. Does anyone out there know how this
is done ?
        Cheers,
               Baz.





Date: Fri, 14 Jan 94 18:15:08 AST
From: makaala647@aol.com
Subject: Hi I'm new

Hello all,
I'm new to the list and new to the net, If I generated any unwanted mail
during my bumbling attempts to subscribe to origami-l, I apologize.
My Name is Matthew Sparks, I am a Sr. Programmer Analyst at Pinkerton's
Security & Investigation (The guys who chased Butch and Sundance all over the
west.) I am 34, married and have a two year old daughter.
I got into origami very young, My older sister showed me how to fold a box
that ended up flat and then you blew in one end to inflate it to a box. I was
6 and have since forgotton how to do it. If any one knows this fold please
teach me it. in Elementary school, I folded hats, cups, snappers, frogs,
boats, and airplanes, then started folding 1000 cranes, somewhere around 200
I gave up and didn't fold for quite some time. (read 20 years)

I got into magic awhile back and joined the international brotherhood of
magicians (we were IBM long before big blue.) 3 or four years ago, the cover
of their magazine (The Linking Ring) featured an origami elves boot  made of
a dollar bill. I was hooked again. I went to a japanese restaraunt for lunch
that day and left a two boot tip. When I went back, they were in a little
glass case on the register.
Since then I've folded alot but mostly money.
My one original creation, a Viking helmet out of a dollar bill

I read the archive through # 14 but then I cheated and jumped to 25 so
please forgive me if I repeat something said by someone else.

Favorite new book, The buck book
favorite paper - made by Uncle sam
favorite folds - valley, peak
is it art or craft - its art if I made you think. its craft if I made two.
can you use scissors or glue - since about first grade ( but I'm still
   messy with paste)

My Rules for origami
 Rule #1. Only Square paper
 Rule #2. No Cutting
 Rule #3. No taping or gluing
 Rule #4. No Cheating
 Rule #5. There are exceptions to every rule.

I'll write more later,
Matthew
Makaala647@aol.com





Date: Fri, 14 Jan 94 18:37:45 AST
From: MLM7395@RIGEL.TAMU.EDU
Subject: RE: Hi I'm new

I know how to fold the model you were talking about-I think it's called
a water bomb and I think I've seen it in a book, but I can't remember
which one.  Maybe someone else will remember where to find it.  If no one
posts the book, I'll try and write some clear instructions how to do it.  I've
been making those little balloons since I was a kid, but I doubt my ability
to write clear directions!!!!!!

Monica





Date: Sat, 15 Jan 94 22:13:43 AST
From: SKRIPJ@sask.usask.ca
Subject: Re: Hi I'm new

Hi, Matthew!

Welcome to the list.  I'm relatively new, having joined about two months ago or so.
I also got into origami at a very young age . . . ten or eleven.  About the
same time, I also got into magic . . . became a sort of "honorary member" or
"associate member" or something like that of the IBM.  Card work is my
specialty.  I wonder . . . thinking back on classic magic texts I've read, I
recall a lot of examples of folding . . . money work and other things, as if
folding was the presursor to balloon animals (ahr ahr ahr . . .).  Anyone else
out there have who lived or is living with the magic/origami connection?

Perhaps that's why "It's Magic" is one of my favorite folds.

Jack Skrip





Date: Sat, 15 Jan 94 22:36:47 AST
From: SKRIPJ@sask.usask.ca
Subject: Re: Hi I'm new

just another happy coincidence, I suppose, that "It's Magic" is folded from
a 1 x 2 rectangle . . . half of which ends up as a water bomb!

Jack





Date: Sat, 15 Jan 94 22:53:54 AST
From: Sheldon Ackerman <ackerman@dorsai.dorsai.org>
Subject: Re: Hi I'm new

> out there have who lived or is living with the magic/origami connection?
Amazing! Perhaps there is some connection between Origami and magic. I've been
into both for quite a while as well.





Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 01:38:59 -0400 (AST)
From: r.follmer@genie.geis.com
Subject: Magic, Origami, and She?

Gee.... more magicians than I had realized here. For those of you that are
interested, there is an internet magic mail list.  Email me and I will send
details by return post.  Also, for you balloon orkers thare is one of them
also.  Same procedure also for request via email.

Have a fun day! ( from 17 belw last night!

Bob





Date: Wed, 19 Jan 94 12:02:11 AST
From: tjj@rolf.helsinki.fi (Timo Jokitalo)
Subject: Message from a novice

Hello everyone!

Finally I have a wee bit of time to write a first mail to this list -
a few weeks after having found it. I sifted a bit through the archives,
and couldn't find an answer to my (probably) FAQ...

I folded models quite a bit a couple of years ago, going through all
of the books I found in the library I normally frequent. However, the
books are few and they all contain the same rather elementary models.
I got quite bored. Now, if my funds allow me, I would like to buy a
book of origami, and I thought that my fellow netters could probably
offer me recommendations. My problem is that I probably have to order the
book without seeing it, because the bookstores here don't have a lot
of origami either.

        Thanks,
        Timo
