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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 10:41:22 -0400
From: Philip Craig Chapman-Bell <CHAPBELL@delphi.COM>
Subject: Pop Culture Watch (and talkin' turkey)

My Dear All and Sundry,
     Recent origami-in-the-media sightings:
          The recent movie version of Jane Austen's _Persuasion_: Anne
Elliot finds a letter from her old boyfriend in the attic folded into a
paper boat (he's a naval man).  Later, Admiral Croft shows the Musgrove boys
how to fold a paper boat, and Anne and the boys are shown launching it.
(Janeites will immediately note that these are all extratextual, and I would
have said anachronistic till I saw John Smith's note on the _Sphaera
Mundi_.)
          "Ned and Stacy," a rather pedestrian sitcom on Fox, has last night
Ned expressing his contempt for his roommate's (rubber) checks by making a
traditional crane of them.  Interestingly, he makes it into a magic trick.

     Re: Turkey models -- I like Mark Cassida's note on modifying the
peacock, as what Spanish I know I learned from Solarzano's _Papairoflexia
Zoomorfica_, and I recall that while a turkey is "pavo," a peacock is "pavo
real," (a royal turkey, I think.)
          Yours,
               <>Philip<>

PS Someone (John Smith?) wrote in recently about paper fly-cages in _The
Duchess of Malfi_ (a groovin' play, if you ain't read it) -- I recently came
across a reference to the same in Dickens's _Dombey & Son_ -- on a woman's
mantelpiece, alongside other knickknackery.  The OED was no help: what
exactly _is_ a paper fly-cage?  Do any of our British correspondents know?

Philip Craig Chapman-Bell  Northampton, Massachusetts
chapbell@delphi.com

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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 10:42:19 -0400
From: terryh@lamg.COM (Terry Hall)
Subject: Re: Desparately Seeking Origami Fantasy

John,

In response to your plea;
>I recently saw another reference to the book "Origami Fantasy" by Fumiaka
Kawahata. I wanted to know if anyone has a line on where to find this book!<

I have someone working on obtaining the book and understand that it will cost
around $50. When I get it I will ask if more are available.

Terry Hall





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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 14:49:18 -0400
From: Jeannine Mosely <j9@concentra.com>
Subject: Re: Pop Culture Watch

Philip Craig Chapman-Bell writes:

        Recent origami-in-the-media sightings:
             The recent movie version of Jane Austen's _Persuasion_: Anne
   Elliot finds a letter from her old boyfriend in the attic folded into a
   paper boat (he's a naval man).  Later, Admiral Croft shows the Musgrove boys
   how to fold a paper boat, and Anne and the boys are shown launching it.
   (Janeites will immediately note that these are all extratextual, and I would
   have said anachronistic till I saw John Smith's note on the _Sphaera
   Mundi_.)
             "Ned and Stacy," a rather pedestrian sitcom on Fox, has last night
   Ned expressing his contempt for his roommate's (rubber) checks by making a
   traditional crane of them.  Interestingly, he makes it into a magic trick.

Did anyone else catch "Pinky and the Brain" (on the Warner-Brothers
channel) last Sunday evening?  Brain teaches Pinky how to fold a
flapping bird out a piece of paper, and then for the rest of the
episode, Pinky folds birds out of any stray paper he gets his hands
on, with the usual inevitable disastrous consequences.  The folding
sequence is too short to be realistic, and he seems to be able to make
birds out of any size rectangle he gets his hands on.

If you missed it, don't despair.  The Sunday night show is usually
rerun the following Saturday morning, just after Animaniacs.  Check
your local listings.

        -- jeannine "narf" mosely





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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 14:45:36 -0400
From: dzimm@nando.net (David Zimmerman)
Subject: Re: Origami for seeming 'un-WOW-ables'

"> M. Schleicher P. Saalbach wrote ..."
>
> Hi all!  Need your help in convincing a VERY practical-minded, engineer,
> 55-year-old, brother-in-law that it's a 'sin' he's lived his life without
> origami. I want to fold some stuff for him that has him saying, "Say, let me
> see that.  That's kinda neat.  How did you do it?"
>

You could try the tesselations and recursions of Messrs Hull, Palmer, and
     Shafer.
The deeper I get into this stuff the deeper I get.

--
David P Zimmerman             dzimm@nando.net
916 Riderwood Ct               919 557 7692
WillowSpring NC 27592           D-17293

 "Get the dinosaurs in, Martha, they're predicting comets." --Dr. Barry D. Gehm





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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 14:42:43 -0400
From: jfryer@lib.ursinus.edu
Subject: Re: Origami records (OR) or not?

Jeannine Mosely wrote

>I have plans to make a depth 3 recursion model of a Sierpinski's
>sponge (nice fractal solid) out of business cards.  As it will require
>48,000 cards (but only two creases per), I think I'm going to need
>some help.  (I have the cards, though!)  Shall we try for a record at
>the next convention?

Sounds like a great convention project!
                                 jfryer@lib.ursinus.edu





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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 14:52:03 -0400
From: vann@tredgar.cardiff.COM (VAnn Cornelius)
Subject: RE: Turkey

I just found a turkey in a book published in Japan in 1967.
It is the work of Kosho Uchiyamo.

The square has two adjoining corners blintzed to form the future head.
The future wings are pleated to 16ths.

Then it looks like the traditional swan method with the head folded back
and swiveled up. The tail is formed from a single pleat across the main
pleats. Again when the whole is folded on the future spine of the bird,
the tail will swivel up.

The pleating of the body midsection expands to create a plump bird. The
tail flares .  It looks rather turkey like.

Page? of Origami Play published by Japan Publications Trading Co.

V'Ann





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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 14:37:50 -0400
From: "M.J.van.Gelder" <M.J.van.Gelder@rc.rug.nl>
Subject: Re: Origami records (OR) or not?

m> Does anyone know the record for:
m>
m> Maximum No. of Modular Units in a single origami construction?
m>
m> Origami FTC has the 900 Sonobe Unit "Sphere" by Students of the Ikeda
m> Institute (Osaka)
m>
m> and several Kasahara sculptures of Sonobe Unit variations numbering
m> over 100 units; perhaps there are Kasahara sculptures with even
m> more units?
m>
m> I believe the 900 Unit "Sphere" is the limit for the Sonobe Unit
m> technique used, and possibly for identical units, at least as with
m> respect to polyhedrons (Fuse's molecular-like unit "chains" wouldn't
m> be similarly limited, of cours. The Kasahara
m> sculptures involve several Sonobe variations.

The last version of my arch was build of over 600 units.
And we made a mosaic wall on the OSN convention in Nederland several years
ago. That was folded by the attendants and build up by a group of about 20
people. It counted over 2200 units and showed a mosaic of the logo of the
OSN: a swan.

m> Another possibility is "most units used to construct a
m> Sullivan Castle"...

I created some extra modules to that units to make a large roof.
I made a castle with a large roof, four towers on the corners, a wall
surrounding an area of about 70 x 70 cm and an archway through the wall.
Together with some trees, some shrubs and two knights on horseback it took
about 500 sheets of paper.

Maarten van Gelder, Rekencentrum RuG, RijksUniversiteit Groningen, Holland





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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 16:19:56 -0400
From: Jeannine Mosely <j9@concentra.com>
Subject: Sierpinksi's sponge

A couple of people responded personally to my earlier post about the
Sierpinski's sponge.  I thought I would answer their quesitons by
elaborating the project for the rest of list.

        -- jeannine "would be record breaker" mosely

Sierpinski's sponge is a fractal solid that can be described as
follows.  Take a cube, divide it into 27 = 3 x 3 x 3 smaller cubes of
the same size and remove the cube in the center and the six
cubes that share faces with it.  You are left with the eight small
corner cubes and twelve small edge cubes holding them together.  Now,
imagine repeating this process on each of the remaining 20 cubes.
Repeat again.  And again ...

A depth 0 sponge is just the original cube.  A depth 1 sponge is the
20 cube object described above.  A depth 2 sponge is made of 400 = 20
x 20 cubes.  A depth 3 sponge has 8000 = 20 x 20 x 20 cubes.  Since
each cube is made from 6 business cards, we need 48,000 cards for the
depth 3 sponge.  Of course, we would not build it by cutting away
pieces from a larger cube, we would build it up out of small cubes.

The size of the depth 0 sponge is 2" x 2" x 2", when made from
standard American business cards.  The depth 1 sponge is 6" x 6" x 6",
the depth 2 sponge is 18" x 18" x 18", and the depth 3 sponge is 54" x
54" x 54", or 4.5 feet or  1.37 meters on a side.  Not outrageously
large!  (But it won't fit through my doorway or in my van!)

My largest concern is for structural integrity.  48,000 business cards
are heavy.  You know those boxes of copying paper that hold 10 reams
of paper?  You know how heavy one is when full?  48,000 business cards
weigh about as much as 4 such boxes.  There is no way one person could
lift the final model.  If it's that heavy, can the model even support
its own weight?  I think it can.

At its densest, there will places where a single cube on the bottom
layer will have a full column of 26 cubes stacked on top of it.  I am
perfectly satisfied that a cube can bear the weight of 26 others.  I
haven't actually built such a column, but I have placed 156 = 26x6
cards on top of a cube and it didn't mind at all.

But it's not even as bad as that, because most of the time the column
above a given cube will have gaps in it.  The bottom layer of the
sponge will consist of 512 = 8 x 8 x 8 cubes, which must support all
of the 8000 cubes, with an average loading of 15.625 cubes per base
cube (including the base cube itself).  Convinced?

If this object were to built as a joint effort, it would probably work
best for 20 people (or 20 groups) to each build a depth 2 sponge to
bring to the convention.  Each mini-sponge would only require 2400
cards, or just under 5 boxes.  These could then be assembled on site.
Anybody interested?





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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 16:57:43 -0400
From: Kevin Thorne <C598033@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>

Maarten,

Where do you find the instructions on this Sullivan Castle you talked about
making modifications to?  It sounds pretty cool.  Even more so if you
take the time to add new dimensions of your own like the towers, etc.

Kevin
c598033@mizzou1.missouri.edu
Columbia, MO
USA





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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 16:59:09 -0400
From: dzimm@nando.NET (David Zimmerman)
Subject: Re: Sierpinksi's sponge

"> Jeannine Mosely wrote ..."
>
>
>
> A depth 0 sponge is just the original cube.  A depth 1 sponge is the
> 20 cube object described above.  A depth 2 sponge is made of 400 = 20
> x 20 cubes.  A depth 3 sponge has 8000 = 20 x 20 x 20 cubes.  Since
> each cube is made from 6 business cards, we need 48,000 cards for the
> depth 3 sponge.  Of course, we would not build it by cutting away
> pieces from a larger cube, we would build it up out of small cubes.
>
Wouldn't it be the case that many of faces of the cubies (a term invented
to describe the small cubes ina rubics cube) would be absent? Consider
the edge cubies in the depth 1 sponge. Only 4 faces would actually
have to exist. The other 2 would be hidden by the corner cubies that the
edge cubies are between.

--
David P Zimmerman             dzimm@nando.net
916 Riderwood Ct               919 557 7692
WillowSpring NC 27592           D-17293

"If we breed like rabbits, in the long run we have to die like rabbits"
Carlson on population growth





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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 17:00:38 -0400
From: ACPQUINN@myriad.middlebury.edu
Subject: Re: Origami records (OR) or not?

re: the sierpinski sponge:
I'm assuming you mean the cubic version, not the tetrahedronal version, which
would be well-nigh impossible to construct without glue or something.  In any
case, i'm willing to help!
-Alasdair





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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 16:55:52 -0400
From: jmarcoli@stratacom.com (John Marcolina)
Subject: Re: Origami for seeming 'un-WOW-ables'

Here's a few I've folded that have earned Wows from those who saw them:

Chess Board - Montroll (the use of both sides of the paper knock their socks
off).
Jack-in-the-box - Max Hulme, from Kenneways "Complete Origami". (Best
response from Engineers).
Atlantic Purple Sea Urchin - Lang (A square, with no cutting? Are you sure?).
Skeleton of T-Rex - Yoshino (No audible response, due to jaw being open at an
extreme angle).

John Marcolina
jmarcolina@strata.com





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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 17:37:39 -0400
From: Valerie Vann <75070.304@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: Where to find modular "pineapple" form

I actually wasn't imply profiteering, just issuing a warning that
the book is expensive by most folks standards.

As a die-hard book freak, I seldom pay attention to prices
when buying books, and especially origami books.

As a professor once said in a discussion of "human needs":
"If you want something badly enough, you NEED IT!"

That applies to origami books!

--valerie





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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 17:24:07 -0400
From: Valerie Vann <75070.304@compuserve.com>
Subject: Origami for seeming 'un-WOW-ables'

Does it have to be able to send flat?

How about a modular polyhedron do-it-your-self kit?
Fold up 30 or 60 or 90 units and give 'em to him
with assembly directions. That ought to impress
an engineer. They impress the heck out of all the
engineers in my office, and my brother too.

I have worked out the design for a geodesic dome,
but unfortunately the diagrams aren't ready for
prime time yet....

Another modular that usually isn't thought of as
modulare is Sullivan Castles: engineers and
architects usually freak out over those too.

--valerie





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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 19:43:18 -0400
From: Fred Curtis <fred@zip.com.au>
Subject: Re: Sierpinksi's sponge

Jeannine Mosely wrote:
[...]
> But it's not even as bad as that, because most of the time the column
> above a given cube will have gaps in it.  The bottom layer of the
> sponge will consist of 512 = 8 x 8 x 8 cubes, which must support all
> of the 8000 cubes, with an average loading of 15.625 cubes per base
> cube (including the base cube itself).  Convinced?

Nope :).  Surely the problem will be stresses where cubes are joined
side-to-side.  Perhaps I've mistaken the solid you've described, but
I'd've thought a vertical edge of the sponge would tend to distort
thus:

   XXXXXX..        XXXXXX..
   XXXXXX..       XXXXXX..
   XX  XX..       XX  XX..
   XX  XX..      XX  XX..
   XXXXXX..      XXXXXX..
   XXXXXX..      XXXXXX..
   XX           XX
   XX           XX
   XX           XX
   XX           XX
   XX           XX
   XX           XX
   XXXXXX..      XXXXXX..
   XXXXXX..      XXXXXX..
   XX  XX..      XX  XX..
   XX  XX..       XX  XX..
   XXXXXX..       XXXXXX..
   XXXXXX..        XXXXXX..

But perhaps I'm bitter, twisted and pessimistic because the 420 unit 3"
diameter model I built [ polyhedra fans are warmly invitied to check out
B.M. Stewart's "Adventures among the toroids for polyhedra with curious
cavities ] out of flimsy A4 edge units is collapsing under its own
weight in a nearby office :).

Cheers,
-Fred Curtis [fred@zip.com.au]





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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 22:21:55 -0400
From: Jack.Thomas.Weres@att.com
Subject: dollar bill shirts & sending money

fellow paper folders,,,

has this been mentioned before???

since sending paper money through the mail
is usually viewed as a "no no"

that one way to send money through the mail
is to fold money into the dollar bill shirt fold
or other flat money fold

i'm sure that if someone is holding the envelope up to the light
to see if there is money in there
wouldn't be able to figure out that there's money in there
if it looks like a shirt or space shuttle

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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 22:27:10 -0400
From: marckrsh@pipeline.com (Marc Kirschenbaum)
Subject: Re: Origami for seeming 'un-WOW-ables'

On Nov 15, 1995 10:38:33, 'parkmaam@gol.com (M. Schleicher P. Saalbach)'
wrote:

>Hi all!  Need your help in convincing a VERY practical-minded, engineer,
>55-year-old, brother-in-law that it's a 'sin' he's lived his life without
>origami. I want to fold some stuff for him that has him saying, "Say, let
me
>see that.  That's kinda neat.  How did you do it?"

I guess some people just don't see anything impressive about some of the
clever design that goes into a lot of the origami models out there. Since
your brother-in-law is an engineer, I would imagine that he would want to
try to see beyond the surface asthetics of a well folded model.

In terms of sheer *WOW* criteria, I do have a few that most people seem to
find impressive (or impossible, as the case may be). Many people are
impressed by some of the colour change tricks that have adorned some models
out there. I for one am still impressed aboud something like Montroll's
*Zebra.* Yes, I have a full understanding of how those stripes were
produced, but even after folding the model, I still have to absorb the idea
that this was all done from a single square.

Another impresseve feature of some models is where topological trickery is
preformed. Examples might include a chain link from a single sheet, or
seemlesly connected struts on an airplane. Many multi-subject models (such
as people holding an object), seem to defy the laws of paper. If finding a
model that combines colour changes and topological transformations does not
perk your in-law's interest, I would check to see if he is comotose.

Still impressed with origami, Marc





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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 22:38:56 -0400
From: Tim Rueger <rueger@areaplg2.corp.mot.com>
Subject: Origami Fantasy - some early impressions

Hi, All,

A couple weeks ago I got a copy of Fumiaki Kawahata's new book, "Origami
Fantasy".  Try and get it, folks.  It's really good.  Our esteemed
Robert Lang had pumped it up here a few months ago, and the book lives
up to it.  It's got lots of cool, *hard* models in it.  (I love cool,
*hard* models.)  My favorite ones are his Stegosaurus and his
Ankylosaurus.

The Stego is pictured on the back cover of the book; it is remarkably
realistic and quite large for a given size of paper.  There are *eleven*
staggered, graduated-size plates along the back, spikes on the tail,
good head detail, and the body is nicely rounded out.  A 10-inch square
turns into a 5.5-inch long model; quite impressive, given the level of
detail in the model.

The Ankylo is a bit harder to picture.  It has a finely detailed grid of
armor (?) plates, looking like a badger with bathroom tiles glued to its
back.  This back structure is really neat; I'm not aware of many
examples of folding to achieve texturing effect.  It, too, is pretty
large for a 10-inch square, about 5 inches when finished (some of that
is a longish tail).  The precreases to achieve the grid are *tedious*; I
counted 53 in all.

By and large, the toughest models in this new book aren't quite as hard
as the toughest ones in Lang's recent Insects book, but they're
definitely not for the faint of heart.

The book is definitely worth seeking out.  Its cost will probably be
pretty high; I paid about $47 US for it from Sasuga's in Cambridge, MA.
(I understand that they are currently sold out of the book.)  I hope
OrigamiUSA gets it soon.

-Tim
--
Tim Rueger             Motorola CCRL IC Design Laboratory, IL02-2921
Fax  : (708) 538-4593  Internet: rueger@areaplg2.corp.mot.com





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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 22:57:44 -0400
From: Jeannine Mosely <j9@concentra.com>
Subject: Toroids (was Re: Sierpinksi's sponge)

Fred Curtis writes:

   But perhaps I'm bitter, twisted and pessimistic because the 420 unit 3"
   diameter model I built [ polyhedra fans are warmly invitied to check out
   B.M. Stewart's "Adventures among the toroids for polyhedra with curious
   cavities ] out of flimsy A4 edge units is collapsing under its own
   weight in a nearby office :).

For those who have never seen this astonishing work, its correct title is

Adventures Among the Toroids

subtitled:

A study of quasi-convex aplanar tunneled orientable polyhedra
of positive genus having regular faces with disjoint interiors, being
an elaborate description and instructions for the construction of an
enormous number of new and fascinating mathematical models of interest
to students of Euclidean geometry and topology, both secondary and
collegiate, to designers, engineers and architects, to the scientific
audience concerned with molecular and other structural problems, and to
mathematicians, both professional and dilletante, with hundreds of
exercises and search projects, many completely outlined for self instruction

It is published by the author and available only by mail order from
the author at:

B.M. Stewart
4494 Wausau Rd.
Okemose, MI 48864





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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 23:19:16 -0400
From: Fabricio Santos <fabricio@individual.puug.pt>
Subject: Is there a FAQ on Origamis?

   Hi!

   I'm from Portugal and around here there is little info on origamis.

   I would like to know if there is already a FAQ on Origamis. If so I would
like someone to tell me where I can find it.

   Thanks in advance!
++++ ---- ++++ ---- ++++ --- +++ ---
Fabr=EDcio Santos
http://individual.puug.pt/~fabricio
EMail: fabricio@individual.puug.pt





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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 00:45:35 -0400
From: Jeannine Mosely <j9@concentra.com>
Subject: Re: Sierpinksi's sponge

David Zimmerman writes:

   > A depth 0 sponge is just the original cube.  A depth 1 sponge is the
   > 20 cube object described above.  A depth 2 sponge is made of 400 = 20
   > x 20 cubes.  A depth 3 sponge has 8000 = 20 x 20 x 20 cubes.  Since
   > each cube is made from 6 business cards, we need 48,000 cards for the
   > depth 3 sponge.  Of course, we would not build it by cutting away
   > pieces from a larger cube, we would build it up out of small cubes.
   >
   Wouldn't it be the case that many of faces of the cubies (a term invented
   to describe the small cubes ina rubics cube) would be absent? Consider
   the edge cubies in the depth 1 sponge. Only 4 faces would actually
   have to exist. The other 2 would be hidden by the corner cubies that the
   edge cubies are between.

The two faces you refer to would be concealed, but they cannot be
absent because they are essential to the process that links adjacent
cubes together.  Remember folks, no glue!





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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 04:00:53 -0400
From: "M.J.van.Gelder" <M.J.van.Gelder@rc.rug.nl>
Subject: Re: Origami records (OR) or not?

What do you think of wearable Origami? Like a waistcoat and hat assembled
from units? The waistcoat is made of 814 units and lifesize; I showed it
around on some conventions. It is pretty warm (paper is a good isolation).

Who knows of moer wearable Origami?

Maarten van Gelder, Rekencentrum RuG, RijksUniversiteit Groningen, Holland





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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 08:59:48 -0400
From: kkinney@med.unc.edu (Kevin Kinney)
Subject: Re: Pinky & The Brain

> Did anyone else catch "Pinky and the Brain" (on the Warner-Brothers
> channel) last Sunday evening?  Brain teaches Pinky how to fold a
> flapping bird out a piece of paper, and then for the rest of the

Oh, Sure! The first episode I missed (too many other things to tape that
night, and I figured it was a re-run anyway) and it turns out to be that!
I'll watch for it Saturday.

Kevin (Are you pondering what I'm pondering) Kinney





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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 11:37:57 -0400
From: casida@ere.umontreal.ca (Casida Mark)
Subject: grammer question

Hi,

Here's just a quick question for those of you who know Japanese:

     What is the correct plural of "origami"?
     (Or is "origami" always singular?)

.. Mark
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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 11:45:00 -0400
From: dzimm@nando.NET (David Zimmerman)
Subject: Re: Origami for seeming 'un-WOW-ables' (fwd)

Fred Curtis wrote ...
>
> > You could try the tesselations and recursions of Messrs Hull, Palmer,
> > and Shafer.
>
> I assume you mean Tom Hull, but I don't know the others and I didn't
> know Tom had done tesselations.  Any chance of references?
>

Tom, can you help this guy out? I read your stuff in Imigiro looking
over Courtney's shoulder. I have no idea where Mr Palmer's stuff has
been published, again I look over Courtney's shoulder at stuff she got
from you and he. Jermey Schaffer's name I've only seen referenced by
Chris Palmer.

--
David P Zimmerman             dzimm@nando.net
916 Riderwood Ct               919 557 7692
WillowSpring NC 27592           D-17293

IBM 370 Architecture: putting the "backward" in "backward compatible."





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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 17:12:24 -0400
From: Nick Robinson <nick@homelink.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Origami for seeming 'un-WOW-ables'

As an engineer, I'd show him Brills amazing "nut & bolt" - a two-piece(!) fully
functioning design. Quite wonderful.

Nick Robinson





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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 21:30:52 -0400
From: star@redshift.COM (Star Reierson)
Subject: Recycled money

Color-Ad, a printer here in Monterey, CA had an open house last night.  One
of the things they gave the people attending is samples of paper made from
recycled money.  The band on the paper says "old money - Crane's Old Money -
mint - 24lb writing" and "old money - Crane's Old Money - greenback - 80 lb".

Will let you know how it folds.  Wonder if it will slip through my fingers
like it seemed to the first time around!
                       star@redshift.com





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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 23:06:46 -0400
From: DBSH47B@prodigy.com (MRS. JANET J HAMILTON)
Subject: Re: Cutting up gift wrap and other large sheets of paper....

-- [ From: Janet Hamilton * EMC.Ver #2.10P ] --

> Has any one developed a great methodical method for cutting up gift
wrap
> and other large sheets of paper into standard squares? Should I just
get
> out my rulers and T-squares?

Pat,

I am interested in methods for cutting large sheets also.  I had some
luck last time around by taking the roll of wrapping paper, measuring
6" up two sides (I wanted 6" squares), then fan-folding the paper.  I
used a sharp razor edged letter opener to slice the folds, then a paper
cutter to cut the strips into squares.  This was not foolproof - a slip
with the razor would occasionally leave pieces that I had to trim
individually.  I kept thinking that there had to be a better way...

Janet Hamilton





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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 23:08:03 -0400
From: Tim Kennedy <TKENNEDY@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Baby Shoes

Better you should give the Baby Shoes on a string to the "mohel" for to answer
that old megillah about "so if you were a mohel what would you put in your
shop window?"    0:^/





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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 22:14:07 -0400
From: parkmaam@gol.COM (M. Schleicher P. Saalbach)
Subject: Re: Wearable Origami (was Origami records (OR) or not?)

Don't know about 'origami' garments per se, but I know of a story I came
across in my textile research that there are garments made of paper --
today's fashion designer, Issey Miyake, has made garments from 'kamiko' paper.

Others are/have been made out of 'shifu.'  At one point in Japan's history,
to assure getting messages through enemy territory, people would write their
messages on paper, cut it into thin strips that would then be woven into
cloth.  Once arriving at the place the message needed to be delivered, the
cloth would be unwoven and the pieces would be reassembled to read the final
message.

I'm sorry, however, that I can't remember my source for this story.

Pamela
parkmaam@gol.com

>What do you think of wearable Origami? Like a waistcoat and hat assembled
>from units? The waistcoat is made of 814 units and lifesize; I showed it
>around on some conventions. It is pretty warm (paper is a good isolation).
>
>Who knows of moer wearable Origami?
>
>
>Maarten van Gelder, Rekencentrum RuG, RijksUniversiteit Groningen, Holland
>
>
Pamela Saalbach
parkmaam@gol.com

                            "If all the world were paper,
                               And all the sea were ink,
                        And all the trees were bread and cheese,
                             What should we do for drink?"

            (from a 1910 edition of "The Most Popular Mother Goose Songs")





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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 20:57:44 -0400
From: Sheldon Ackerman <ackerman@dorsai.dorsai.org>
Subject: Re: (Fwd) Baby Shoes (fwd)[Dkj[D[D[D

 >
 >
 > On a personal note...
 > My wife & I had our third son last week, his circumcision ("bris") was this
 > morning.
 > Yaacov Metzger
 >
 Mazel Tov on bringing a potential folder into the fold :-)

--
Sheldon Ackerman.......http://www.dorsai.org/~ackerman/
ackerman@dorsai.dorsai.org
sheldon.ackerman@nycps.nycenet.edu





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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 20:29:53 -0400
From: marckrsh@pipeline.COM (Marc Kirschenbaum)
Subject: Re: grammer question

On Nov 16, 1995 11:37:57, 'casida@ere.umontreal.ca (Casida Mark)' wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Here's just a quick question for those of you who know Japanese:
>
>What is the correct plural of "origami"?
>(Or is "origami" always singular?)

In terms of the English usage of the word *origami,* I have never seen the
need to pluralise it. Origami is a type of art form, and it's product seems
to be refered to as being called an *origami model.* I would imagine that
the plural of that would be *origami models.* I suppose that the with other
art forms, the product has an obvious link to the name of the art form. A
painter will produce a painting, a musician music, but we do not seem to
have a definitive name for what an origami artist produces. For that
matter, we do not even have a definitive term for *origami artist* (I
prefer the word *origamist* incidently. I guess that we should only worry
about pluralizing something until we can decide upon hat we want to
pluralize.

Marc





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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 14:19:27 -0400
From: "Shi-Yew Chen (a.k.a. Sy)" <sychen@ENH.NIST.GOV>
Subject: Re: grammer question

At 11:42 AM 11/16/95 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Here's just a quick question for those of you who know Japanese:
>
>     What is the correct plural of "origami"?
>     (Or is "origami" always singular?)
>
>.. Mark
>--

>From my knowledge of Japanese there is no plural form of any noun. Unless
you treat this word as an "English" word?

---------------------------------------------------
Sy Chen <sychen@enh.nist.gov>
Origami Page - http://www.iia.org/~chens/pprfld.htm





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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 08:52:25 -0400
From: Yusri Johan <gs01yyj@panther.Gsu.EDU>
Subject: Re: Cutting up gift wrap and other large sheets of paper....

Pat Slider asked:

> Has any one developed a great methodical method for cutting up gift wrap
> and other large sheets of paper into standard squares? Should I just get
> out my rulers and T-squares?
>
        For a struggling students like myself, I have tried many ways to
cut larger sheets into squares.  One particular method that I like is to
use the 45/90 degree triangle.  So far this is the most accurate method
that works for me.  All you need to do is to find the straight side of
the paper or draw a straight line somewhere on your paper to indicate how
big of a square that you want. Place the triangle on the straight
line/side, you can use the triangle to draw/mark the diagonal of the
square or draw two more lines that are perpendicular to the line/side on the
edges of that line/side. Then connect the two lines that you just made to
get your square.

Later,
--
Yusri Johan (gs01yyj@panther.gsu.edu)
Georgia State University
http://www2.gsu.edu/~gs01yyj/
Origami Page: http://www2.gsu.edu/~gs01yyj/origami/origami.html





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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 00:28:33 -0400
From: Bren Riesinger <fascfold@fascinating-folds.COM>
Subject: Re: Cutting up gift wrap and other large sheets of paper....

At 11:07 PM 11/16/95 -0400, you wrote:
>-- [ From: Janet Hamilton * EMC.Ver #2.10P ] --
>
>> Has any one developed a great methodical method for cutting up gift
>wrap and other large sheets of paper into standard squares? Should I just
>get out my rulers and T-squares? Pat
>
>I am interested in methods for cutting large sheets also.  I had some
>luck last time around by taking the roll of wrapping paper, measuring
>6" up two sides (I wanted 6" squares), then fan-folding the paper.  I
>used a sharp razor edged letter opener to slice the folds, then a paper
>cutter to cut the strips into squares.  This was not foolproof - a slip
>with the razor would occasionally leave pieces that I had to trim
>individually.  I kept thinking that there had to be a better way...
>
>Janet Hamilton
>
Although I would love to tell you about all the large papers I have - here's
a great way to cut those large sheets - relatively inexpensive, too!  I use
a plastic mat that is available at any large fabric store and a rotary
cutter (about $8) and a large plastic "ruler" (sort-of) that is available
with the mat.  The mat's come in several sizes - mine is 30" x 36" - and are
ruled off already (printed right on the mat).  The "ruler" that is designed
to be used with this has a lip on one end that when held against the mat
assures that the edge is "square" to the mat - and additionally this "ruler"
has guidelines printed on it as well and it is clear so you can see right
through to the mat and make sure all the lines "line" up.  The rotary cutter
works much better than a razor blade (although the blade would be ok)
because is actually rolls over the paper instead of pulling over the paper.
Now that you're ready for those large sheets of paper, I'll also tell you
that I have a LOT of block-printed washi paper in large sheets (approx 26" x
38").  Hope the cutting method helps.
Bren Riesinger.
p.s. I'm testing a new email account - will be changing over soon.





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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 17:19:39 -0400
From: sawtelle@ims.mariposa.ca.us (Pat Slider)
Subject: Cutting up gift wrap and other large sheets of paper....

Greetings,

Has any one developed a great methodical method for cutting up gift wrap
and other large sheets of paper into standard squares? Should I just get
out my rulers and T-squares?

A novice,

pat slider.





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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 17:24:11 -0400
From: "Londono, Juancarlos (3421)" <J.LONDONO@CGNET.COM>
Subject: RE: My first Origami Exhibition

*********----------
From: origami-l
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: My first Origami Exhibition
Date: Thursday, November 16, 1995 4:44PM

<<File Attachment: STEGO.GIF>>

Dear origami friends:

I just finished an origami exhibit where I work and I'd like to share my
experience with you, especially with anyone who's planning their first
exhibit.
***********

Sorry

I forget to include my name under the message about my first origami
exhibition

Juancarlos
j.londono@cgnet.com





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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 21:02:15 -0400
From: Kevin Thorne <C598033@MIZZOU1.missouri.EDU>
Subject: Creative Origami

     On the cover of Kasahara's book Creative Orgami is the Mask of Pan,
a model covered in the book.  It is not,however, made from traditional
origami paper.  The model has a very coarse appearance with the paper
apparently thicker than average.
     What I am wondering is if anyone knows what kind of paper this is?
The paper gives the mask a very appealing look with its rough appearance
and I would very much like to know what it is.
     If you do know what this paper is, or have Creative Origami and can
dig it out to take a closer look at this model please do so.  I think this
paper could be used with several other models to enhance their appearance.

                                  Kevin





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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 13:29:26 -0400
From: Jennifer Andre <JAndre@cfipro.COM>
Subject: Re: grammer question

     (I'm new at this, so I hope you get this...)

     In Japanese, there is no "plural" -- the number of objects in question
     is expressed by using a specific number, which is accompanied by a
     "counter" which emphasizes exactly what it is we're counting.  This
     counter thing is really, really complicated, and I'm sure it was
     invented by someone who has stock in an analgesics for foreigners who
     are trying to learn Japanese.

     Thus, the plural of "origami" is "origami."

     Did anyone receive this message??  Did I bother everyone with it?  If
     I did, gomen-nasai!

     Love,
     New Kid

______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
Subject: grammer question
Author:  origami-l@nstn.ca at Internet
Date:    11/16/95 7:46 AM

Hi,

Here's just a quick question for those of you who know Japanese:

     What is the correct plural of "origami"?
     (Or is "origami" always singular?)

. Mark
--
*-------------------------------------------------------*
|          Mark E. Casida                               |
|          e-mail: casida@chimcn.umontreal.ca           |





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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 14:17:23 -0400
From: JRMetzger@aol.COM
Subject: Baby Shoes

On a personal note...
My wife & I had our third son last week, his circumcision ("bris") was this
morning. It was a beautiful occasion (and why am I telling you all this?).
For centerpieces I made 14 pair of origami baby shoes (from Essential Origami
by the Biddles) out of foil paper and silver gift wrap cord. And I put mylar
balloons with plastic teddy-bear weights stuck into each shoe. They really
came out nice, and everyone commented on the shoes. (My friend who owns a
children's shoe store took a pair to hang on his wall!).
Just one note: instead of using a square and cupboard folding it as shown in
the book, I used rectangles (I <gulp> cut each square in half). Not only does
this cut the amount of paper needed in half, but it also leaves a white
collar, a nice effect I think.
Hopefully Leo will grow up to enjoy folding like his older brothers - our 5
1/2 year-old is an accomplished folder (he loves making animals) and our
four-year-old makes a mean inside-out boat.
Hope you don't mind my sharing this happy occasion with you all!
Yaacov Metzger





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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 23:55:09 -0400
From: Valerie Vann <75070.304@compuserve.COM>
Subject: Re: Pop Culture Watch (and talkin' turkey)

<<paper fly cages>>

I wonder if these aren't an early version of something I've
seen around lately as an "organic" solution to the problem
of grain moths (you know, creepy crawlies in your bread flour
that turn into little bugs flying around the house...)

It's a sort of triangular paper "tube" (in one form) with
something sticky coated on the inside (syrup? honey?).
Like fly paper.
The moths like to crawl into places like that and they get
stuck. And the dead bugs aren't as conspicuous as with fly
paper strips. I.e., nicer looking "sitting on the mantel".

Grain moths are a problem for pet bird owners too, since the
moths love bird food, and parrot-type birds tend to throw
their food around (they're a lot like 2-4 yr olds...)
The organic bug traps are attractive to bird keepers since
birds are highly sensitive to most chemicals, pesticides, etc.
But an unexpected problem is that smaller parrots, budgies, etc
also like to crawl into places, and some have been severely
injured becasue their feathers got stuck in the bug trap!
(Recommended solution: put the bug trap in a small wire cage :-)

Anyway, I'd bet the Victorian gizmo was something like that.
--valerie
