




Date: Tue, 12 Apr 94 12:44:32 ADT
From: makaala647@aol.com
Subject: another rule? (puritanism)

I remember reading about the rule about only using your hands, no tools, to
press the folds, but I also seem to remember you can't put it down while
you're folding it. so you can't press a fold against the table top with your
finger to make  a sharp crease.

I love reading about rules, that keep origami pure. That way I know when I am
ignoring all these rules and having a good time, the guilt keeps me from
going overboard. Oh I just came up with a new design, it is an origami police
badge, unfortunately I folded it out of tinfoil not
paper, I cut the tinfoil, it wasn't square to start with, I had to glue the
decorations on and then  i taped a pin to it to hang it from.

I think if you are not the  person who originally invented origami, Then your
opinions about origami rules, are just opinions. I love to hear them. but
I'll fold my way thanks.





Date: Tue, 12 Apr 94 12:55:40 ADT
From: jfryer@lib.ursinus.edu
Subject: Re: Origami paper

Another good source of patterned paper is the paper bags used by some gift and
photo shops.  Unfortunately, many places now use plastic.
                    Judith Fryer    jfryer@lib.ursinus.edu





Date: Tue, 12 Apr 94 14:19:44 ADT
From: AHELM@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu
Subject: character folds

Okay, I've seen lots of books and read lots of messages on this list, but now I
have a question.

Does anyone out there have any character folds?  I mean modern character folds,
for example Warner Brothers characters, the Peanuts, Calvin & Hobbes, or Disney
folds?

I have one book from Japan that has a lot of folds illustrating Japanese
fairytale characters.  And in the Japanese origami group's monthly I have seen
several modern cartoon characters folded.  I have not yet seen U.S. pop culture
folds, though.  And as for fairy tales, I think that I have only seen little
red riding hood.

If any of you have some of these folds I would love to get a hold of some of
the instructions.  I don't consider myself artistic enough yet to attempt them
on my own  (ok, maybe I'm lazy, or just too busy, but, oh well).

Anyway, thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Anthony Helm
ahelm@utxsvs.cc.utexas.edu





Date: Tue, 12 Apr 94 17:18:34 ADT
From: samreye@aol.com
Subject: Re: character folds

Anthony Helm mentioned he was interested in modern character folds.  I have
invented two: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle & Energizer Rabbit.  I have not
diagrammed these as I am still trying to practice with Maarten's program,
"oridraw".

Jim Weir
samreye@aol.com





Date: Tue, 12 Apr 94 17:52:27 ADT
From: arien kismet del'tai <arien@blegga.omnigroup.com>
Subject: Re: character folds

I've seen in folded form "The Wizard of Speed and Time" (I
think that's what he's called).  I hear instructions are
/somewhere/ on the net; anyone have an idea as to where?

                              Ari.





Date: Wed, 13 Apr 94 14:15:26 ADT
From: base00!jhc@codas.attmail.com
Subject: Re: another rule? (puritanism)

Makaala647@aol.com wrote:
>Oh I just came up with a new design, it is an origami police
>badge, unfortunately I folded it out of tinfoil not
>paper, I cut the tinfoil, it wasn't square to start with, I had to glue the
>decorations on and then  i taped a pin to it to hang it from.

ROTFL!!!!  That was a true gem.  I suggest that if we want to meet up at the
convention, we could *all* wear the "official" origami police badge!
When anyone asks about it, we can have that statement written on the back.
(That way, the badge is also drawn on with a marker!)

-- Javier

 + jhc@codas.attmail.com            +  AT&T                               +
 + Javier Cubero                    +  Orlando, Florida                   +





Date: Wed, 13 Apr 94 16:24:25 ADT
From: Soylent Green <rhudson@yorkcol.edu>
Subject: Rights (puritanism)

We can search the other conventioneers for scissors, and read them their
rights.

"All right, buddy, put your fingers where I can see them.  Spread em!
You have the right to a clean square of paper,
anything you make can and must be folded without glue in a court of Fold.
You have the right to a bone folder,
If you cannot afford this accessory, one may be provided for you to sharpen
your creases."

With any luck, the bone folder should act as a thereapeutic tool to improve
folds so that in the future, the temptation to cut a poorly creased model will
decrease with sharper crease!

Sgt. Rob





Date: Wed, 13 Apr 94 18:41:50 ADT
From: "Kevin J. Barth" <barth@wam.umd.edu>
Subject: Re: Rights (puritanism)

On Wed, 13 Apr 1994, Soylent Green wrote:

> With any luck, the bone folder should act as a thereapeutic tool to improve
> folds so that in the future, the temptation to cut a poorly creased model will
> decrease with sharper crease!

Or, alternatively, the temptation to de-crease a poorly creased model
will be cut...

Kevin Barth
barth@wam.umd.edu





Date: Wed, 13 Apr 94 23:02:56 ADT
From: Daniel Say <say@sfu.ca>
Subject: Re: folding purity (puritanism)

" On Wed, 13 Apr 1994, Soylent Green wrote:

" > With any luck, the bone folder should act as a thereapeutic tool to improve
" > folds so that in the future, the temptation to cut a poorly creased model
     will
" > decrease with sharper crease!

        In the interests of Origami Purity, Yoshizawa teaches
to fold in the air.  I was scolded in Tokyo when I did a crease on
the desk.
        When you think about it, it makes sense.  The ends of the
creases are held and the fold is sharpened "naturally".





Date: Thu, 14 Apr 94 00:49:09 ADT
From: MJNAUGHTON@amherst.edu
Subject: Yoshizawa/quotes

I've heard of this Yoshizawa (or is it "Japanese") "folding in the air"
before -- call me a rebel, but I love flat surfaces & folding bones (maybe
it's because I'm into modulars!)  On the other hand, I heard Robert Neale once
     say that his favorite position is to lie on a bed and fold flat on his
     back(!)
Try putting together a "butterfly bomb" that way!

Here's a dumb e-mail question: how do you manage to incorporate quotes from
previous messages into your e-mail?  Thanks for any tips. . . .

Mike "I'll get the hang of these things someday" Naughton





Date: Thu, 14 Apr 94 04:12:06 ADT
From: "M.J.van.Gelder" <M.J.van.Gelder@rc.rug.nl>
Subject: Re: folding purity (puritanism)

Daniel Say wrote:

m>    In the interests of Origami Purity, Yoshizawa teaches
m>to fold in the air.  I was scolded in Tokyo when I did a crease on
m>the desk.
m>    When you think about it, it makes sense.  The ends of the
m>creases are held and the fold is sharpened "naturally".

The Japanese all learn folding in the air. It is not tipically for Yoshizawa.
And moreover: On a convention in Toulouse Yoshizawa gave a class and folded
on the table!
So how you fold (tabel or air)? Just do it as you like...

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





Date: Thu, 14 Apr 94 08:25:59 ADT
From: Agnes Tomorrow <atom@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Butterfly bomb

On Thu, 14 Apr 1994 MJNAUGHTON@amherst.edu wrote:

> Try putting together a "butterfly bomb" that way!

        I've seen mention of this before, and been intrigued/curious--
what's a butterfly bomb?  How is it made?

Agnes Tomorrow
atom@u.washington.edu





Date: Thu, 14 Apr 94 09:52:18 ADT
From: LHODSDON@smith.smith.edu
Subject: Re: Butterfly bomb

What's a butterfly bomb?

FYI: In Ann Arbor, Bill Dollar has started a campaign to rename this
model the "Butterfly Ball" -- a P.C. move that I can't decide if I
approve of.  A "bomb" of butterflies is pretty P.C., I think.

BTW, Can it be called origami if the point of it is to explode
on impact?

It's _very_ simple to fold (a whole bunch of water-bomb bases) and
pretty much indescribable as to how to put them together to form
a rhombic dodecahedron.  (I forget, I think there are 12 pieces.)

-Lisa Hodsdon
lhodsdon@smith.smith.edu

PS Oh yeah, it explodes on impact into a whole flock of butterflies.
(And you can hear them trapped inside the model when it is put
together.)  Whose model is this?  I've been told, but...





Date: Thu, 14 Apr 94 10:28:07 ADT
From: Soylent Green <rhudson@yorkcol.edu>
Subject: butterfly bomb

That's another mystery to me.. how is the butterfly bomb assembled?  Someone,
anyone?

Rob





Date: Thu, 14 Apr 94 11:30:15 ADT
From: Mark Morden <marmonk@eskimo.com>
Subject: Re: butterfly bomb

On Thu, 14 Apr 1994, Soylent Green wrote:

> That's another mystery to me.. how is the butterfly bomb assembled?  Someone,
> anyone?
>
> Rob

To describe how it is assebled is beyond my literary skills.  Sorry.
However, the model is described in Gay Merrill Gross' book, "The Art of
Origami."  (ISBN 0-7924-5841-9 BDD Illustrated Books)  She calls it a
Butterfly Ball.  It is an cuboctahedron, which is a cross between a cube
and an octahedron.  There are 6 square faces and 8 triangular faces.  The
triangular faces are actually recessed.  Got the picture? Good ;-).

The fold is a waterbomb base and made of 12 pieces of paper.  She gives
the model 4 stars (Challenging) due to the weaving together of the
units.  The idea is to fold and assemble all the units together.  The
ball is then tossed in the air and as it decends it is smacked.  The
units fly apart in a shower of "butterflies."  Having written all this,
that is all I know about the model, since I haven't made it before.  I
guess I better so I know of which I speak. S-)

She credits the model to Kenneth Lawamura of East Lansing, Michigan.

Mark Morden
marmonk@eskimo.com





Date: Thu, 14 Apr 94 12:11:19 ADT
From: Charlotte <CSTEFFAN@CMS.CC.WAYNE.EDU>
Subject: Re: butterfly bomb

Bill made the Butterfly Ball for us at the last meeting. It's 12 pieces and
he can assemble it in about 30 seconds but I haven't learned how yet. I am
going to have him show me how to do it next meeting and if no one else has
explained it by then, I'll try to, or maybe I'll let Bill try.





Date: Thu, 14 Apr 94 14:23:42 ADT
From: Joseph Wu <jwu@cs.ubc.ca>
Subject: RE: Origami, Plain and Simple

On Mon, 4 Apr 1994, Tom Hull wrote:

> RE: Origami Plain and Simple
>       The models in the book are (hold on - I'm doing this from memory)
> Simple Folds: Frog with a Big Mouth, Owl and Owlet, Holy Shield, Abstract
> Elephant, Scotty Dog, Simple Wallet
>
> Action Folds: Talking Bird, Funky Swan, Cobra (it strikes!), "Kiss Me"
> Greeting Card, Raven Mask, Throwing Dart
>
> Modular Folds: Pinwheel-Ring-Pinwheel (the same one as in _The Magic of
> Origami_), Ornamental Thingie, Sunburst, Stabile, Squared Square & Cube,
> Three Wise Men, Sea Serpent, Chess Set
>
> Frog Pond: Frog Head with a Big Mouth, Frog with a Big Mouth in Flight,
> Frog with a Big Mouth, Tounge, and Eyes.
>
> Getting Tricky: Elephant I, Angel Fish, His Lady's Voice (a dog), Bald Eagle,
> Rabbit, Tesselating Fish, Elephant II
>
> Oh yeah! I forgot to mention the SImple Fish in the Simple Folds chapter!
> That's it (unless I forgot any).
>
> All models are new and never-before published (except the Pinwheel-ring, and
> the Scotty Dog appeared in a Friends Annual Collection a while back).
>
> The book should be in any bookstore that normally carries origami books.
> If you don't see it, ask your bookstore to order you a copy.

I received the review copy from the publisher yesterday. It looks good! 8)
I'll hammer out a proper review of it over the weekend and post it on
Monday. The little note that came with the book (written on a folded owl)
stated that the official publication date was April 22.





Date: Thu, 14 Apr 94 16:29:49 ADT
From: GURKEWITZ@WCSUB.CTSTATEU.EDU
Subject: Re: Butterfly bomb

The butterfly bomb is made from 12 interlocking waterbomb bases.

The shape that is formed is a cuboctohedron, 6square faces and
8 triangular faces. If you can imagine a cube with a diamond
on each face and the corners cut off down to the diamond, that
is a cuboctohedron.

Bill Dollar is a collector of cuboctohedrons. I met him at the
foca convention because I've taught three cuboctohedron based models.
I'm going to teach the Spike Ball this time. There's a three loop
cuboctohedron of mine in the 92 foca annual collection. The Spike
Ball has been published in a couple of places.

Just got the convention packet today. Heard that they were mailed
out last Saturday, so if you don't get one soon you probably should
call or write foca.

Rona





Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 18:18:58 -0300 (ADT)
From: Mark Morden <marmonk@eskimo.COM>
Subject: Re: butterfly bomb

 On Thu, 14 Apr 1994, Mark Morden wrote:

 >
 > She credits the model to Kenneth Lawamura of East Lansing, Michigan.
 >
 > Mark Morden
 > marmonk@eskimo.com
 >
 Actually she credits the model to Kenneth _K_awamura.  My keyboard must
 think otherwide.  Sorry.

 MM





Date: Thu, 14 Apr 94 18:51:26 ADT
From: LONNIER@nickel.mincom.oz.au
Subject: ORIGAMI PURE & SIMPLE

If it isn't then I'll try and import a copy...





Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 23:55:26 -0300 (ADT)
From: "T.K. Lam" <mud05@cc.keele.AC.UK>
Subject: Air folding (puritanism)

> The Japanese all learn folding in the air. It is not tipically for Yoshizawa.
> And moreover: On a convention in Toulouse Yoshizawa gave a class and folded
> on the table!
> So how you fold (tabel or air)? Just do it as you like...

   Whether you fold on a surface or without one depends on the size of the
model, I think.  Small 5" squares naturally fall into being folded in the
hand, although modules/units benefit from the accuracy and convenience of a
surface.

   Larger complex models benefit from a table, or a hard book or whatever,
if you have a surface handy.

   Air folding - surely thats called aerogami ! )





Date: Fri, 15 Apr 94 06:55:34 ADT
From: GALLO@DIPMAT.UNICT.IT.
Subject: RE: Rights (puritanism)

Does anyone know how to fold the model for a pair of scissors?
 Giovanni





Date: Fri, 15 Apr 94 10:45:49 ADT
From: jkriens@cc.bellcore.com (kriens,john)
Subject: Re: Butterfly bomb.

This sounds like something that I've been making for years, but never knew
that it had a name.  Are each of the 12 parts the same?  In mine, each side
is square split diagonally and the side is sorta concave.  It never occurred to
me (and still doesn't) that the pieces look like butterflies.

end---->  ______________
          \     |`    /|\
           \    | `  / | \
            \   |  `/  |  \       Unit (make 12)
             \  |  /`  |   \
              \ | /  ` |    \
               \|/____`|_____\  <-----end

Solid lines are folds, and the light line is paper folded over.  The vertical
fold is a mountain fold, the diagonal is a valley fold.  It is make from a
square piece of paper.  To assemble,
you tuck one of the ends of one piece under the folded over part of another
piece, so that each piece has two other pieces connected into it while itself
is also connected to two other pieces.  All 12 pieces fit together with all
ends being connected and none left over.

Anyway, is this the butterfly bomb?

-John Kriens
jkriens@cc.bellcore.com





Date: Fri, 15 Apr 94 11:36:45 ADT
From: "Micheal R. Tramont" <mtramont@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Subject: Re: butterfly bomb

>To describe how it is assebled is beyond my literary skills.  Sorry.
>However, the model is described in Gay Merrill Gross' book, "The Art of
>Origami."  (ISBN 0-7924-5841-9 BDD Illustrated Books)  She calls it a
>Butterfly Ball.  It is an cuboctahedron, which is a cross between a cube
>and an octahedron.  There are 6 square faces and 8 triangular faces.  The
>triangular faces are actually recessed.  Got the picture? Good ;-).

>Mark Morden
>marmonk@eskimo.com

What year was this book published?  I'm having a hard time tracking it
down.  I know that Samuel Randlett has a book by the same title.

Can this model be found in another book?

TIA,

Micheal





Date: Fri, 15 Apr 94 11:43:51 ADT
From: "M.J.van.Gelder" <M.J.van.Gelder@rc.rug.nl>
Subject: Re: Butterfly bomb.

John Kriens,

m>This sounds like something that I've been making for years, but never knew
m>that it had a name.  Are each of the 12 parts the same?  In mine, each side
m>is square split diagonally and the side is sorta concave.  It never occurred
     to
m>me (and still doesn't) that the pieces look like butterflies.
m>
m>end---->  ______________
m>          \     |`    /|\
m>           \    | `  / | \
m>            \   |  `/  |  \       Unit (make 12)
m>             \  |  /`  |   \
m>              \ | /  ` |    \
m>               \|/____`|_____\  <-----end

This is NOT the butterfly bomb unit. The butterfly unit is a simple waterbomb
base.

The unit you describe is one of a variety. One of them is called the Fuse
unit (designed by Tomoko Fuse). They all may be used to make the several
polyhedrons (cube, octagon, etcetera). The different polyhedrons and
derivatives are described in _The_Connoisseur_. The largest structure counts
900 units. My son and I folded each 450 units and put it together some years
ago. It is a lot of work but nice to look at if you make the units of
different colors.

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





Date: Sat, 16 Apr 94 14:45:31 ADT
From: Brian Ewins <gapv64@udcf.gla.ac.uk>
Subject: RFD:rec.crafts.paper.misc (newsgroup)

They finally got back to me, so here it is: the first step to
becoming a newsgroup.

Proposed by:    Brian Ewins <gapv64@udcf.gla.ac.uk>

Group name:     rec.crafts.paper.misc
Distribution:   world-wide
Summary:        A newsgroup for the discussion of various paper
               related crafts.

JUSTIFICATION:

Currently, there exists a mailing list on the net (origami-l@nstn.ns.ca)
for the discussion of origami. There is also an ftp archive of models,
and several discussion groups on various BBS's on this and other
related topics.
        The origami list, currently the main area of discussion, has
grown rapidly, generating a high volume of mail, and has begun to
fragment, with unrelated discussions taking place simultaneously,
a clear indication that the list has grown beyond its remit, and that
a constituency exists for the proposed group.
        This RFD is intended to make users aware that there will
shortly be a vote, but also is intended to allow discussion of the
name of the group, and its charter: originally this was proposed as
rec.crafts.origami, but a move to the current proposal allows
related topics to be included as a hierarchy if the volume of
discussion warrants it; eg for the topics in the charter, any of
rec.crafts.paper.folding,r.c.p.cutting,r.c.p.sculpture, could be
created, at some point in the future.

CHARTER:

The proposed group will provide a forum for the discussion of all
arts and crafts involving paper, both the methods and materials.
These include, but are not limited to:

*origami        (paper folding)
*kirigami       (paper cutting)
*paper making
*paper sculpture
*papier mache
*related computer software.

This message is being distributed to the following places:
USENET groups:
        news.announce.newgroups
        rec.crafts.misc
        rec.arts.misc
        soc.culture.japanese
And the mailing list:
        origami-l@nstn.ns.ca
Followups should be sent to news.groups (this should happen automatically)
or, if you are subscribed, to the list.

**********************************************************************

NOTE

This RFD is being issued in concordance with the guidelines set in the
"How to create a new usenet newsgroup" FAQ regularly posted to
news.announce.newgroups.  Please refer to this article if you have any
questions about the newsgroup creation.

Unless the discussion indicates a need to resubmit a new RFD, the CFV
will be posted approximately three to four weeks after the posting of
this RFD. It will be co-ordinated by a Usenet Volunteer Votetaker
(a neutral third party).

*********************************************************************

Brian Ewins,
Dept of Physics & Astronomy,
University of Glasgow,
Glasgow G12 8QQ





Date: Sat, 16 Apr 94 14:53:09 ADT
From: Alfredo Cruz <cruz@ollac.ollusa.edu>
Subject: Reccommended Reading (book)

I really don't want to stop the "Purity Wars" but, I've got a quick
        question for everyone. Looking to expand our Origami collection
        of books, can I get some suggestions on "must have" origami
        books, books that one MUST HAVE in their Origami collection.

Also, in the same line, Does anyone know of such as book for, and about,
        Origami, that it can be considered "The Bible of Origami?"

Thanks in advance. . .





Date: Sun, 17 Apr 94 03:01:13 ADT
From: Mark Morden <marmonk@eskimo.com>
Subject: Re: butterfly bomb

The GMG book is copyright 1993 by Michael Friedman Publishing Group,
Inc.  It is a hard cover book  with color photos to go along with the
diagrams.

Mark Morden
marmonk@eskimo.com





Date: Sun, 17 Apr 94 15:43:52 ADT
From: Jimmy Ning <jhbning@barrow.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: suggestion for wedding presents

Hello, everyone!  (Hi, Joseph! *wave*)

This is my first posting to this mailing list.  I have only been
folding off and on for the past 1+ year.  I think I am at the
intermediate level.

My friends are getting marry and I would like to make something
for them as part of the wedding present.  I would really appreciate
it if you could give me some suggestions.  Thanks

- Jimmy

PS.  The models should not require more than 5 hours to fold.  I
     am swamped with work right now.





Date: Sun, 17 Apr 94 19:57:33 ADT
From: stamm@aol.com
Subject: Re: Reccommended Reading (book)

Must have...

"The Complete Origami" by Eric Kenneway

It is a encyclopedia of folding knowledge.   I, myself, have a rare first
edition gutenburg copy. :^





Date: Mon, 18 Apr 94 00:29:21 ADT
From: sea@umcc.umich.edu (Steve Arlow)
Subject: Re: suggestion for wedding presents

> This is my first posting to this mailing list.  I have only been
> folding off and on for the past 1+ year.  I think I am at the
> intermediate level.

Well, this is my first posting here as well.

I've been folding for a long time, and have been on this list for
nearly a month now, but the volume of traffic is so high that I've
just been archiving most of it unread.  A newsgroup would be far
preferrable.  If the list-server software would at least preserve the
"In-Reply-To: " headers, I could write a program to separate the
threads and put them in order...  As it is, I find this list to be of
little use.  :(  This one caught my eye, though:

> My friends are getting marry and I would like to make something
> for them as part of the wedding present.  I would really appreciate
> it if you could give me some suggestions.  Thanks

I have, on such occasions, given a pair of cranes folded from white
onion skin, joined wigtip to wingtip.  (Start with paper 2:1, and cut
almost all the way in half.  Fold each square into a crane, keeping
the join on the wings...) The symbolism, of course, being that they
are folded from a single piece of paper -- enclose a note to that
effect.  These have been *very* well received, the reaction really
surprised me.

In one case, the wedding had a swan motif, so I made two linked swans
instead (my own design, based mostly on the "Gliding Swan" in _Wings
and Things_ (Weiss)).

There is also a pair of crossed wedding bells, folded from a single
stretched bird base, in Harbin's _New Adventures in Origami_.

oh deride not / the camel / if grief should / make him die /|   Steve Arlow
his ghost will come / to haunt you / with tears / in either | Yorick Software
eye / and the spirit of / a camel / in the midnight gloom / |sea@umcc.umich.edu
can be so very / cheerless / as it wanders / round the room | (810) 473-0920





Date: Mon, 18 Apr 94 05:14:17 ADT
From: ABADGER@Novell.COM (Badger, Al)
Subject: <None>

Here's my first posting to this list; I'm a software engineer, have been
folding since 1961, and had the privilege of talking up the FOCA
convention and showing the Crawford Unicorn when I appeared on
"Jeopardy!" two years ago.

Two reasons for writing:

First, thank you to the designer and promoters of the Butterly Bomb;
modules simple enough for very young children, assembly elegant enough to
charm an expert.  I've been passing it on to all the schoolteachers I
know, and they love it.  Nice job.

Second, I've designed an origami chessboard that creates a bigger board
than Montroll's from the same size paper, and that leaves the back of the
board unseamed and uncreased.  I'd like to get this out, but I have
absolutely no skill at diagramming.  Is there any way I could get help?
If I could mail partially-folded versions to someone who can diagram,
that might help. (The Montroll chessboard in "Origami Inside-Out" uses a
36-unit square to make an 8-unit board, while my design uses a 32-unit
square -- I think that is the theoretical minimum size, as every edge of
the square is then visible as a color/white boundary on the finished
chessboard, but my math isn't up to rigorous proof.)

The Spanish Inquisition's third question is, does anyone remember a
mid-1970's book by Patrcia Crawford?  It had the two-masted sailing ship
(committed to loving memory 19 years ago), "Squirrel on Log", and
"Mermaid in Seaweed" among others, but I haven't seen or heard of it in
years.

        Best to all,
                     Al Badger (abadger@novell.com)





Date: Mon, 18 Apr 94 12:26:51 ADT
From: Kathryn Dudley <kdudley@isnet.is.wfu.edu>
Subject: Re: Origami paper

I'm speaking of Winston-Salem, NC.  A pretty place, but not an
international center of origami!  :-)

On Sat, 9 Apr 1994, Linda Casey wrote:

> magazines make beautiful origami.  What town are you speaking of?





Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 09:31:01 -0300 (ADT)
From: Soylent Green <rhudson@yorkcol.EDU>
Subject: book

Al:  It was called "Origami: A step by step guide".. by Robert Harbin.  I have
xeroxes somewhere... the book itself is out of print.

Rob





Date: Mon, 18 Apr 94 17:19:36 ADT
From: Brian Ewins <gapv64@udcf.gla.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: suggestion for wedding presents

I thought the 'thousand crane fold' was just another name
for the 'tsurifune' (sp?) - the chain of cranes. which is
only 20...but even so, 1000 cranes in 5 hours would be
possible, (3 1/2 mins per crane) as long as you're willing
give up the use of your hands in the following week :o)
        Baz.





Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 16:42:24 -0300 (ADT)
From: Agnes Tomorrow <atom@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: suggestion for wedding presents

On Sun, 17 Apr 1994, Jimmy Ning wrote:

> My friends are getting marry and I would like to make something
> for them as part of the wedding present.  I would really appreciate
> it if you could give me some suggestions.  Thanks
>
> PS.  The models should not require more than 5 hours to fold.  I
>      am swamped with work right now.

        Hm... Guess that lets out the traditional 1000 cranes, eh?

Agnes Tomorrow
atom@u.washington.edu





Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 02:26:41 -0300 (ADT)
From: CHAPBELL@delphi.COM
Subject: Wedding folds

Hey all,
    The cranes are a good thought.  For my wedding, in order to forstall my
mother putting those dreadful plastic wedding figures on top of the cake, I
folded a couple traditional dolls from Yoshizawa's _Dokuhon Origami I_ out of
opalescent paper.  Considering how abstract the figures are, it was
surprising how well they were received.  Noshi might be a nice idea, as
well.  That's a sort of ornamental wrapping for dried abalone, though one
could probably substitute crinkled cellophane or beef jerky.  And in one of
the Harbin paperbacks, _Origami 2 or 3_ I think, is a very nice model called
Wedding Bells, which looks especially nice in metallic paper.  (Two bells,
at 45 or 90 degrees to each other, made from a stretched bird base, I think.)
    Good luck,
        <>Philip Craig Chapman-Bell<>
        chapbell@delphi.com

PS  Anyone seen any Stained-glass Origami paper around lately?





Date: Tue, 19 Apr 94 04:09:33 ADT
From: jadr@oce.nl (J. Adriaanse)
Subject: Re: Origami paper (wet folding)

Joseph Wu <jwu@cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
>
>I've never tried it, but I suspect that wallpaper would be great for
>wet-folding.
>

It is! I have folded a stegosaurus and a rhinoceros (both from Kasahara's
Origami Omnibus)from wet wallpaper, because I wanted them to be fairly big.
I used the back side of the wallpaper for 'color'. I also took kinds of
wallpaper that have a nice structure to represent the skin of these animals.

You have to make the paper really wet to keep the folds from unfolding too
much afterwards.

Greetings,
Sjaak Adriaanse





Date: Tue, 19 Apr 94 06:34:51 ADT
From: Sheldon Ackerman <ackerman@dorsai.dorsai.org>
Subject: Re: suggestion for wedding presents

> Hello, everyone!  (Hi, Joseph! *wave*)
>
> This is my first posting to this mailing list.  I have only been
> folding off and on for the past 1+ year.  I think I am at the
> intermediate level.
>
> My friends are getting marry and I would like to make something
> for them as part of the wedding present.  I would really appreciate
> it if you could give me some suggestions.  Thanks
>
> - Jimmy
>
> PS.  The models should not require more than 5 hours to fold.  I
>      am swamped with work right now.

How about a money-fold? Or is that too tacky?

 >>><<<Sheldon Ackerman>>><<<
>>ackerman@dorsai.dorsai.org<<





Date: Tue, 19 Apr 94 10:06:08 ADT
From: Mark Morden <marmonk@eskimo.com>
Subject: What's new in Baltimore

It looks like I will be in Balitmore next week on business.  Does anybody
have any tips on bookstores, paper sources, etc.   I plan on taking in an
Orioles game on Monday night and then have the rest of the week for
exploring.  I don't know how much of a chance I'll have to get out of the
downtown area though.  Other, non-paper related travel tips are welcome.
Please e-mail me so we don't start a Michelin-guide thread in this
group.  (any info on the Babe Ruth museum is most welcome.)  thank you.

Mark Morden
marmonk@eskimo.com





Date: Tue, 19 Apr 94 16:15:52 ADT
From: Jimmy Ning <jhbning@barrow.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: Wedding folds

> Hey all,
>     The cranes are a good thought.  For my wedding, in order to forstall my
> mother putting those dreadful plastic wedding figures on top of the cake, I
> folded a couple traditional dolls from Yoshizawa's _Dokuhon Origami I_ out of
> opalescent paper.  Considering how abstract the figures are, it was
> surprising how well they were received.  Noshi might be a nice idea, as
> well.  That's a sort of ornamental wrapping for dried abalone, though one
> could probably substitute crinkled cellophane or beef jerky.  And in one of
> the Harbin paperbacks, _Origami 2 or 3_ I think, is a very nice model called
> Wedding Bells, which looks especially nice in metallic paper.  (Two bells,
> at 45 or 90 degrees to each other, made from a stretched bird base, I think.)
>     Good luck,
>         <>Philip Craig Chapman-Bell<>
>         chapbell@delphi.com
>
> PS  Anyone seen any Stained-glass Origami paper around lately?

The dolls and bells are very good ideas (what is a noshi?) but I don't
have access to _Dokuhon Origami I_ and _Origami 2(3?)_.  Would someone
be so kind as to make me photocopies of these models???  I'll send you
a sase.  (Too late to order these books from FOCA which requires 6
weeks delivery.  My friends are getting marry in less than a month.)

Thanks.

- Jimmy
jhbning@barrow.uwaterloo.ca





Date: Tue, 19 Apr 94 18:03:15 ADT
From: Agnes Tomorrow <atom@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: 'Stained glass' paper

On Tue, 19 Apr 1994 CHAPBELL@delphi.com wrote:

> PS  Anyone seen any Stained-glass Origami paper around lately?

        No!  When I *did* see it, I got a more than one pack--which is
good, because like many other distinctive papers, it was there and then
it was gone, never to be seen again...

Agnes Tomorrow
atom@u.washington.edu





Date: Tue, 19 Apr 94 20:10:03 ADT
From: Laurence.Biederman@um.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Rules? Huh? (puritanism)

All this talk about rules has led me to ask, can anyone think of another
art/craft that has rules?  Is origami the only art/craft for which [some] of
its participants  state firm concrete rules?





Date: Wed, 20 Apr 94 03:24:54 ADT
From: jadr@oce.nl (J. Adriaanse)
Subject: Re: Rules? Huh? (puritanism)

Laurence.Biederman@um.cc.umich.edu wrote:

>All this talk about rules has led me to ask, can anyone think of another
>art/craft that has rules?  Is origami the only art/craft for which [some] of
>its participants  state firm concrete rules?
>

I think you should make a difference between rules that have come out of
practice ans experience, and are meant to make the result better (like
'rules of thumb'), and rules that are of the kind that do not really permit
asking 'Why?'. I you ask anyway, the answer is 'Because I / God / Yoshizawa
/ your parents / tradition / ... taught you that way.' or 'Because it is
unnatural / sinful / not pure to do it any other way' or [fill in from your
own experience here].

I think any craft has its rules of thumb, and the nature of homo sapiens
takes care of the second category.

There is also the category of rules that are just there to smooth global
behaviour in society, like the rules of etiquette. They (mostly) have no
real content, but it could raise difficulties if people all behaved
differently. Think of the side of the road that you drive on. The right (or
left) side is not really better.
But this category is not what you mean, I guess. However, think of an
orchestra...

Enough for today.

Greetings,
Sjaak Adriaanse





Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 10:59:42 -0300 (ADT)
From: hull@cs.uri.edu (Tom Hull)
Subject: An origami-math puzzle!

Hellllooo!
     Guess what? In this month's issue of _Mathematics Magazine_ (Vol. 67,
No. 2, April 1994) on page 123 there is the following puzzle:

Puzzle
Starting with a square sheet of paper, fold it to produce a square
having three-fourths its area. Only five folds are allowed.

The puzzle is referenced as coming from a book called _Mathematical Brain
Benders_ by Stephen Barr, Dover Publications, NY, 1982

BUT! BUT these people are obviously non-origamists!!! I can solve the puzzle
in only FOUR (4) folds! Ha!

Try it! It's good, clean, and harmless fun!

------------------- Tom "just another way to procrastinate" Hull





Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 11:30:12 -0300 (ADT)
From: Soylent Green <rhudson@yorkcol.EDU>
Subject: Name that Fold

Tom, I can solve that puzzle in three folds.





Date: Wed, 20 Apr 94 17:24:38 ADT
From: lynn@pharmdec.wustl.edu (Pencil Sharpeners)
Subject: Re: An origami-math puzzle!

>Starting with a square sheet of paper, fold it to produce a square
>having three-fourths its area. Only five folds are allowed.

i must be missing something.
it's easily done in two, folding 1/4 the way
down on two perpendicular sides.





Date: Wed, 20 Apr 94 18:15:24 ADT
From: Joseph Wu <jwu@cs.ubc.ca>
Subject: Robert Lang News and other Unfinished Business

Some of you asked some questions about Robert Lang before and expected
that I had the answers. Well, now I do, having just received a letter from
him. So here we go, quoting directly from Dr. Lang:

1. Origami Insects is at a finished first draft, and is now being peddled
to publishers.

2. I have folded exactly two full-blown Black Forest Cuckoo Clocks, one
that I own (and that is in all the pictures); one that got singed at
Toshi's [Aoyagi in Toronto], but which I restored for him last year to
perfect health (except it still reeks of smoke). Of course, I folded a
whole bunch of small ones when I was working out the design back in '87.
The first one took six hours; when I folded Toshi's, I cut it down to 4.5.
Of course, if you don't wet-fold and use smaller paper, you can probably
cut that in half again.

Some months ago I began a short article on origami design and my computer
program that designs complex origami. Well, one thing led to another, and
the article has blossomed into a novella of about 30 pages.

Dr. Lang also said that he is still trying to get 'Net access through his
workplace, but that that will still take at least a few months.

Other Unfinished Business:

I owe all of you people a few things, and will endeavour to get them done
as soon as possible.

The review of Tom Hull's _Origami_Plain_and_Simple_ is almost complete and
will be posted shortly.

The review of PictureThis! 4 will have to wait until my computer comes
back to the land of the living. The machines here at school aren't capable
of running PC software.

The roses I promised to various people are complete and will be sent out
in the next few days. Only 6 people have requested roses, so there are
still 4 roses to be claimed (first-come-first-served).





Date: Wed, 20 Apr 94 22:39:05 ADT
From: samreye@aol.com
Subject: Re: An origami-math puzzle!

You need 3/4th's the area, am I right?
No way can it be done in two.
        16
   |-------------|                  Work with me here.
   |             |                   area = 16^2 = 256
   |             |                  folding your way yields side 12, right?
   |-------------|                  new area = 12^2 = 144
                                   144 / 256 = 0.5625  not 0.75

Jim





Date: Thu, 21 Apr 94 01:07:32 ADT
From: bernie@fantasyfarm.com (Bernie Cosell)
Subject: Re: An origami-math puzzle!

In <9404202019.AA13399@pharmdec.wustl.edu> on Apr 20, Pencil Sharpeners wrote:

}
} >Starting with a square sheet of paper, fold it to produce a square
} >having three-fourths its area. Only five folds are allowed.
}
}
} i must be missing something.
} it's easily done in two, folding 1/4 the way
} down on two perpendicular sides.

Indeed, first off, your procedure involves four folds [one to
divide the edge in half, and then the second to get to the 3/4
point].  Even if you do a 45 from the first edge to mark the second
edge it'd take you two more folds.  Second off, your math is
faulty.  Your square has only 9/16 of the area of the original
[rather than 12/16, which was required].

The problem is that you have to be able to mark a length which is
sqrt(3)/2.  This is the altitude of an equilateral triangle with
unit side.  I think it is also clear that you can't do it by
measuring along two edges and then just folding the square [It
seems fairly clear that you can't measure the desired length in
just two folds, and he did say five, after all].  Since the goal is
five, you also can't do _three_ folds on each edge.  So you need to
uncover a double trick: first, how to develop the correct length
edge, and second how to complete it into a square.

No, I haven't solved it yet, either...

  /Bernie\

Bernie Cosell                               bernie@fantasyfarm.com
Fantasy Farm Fibers, Pearisburg, VA         (703) 921-2358





Date: Thu, 21 Apr 94 05:20:57 ADT
From: Agnes Tomorrow <atom@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Rules? Huh? (puritanism)

On Tue, 19 Apr 1994 Laurence.Biederman@um.cc.umich.edu wrote:

> All this talk about rules has led me to ask, can anyone think of another
> art/craft that has rules?  Is origami the only art/craft for which [some] of
> its participants  state firm concrete rules?

        I thought it was more a question of definition--it's not a 'rule'
that opera is musical theatre involving voices and orchestra, it's the
definition.  Likewise, I consider the definition of origami to be folding
paper, not using cutting or glue.  You certainly can make things  with
paper using scissors and glue, but I don't think they qualify as
origami.  (Does anyone know if there's another Japanese term for this
sort of thing?)  Paper sculpture, maybe...

Agnes Tomorrow
atom@u.washington.edu





Date: Thu, 21 Apr 94 09:23:20 ADT
From: Sheldon Ackerman <ackerman@dorsai.dorsai.org>
Subject: Re: Rules? Huh? (puritanism)

>       I thought it was more a question of definition--it's not a 'rule'
> that opera is musical theatre involving voices and orchestra, it's the
> definition.  Likewise, I consider the definition of origami to be folding
> paper, not using cutting or glue.  You certainly can make things  with
> paper using scissors and glue, but I don't think they qualify as
> origami.  (Does anyone know if there's another Japanese term for this
> sort of thing?)  Paper sculpture, maybe...
>
> Agnes Tomorrow
> atom@u.washington.edu

I'd say your analogy is incorrect. Opera has its universal definition;
origami does not. You, personally may define it however you wish. Others
will disagree with you.

The above is obviously only my opinion, just as YOUR definition of origami
is your definition.

 >>><<<Sheldon Ackerman>>><<<
>>ackerman@dorsai.dorsai.org<<





Date: Thu, 21 Apr 94 10:08:05 ADT
From: Marc Vigo i Anglada SIG-LiSI <marc@turing.upc.es>
Subject: Hello!

  Hi, origamists!

  This is the first time I write to this mailing  list, I've just find
it few  days ago. I'm a postgraduate  student at  the UPC (Universitat
Politecnica de Catalunya), and I'm doing my PhD in Computer Graphics.

  I learn origami basically from books, because I  know few people who
is interested in it, so I was glad to see there are so many origamists
and to find PostScript files with new models.  Although I have created
very  few and simple   models, I can  send some   of  them if you  are
interested (I've access  to graphical  terminals, PostScript  devices,
drawing programs, etc).

  I'm very   interested in  your   discussion about the    language to
describe origami  models, cause  few  years ago I  was thinking   on a
modellisation of then.  My   studies include Solid Modelling,  which I
think is very close to  what you're trying to define.   My idea was  a
little bit different from yours  (I can't assure  that, I haven't read
all the mail, there's too  much): first, I  was thinking on a language
that could describe the resulting model (and each intermediate figure)
instead  of the folding process,  but then I decided  that it would be
very useful to use both schemes because it  would be more suitable for
a computer program.

  My  conclusions  were    that   the  language  had   to    deal with
three-dimensional (3D) objects, not just planar, because of three main
questions:

   - There exist 3D models; this includes models with non-planar
     folds, which are specially difficult to describe whith a language;

   - The thickness of the paper has to be taken into account;

   - The movements paper does when you fold it "live" in 3D, you
     couldn't do it unless you are in a 3D space.

The two last points do not imply a 3D language,  they only are telling
us that an  origami program had to manage  3D entities. I was thinking
of an implementation where you could  see the model  from any point of
view and the   folding  process animated.    In this way,    you could
understand better the (complex) folds than just with a book.

  Of course, if you don't  agree with me  or you just don't understand
what I'm trying to say (I  know my english  isn't very good!), you can
ask me for a better explanation.

                                 MARC.

   Marc Vigo                               /\  /\   ------   /\
                                          /  \/  \  \    /  /  \
   marc@lsi.upc.es                       /   /\   \  \  /  /    \
   Seccio de Grafics                     ------ ---   \/   ------
   Dept. LiSI
   U.P.C.  --  Barcelona





Date: Thu, 21 Apr 94 10:34:53 ADT
From: Soylent Green <rhudson@yorkcol.edu>
Subject: Re: Rules? Huh?

Origami:  Ori=fold
         Kami=paper

That's the definition.. any flexibility would include:

1.  paper size (not specified by the word)
2.  paper type
3.  number of papers put together

Cutting and glueing contradict the word "origami".. you can't very well
classify flatulence with opera (unless its unintentional)!

Rob





Date: Thu, 21 Apr 94 11:57:36 ADT
From: Brian Ewins <gapv64@udcf.gla.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Rules? Huh? (puritanism)

|       I thought it was more a question of definition--it's not a 'rule'
| that opera is musical theatre involving voices and orchestra, it's the
| definition.  Likewise, I consider the definition of origami to be folding
| paper, not using cutting or glue.  You certainly can make things  with
| paper using scissors and glue, but I don't think they qualify as
| origami.  (Does anyone know if there's another Japanese term for this
| sort of thing?)  Paper sculpture, maybe...
|
| Agnes Tomorrow
| atom@u.washington.edu

I thought this was kirigami ? (I think that literally means paper cutting,
like when you make chains of newspaper people. I don't know that it
covers models which include both cutting _and_ folding).

        Baz.





Date: Thu, 21 Apr 94 12:29:45 ADT
From: Brian Ewins <gapv64@udcf.gla.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Hello!

It would be nice to be able to do all origami on the computer,
but that's what the '80%' thread started for: nobody really
believes we can manage many of the things we'd like (such as
curved paper and fully 3-d models). There's a large class of
models which are '2-d enough' for us to ignore the third
dimension. Specifically, for many folds, although the folding
process 'lives in 3d', the 2-d result of the fold can be
predicted from the geometry.
        However this class needn't be seen as limiting. I tried
to get across in my 'big' post on this stuff the idea that
the language is separate from the implementation; as long as
we, as far as possible, avoid mentioning the _internal_ coordinate
system in the _external_ language, we leave the door open for
different ways to read the folding instructions contained in
the language. Right now, a 2-d internal representation is doable,
but the description of the model that is used should be able
to be turned into a 3-d representaion later, from the same
piece of 'OriGo' code.
        I agree, that a long term aim should be to have a
program which can animate the folds being done - but I see
this as an extension of the 'OriGo' thing, not as a different
project.

               If you think your English is bad, you
should hear my Spanish - I only know the essential phrases
'hamburgeza con queso' and 'cerveza' :o) (and I've probably
spelled those wrong too)
                     Baz.





Date: Thu, 21 Apr 94 17:46:51 ADT
From: GURKEWITZ@WCSUB.CTSTATEU.EDU
Subject: Re: An origami-math puzzle!

Bernie,

    I agree with your suggestion of the length of a side of the 3/4
area square being the height of an equilateral triangle with unit
side, i.e. sqr(3)/2

    But I can only see how to get the desired square in 5 folds,
not 4 or 3.

As a hint, to fold an equilateral triangle out of square, with the
bottom edge of the square also an edge of the triangle,

1) Fold the vertical book fold
2) Take the lower right corner of the square and fold it to lie
   on the vertical book fold (the altitude of the equilateral
   triangle) so that the lower edge of the square goes from
   the lower left corner of the square, to the vertical fold.

   The point where the lower right corner of the square meets
   the vertical fold is the third vertex of an equilateral
   triangle, where the other two vertices are the left and right
   lower corners of the square.

So far, two folds ... one for the vertical and one two locate
the center vertex of the equilateral triangle.

All that's left is marking off a square with the altitude as
a side.

Rona





Date: Thu, 21 Apr 94 18:42:48 ADT
From: Cynthia Pettit <pettit@cs.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: origami math puzzle -- two folds...

I'll explain why the "two fold" method doesn't work!

If you fold *one* side down by 1/4, then the *rectangle* is 3/4 the
area the square was...

Cyn

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are
the easiest person to fool."  - Richard P. Feynman





Date: Thu, 21 Apr 94 20:24:17 ADT
From: Steve Storm <storm@nas.nasa.gov>
Subject: An origami-math puzzle!

In regards to the 3/4 of a square problem...

I did it in 4 folds!  I'm so proud of myself I could burst!

I'd figured out the ratio of sqrt(3)/2, but I needed the hint on
how to mark that ratio.  Here are my steps.

A         B

 |   .   |
 |   .   |
 |   .   |
 |   .   |

C         D

1.  Fold vertical fold (side AC to side BD)  Unfold.
2.  Valley fold D to Vertical line, using C as corner.  Don't unfold yet.
    The point D now marks the ratio needed. (Thanks for the hint!)
3.  Mountain fold C underneath to B, using A as corner.  (equivalent to
    marking diagonal line AD before D got moved)
4   Valley fold side AB down using the point D as a mark.  The right hand
    side (what used to be BD) is used to maintain right angles by making
    sure that B lands on that right hand edge.

When you unfold it all, there will be a square marked by creases that is
3/4 the area of the original square.  The trick is that step 4 marked
out two sides of the new square at once.

-storm





Date: Thu, 21 Apr 94 23:26:28 ADT
From: LM04000 <LM04@NEMOMUS.BITNET>
Subject: 3-D origami

Hi

I am not computer literate so I haven't understood much of the
discussion about computer diagramming of origami but I
Marc Vigo mentioned the possibility of a program that can rotate a model
and allow you to see it from different angles as it show you how to
fold.  I got a program 5-6 years ago that lets you stop the instructions
at each step and rotate the model change the speed of folding and change
the size of the model.  The screen is divided with 2/3 for the folding
of the model with written instructions on the remaining 1/3.  The
program also lets you select the color of each side of your paper.
Unfortunately I don't have a color monitor so I use an emucolor program
and have black and green.  The program is 3-D Origami.  A group actually
used the program with a projection unit.  I have a shareware program in
basic that has more models but gives no control over speed or view.

I have been folding 27 years and have learned from books.  I don't
understand how it works but I love it.

Nancy  "the bird lady"





Date: Fri, 22 Apr 94 09:24:55 ADT
From: GURKEWITZ@WCSUB.CTSTATEU.EDU
Subject: Re: An origami-math puzzle!

After my last posting a realized how to do the folding in 4 folds instead
of 5, by folding the diagonal under before marking the side.

It seems like maybe 3 folds would be had if you just brought the
left edge behind to the top edge without making a crease, and then
marking off the edge of the square.

Rona





Date: Fri, 22 Apr 94 14:25:32 ADT
From: Shmuel Weidberg <shmuel@io.org>
Subject: Re: 3-D origami

On Thu, 21 Apr 1994, LM04000 wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am not computer literate so I haven't understood much of the
> discussion about computer diagramming of origami but I
> Marc Vigo mentioned the possibility of a program that can rotate a model
> and allow you to see it from different angles as it show you how to
> fold.  I got a program 5-6 years ago that lets you stop the instructions
> at each step and rotate the model change the speed of folding and change
> the size of the model.  The screen is divided with 2/3 for the folding
> of the model with written instructions on the remaining 1/3.  The
> program also lets you select the color of each side of your paper.
> Unfortunately I don't have a color monitor so I use an emucolor program
> and have black and green.  The program is 3-D Origami.  A group actually
> used the program with a projection unit.  I have a shareware program in
> basic that has more models but gives no control over speed or view.
>
> I have been folding 27 years and have learned from books.  I don't
> understand how it works but I love it.
>
> Nancy  "the bird lady"
>
>
Do you have a copy of the program I can look at?

Can anyone tell me how to get ahold of interesting, complicated items to
fold? The most interesting item I have found is a jack in the box folded
out of a double square.





Date: Fri, 22 Apr 94 16:22:27 ADT
From: hull@cs.uri.edu (Tom Hull)
Subject: RE: The Origami Collection

Hey! At a time when I was supposed to be studying for my PhD comps, I was
instead perusing through my origami book collection. In the first reprint
booklet of J. J. Casalonga (the mad Corsican folder)'s COSB (the Corsican
Origami Society Bulliten) issues, he talks about The Origami Collection
a bit. Since people were wondering what The Origami Collection was all
about, I thought I'd share the little info that I've found.

Apparently The Origami Collection was a journal of origami models that
originated in the mid-late eighties (around 86 or 87 would be my guess).
It was produced and edited by a guy named Mark Overmars. According to the COSB
issues, The Origami Collection ran at least 5 issues, but then stopped.
J.J. Casalonga speculated that the reason for the journal's termination
was the fact that Mark Overmars got married around the same time.

So how does one get copies of The Origami Collection? I haven't a clue!
Try contacting Mark Overmars would be one strategy. Another would be to
write (or call) the Friends in NYC (FOCA). I would think that they'd have
copies, and if their library system is running they might let members
borrow the issues for a while.

Hope that satisfies someone's curiosity!
------------------------- Tom "Read it, quick!!!" Hull





Date: Tue, 26 Apr 94 00:15:45 ADT
From: MJNAUGHTON@amherst.edu
Subject: interesting,complicated

Hi Shmuel!
"Interesting and complicated" is a matter of taste, I guess, but John
Montroll's books (especially "Origami for the Enthusiast") and Kasahara's
"Viva Origami" are two I would recommend. . . .
Mike "I couldn't figure them all out, myself!" Naughton
