




Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 12:05:36 -0400 (AST)
From: Kenneth Lehner <lehner@lzmsmail.woodbridgenj.ncr.com>
Subject: Re:  "origami light shades" in Martha Stewart Living

>I saw the Martha Stewart article about the water bomb light shades too and
>also felt they might be combustible.  And how the heck did she get them
over
>a light bulb unless you cut the hole bigger.

Maybe she folded the water bomb around the light bulb?  :-)

Ken "isn't that how they do that ship in the bottle thing?" Lehner





Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 13:31:15 -0400 (AST)
From: Mike & Janet Hamilton <Mikeinnj@concentric.net>
Subject: Origami Sighting

In the Nov/Dec 1997 Issue of Family Education Today is a short article
called "Let's Go Site-Seeing!  Great web stops for kids".  Listed in the
article are Joseph Wu's Origami Page, and a page on paper making (
http://www.nbn.com/youcan/paper/paper.html ).

Janet Hamilton

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Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 14:06:57 -0400 (AST)
From: Nick Robinson <nick@cheesypeas.demon.co.uk>
Subject: cut'n'paste

Daddy-o D'gou <dwp@transarc.com> sez

>Actually, the more I think about it, what is the point in having
>instructions such as "repeat steps 35-105 on the other 19 remaining
>flaps" when the diagrammer can just cut'n'paste

The point is that ori publishers are quite rigid about how many designs
they expect per book & doubling the number of steps halves the number of
designs (I think!). If you prepare diagrams privately the number of
photocopies necessary has some influence. As ever, it's a question of
balance.

all the best,

Nick Robinson

email           nick@cheesypeas.demon.co.uk
homepage        http://www.cheesypeas.demon.co.uk - all new look!
BOS homepage    http://www.rpmrecords.co.uk/bos/
RPM homepage    http://www.rpmrecords.co.uk - now with RealAudio clips!





Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 16:44:54 -0400 (AST)
From: Brett Askinazi <brett@hagerhinge.com>
Subject: RE: Re: Mythical Beings (was Prehistoric Animals)

I successfully folded Shiva from the book, it's very nice.

Difficult to get it to stand though ;)  Mine came out a little chest heavy.

Do you suggest wetfolding on this model Robert ?

B R E T T

-----Original Message-----
From:   Rjlang@aol.com [SMTP:Rjlang@aol.com]
Sent:   Tuesday, November 25, 1997 2:38 AM
To:     Multiple recipients of list
Subject:        Re:  Re: Mythical Beings (was Prehistoric Animals)

I should point out that at least some of the photos in the book (Mythical
Beasts) are NOT 'expert results', and in the case of the 'Shiva' model, the
photo in the book is only vaguely representative of what this model looks
like when folded properly.

Robert J. Lang
rjlang@aol.com





Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 18:05:28 -0400 (AST)
From: Penny Groom <penny@sector.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Japanese subscribers can you help?

Apologies for sending the same message twice, it was only after I had
sent it that it occured to me that people who could help might ignore it
with it's original subject line.

Please e-mail me if you can assist Paul

Thanks

Penny Groom
-----------------------------------------------

Hello Everybody,

First of all, thanks to Penny for passing this note on to Origami-l.

I was recently invited by Tony O'Hare to join him teaching children from
the Bristol area of UK about origami, and perhaps some of the history
connected to our favourite subject. So when I had an idea about what I
could do, Penny Groom suggested sending a letter to origami-l in the
hope that someone out there in the world of origami could help.

The idea is this.  Firstly, tell the story behind the statue in
Hiroshima Park
of the little girl holding a paper crane, (I'm very sorry, but I've
momentarily
forgotten her name) then mention that children all over the world send
cranes to be hung on the statue, and teach each group of children how
to fold the crane.

Wouldn't it be nice if the children could see their cranes hanging on or
near the statue!, therefore,  (and here's the favour bit) does anybody
know how I could send the cranes to the park, and anybody to who I
could send a camera, so that a picture could be taken to send back to
the
children? (Might be cheaper than sending them all to Japan!)

Many thanks for reading this long letter, and I look forward to hearing
any
responses, including ideas on what to teach!.

With very best wishes,

Paul.

------------------------------------------
Penny Groom                Membership Secretary
                           British Origami Society
penny@sector.demon.co.uk
Stairwell's homepage.
http://www.sector.demon.co.uk/index.htm
BOS homepage    http://www.rpmrecords.co.uk/bos/





Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 23:38:30 -0400 (AST)
From: "Chamberlain, Clare" <Clare.Chamberlain@health.wa.gov.au>
Subject: 923

got up to item 5 and there was no more................!

While I'm here, regarding the use of shortcut phrases in models for
skilled folders, having learnt most of my origami in Japan, I find many
'English' terms unintelligible, and feel that a few additional diagrams
make origami the international language it should be!  I'll get off my
zabuton now!





Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 00:19:07 -0400 (AST)
From: Unafolder@aol.com
Subject: Unafolder in New York

Beware all!

The Unafolder will be making a covert appearance in New York City for one day
only this Saturday.  New Yorkers please e-mail the Unafolder to advise on
good places to lurk and generally appear shifty.

Plus, the Lady Unafolders want to know where a carriage ride might be
obtained.  Even the mighty unafolder must appease the female of the species
whilst committing acts of mayhem.

Una





Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 01:32:32 -0400 (AST)
From: Valerie Vann <valerie_vann@compuserve.com>
Subject: Diagramming with AutoCAd

I and many other drafting technicians consider AutoCAD the
program we most love to hate, use it only because we're
forced to (like Windows, it's become the "standard" for
many government agencies and engineering offices).

However, its all what you're used to; I've used Generic
Cadd for years (used to be Autodesk's mid-price cadd program
but it was so popular they killed it; the programmers went
out and formed Numera Visual Cadd which now belongs to Corel).

Several years ago a GenCadd user wrote a program that allowed
you to trace on top of a raster (eg scanned image) using
basic GenCadd commands, and producing a GenCadd file for
editing and completion. It was very handy.

However, the more recent versions (12? 13,14 for sure) of
AutoCAD enable you to do the same thing, plus you can resize
the scanned image background. They do rather bury the directions
in the documentation, and it doesn't always work as expected,
but once you get the hang of it with your scanner or image
source, it works very well. Then you can ditch the scanned
image "background" and keep the line drawing. Works with
PCX, TIFF and (I think BMP) image types. Helpful if you're
not a good 3D artist; you can scan a photo and draw over it.
I've not actually used it for that (I've done maps and photos
for other purposes), but one of our draftsmen has used it
that way. (When I'm diagramming, I just draw.)

Valerie Vann





Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 09:25:58 -0400 (AST)
From: DonnaJowal@aol.com
Subject: Re: First Colombian Origami Convention

Sorry everyone. My note yesterday to Jose Tomas Buitrago was meant to be sent
privately.

Donna Walcavage





Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 13:02:38 -0400 (AST)
From: Robby/Laura/Lisa <morassi@zen.it>
Subject: Re: Creating the Perfect Pentagon - (can it be true?)

Jeff,
At 06.34 28/11/1997 -0400, you wrote:
>
>I would be greatly interested in hearing from others that have found ways
>to cut perfect pentagonal paper.

Some years ago I devised and distributed what I call a "cutting guide".
Basically, it's a sheet of graph paper (millimeters) ready to be fixed with
strips of double-adhesive tape on the surface of a guillotine or a rotary
cutter. In addition to allowing precise measuring of cutting size, it has
two sets of guide-lines for specific purposes. One is for cutting exact
equilateral triangles, pentagons, hexagons, heptagons and octagons; the
other set of lines is for instant reduction of any sheet of paper to the
following proportions: 1/2, 1/3, 1/sqrt(2) (UNI or silver rectangle), 3/7
(dollar). I've put a GIF at this URL to show how the thing works:

ftp://ftp.chim1.unifi.it/pub/uploads/rmtemp/guide.gif

A number of these cutting guides are still available for those interested
(contact me).

Roberto
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Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 18:06:50 -0400 (AST)
From: DLister891@aol.com
Subject: The Pacific Coast Origami Conference.

I always intended to write a report on PCOC, 1997, but I remained in America
until a week after the Conference and since then have been too busy to set
pen to paper (or whatever may be the computer equivalent). But so far as I
can see, nobody else has sent a report of this important conference to
Origami-L, so here is my contribution. As usual, it is longer than I
intended, but many people have told me that they actually like longer
contributions.

THE FIRST PACIFIC COAST ORIGAMI CONFERENCE.11th,12th November 1997.

I have had a long association with paperfolders on the West Coast of USA. In
the 1960s and 1970s I corresponded with John Nordquist, Francis McNaul and
John Andreas, and I was a member of the West Coast Origami Guild in its early
days until it suffered a period of eclipse and my membership lapsed. Two or
three years ago, however, I joined the Bay Area Rapid Folders in a desperate
attempt to keep up with the latest developments of technical paperfolding in
the United States, just as I joined Origami Tanteidan in an even more frantic
effort to keep acquainted with  the latest discoveries in origami technique
over there. I have made many friends on the West Coast, so that when rumours
began to seep through about a proposed convention in California I determined,
if I possibly could, to attend it. I seemed to wait a long time, but
eventually V'Ann Cornelius told me that plans had been concluded for a
convention to take place in San Francisco in October of this year. By a
stroke of good fortune, I found that it would be possible to combine it with
a visit to Oregon which I had been asked to make. When the date was later
changed to November, my plans seemed to go awry, but a bit of re-planning and
 a visit to my helpful travel agent produced a comprehensive itinerary at
very reasonable cost. So the die was cast which brought me to my first stop
on the West Coast, at Bend in Oregon on 2nd November.

Flying in to San Francisco International from Portland in Oregon, I was soon
in a taxi on my way to the Best Western Miyako Inn through the more
forbidding parts of San Francisco. I had been told that it was a walkable
city, but first impressions didn't seem to confirm this as we travelled miles
through dark areas that reminded me of the remaining  parts of Victorian
London and then through wider and more open roads built strictly on the grid
plan which was so popular in the 19th Century.

I unpacked and settled in my room and then went out to find food. The
Japanese Centre had previously been only a vague expression, but I now found
it to be a well ordered area of modern shopping malls filled with Japanese
shops, galleries and restaurants. Many of the shops had beautiful window
displays, wonderfully refined in the way of which only the Japanese are
capable. One shop, in particular, had a window display of the most exquisite
Ikebana. Turning to more mundane matters, I soon reacquainted myself with
Japanese food in a very friendly family-run restaurant that was obviously
very popular. In fact, I ate more Japanese food than any other in San
Francisco. When eventually I returned to my room, it was  to find welcoming
messages waiting for me from Vicky Mihara Avery and Jan Polish. I joined them
and also V'Ann Cornelius the next morning for breakfast at a snack bar inside
the Japanese Center (watching the Sumo wrestlers on a large video screen
nearly) and so for me the Pacific Coast Origami Conference had begun! Jan
Polish had come down from New York a few days earlier and besides forming the
liaison with Origami USA in New York she contributed her long experience of
New York Conventions to the smooth running of PCOC.

I spent Thursday visiting the Far Eastern Museum in Golden Gate Park and
getting to know how to use the city's trolley buses. (I didn't realise that
such a form of transport still existed.) On returning to the Miyako Inn, I
bumped into Marcia Mau and her husband Frank. They are world travellers and I
had met them in September  at the BOS Convention in York. In her travels,
Marcia picks up all sorts of new ideas and she always has news of some new or
unexpected development in paperfolding

That evening proceedings opened with an unexpected and very exciting event.
The organisers and a few other very privileged people were invited to dinner
at the residence of the Japanese Consul General on Pacific Heights. I don't
think that any of us were expecting such a grand occasion, with a reception
in what was, by any standards, a grand mansion. We were each asked to fold
and take with us a piece of origami for the Consul General's charming wife.
When they were set out on a table, we found that we had brought together a
very presentable exhibition of origami. As we chatted over our drinks, I
found an affinity with the Consul General, because he was at the same college
as my son, Richard at Cambridge. We were then called to an exquisite Japanese
buffet supper with wines and sake in a room overlooking the Golden Gate
Bridge. Perhaps because I was a visitor from abroad, I was seated next to the
Consul General's wife and was able to explain to her how the modern origami
movement had developed not only in its own right, but also as great vehicle
for international friendship. How it happened, I'm not quire sure, but the
initial formality of the evening melted and it evolved into a demonstration
by Jeremy Shafer of one of his incomparable displays of juggling. This set
the seal on a very happy evening to which I shall always remember and feel
privileged to have been invited.

The next day, Friday, I caught the trolley bus into downtown San Franciso and
just walked. Before long I had discovered in a shop, a copy of the computer
game "Riven" only a few days after I had first seen an advertisement
indicating that it had at last been issued to the public.  The centre of San
Francisco round Union Square, with its palm trees is quite compact, but I
soon found that I had wandered onwards,  through a colourful arch into in
China Town, a conglomeration of many blocks of Chinese shops, restaurants and
other businesses: all untidy and nothing like the elegance of the Japan
Center. Between the blocks, I caught glimpses of tall, futuristic skyscrapers
and of quaint, antique cable cars that struggle up the unbelievably steep
hills of San Francisco. They told me there were seven hills, but every city
worth its salt is built, like Rome on seven hills. In San Francisco they are
more like seven mountains. No wonder they had to invent the cable cars,
because no horse could possibly haul a tramcar up those steep hills. I
struggled under my own steam up Lombard Street, the most twisted street in
the world and set at what seemed to be forty-five degrees. I found it to be
an elegant residential street with bougainvillaea round the windows and the
cars gingerly tacking downhill between the colourful flower beds. I suspect
that the residents rued the fact that they had become a tourist attraction.
Then down the long and only slightly less steep hill to the Bay for a for at
look at Fisherman's Wharf, a working seaport transformed into a busy street
of bazaars, bars and restaurants for tourists. There were too many people at
the cable car stop, for me to wait, so I took the first bus that came along
and by a stroke of luck, found myself deposited not far from the bus stop for
the Miyako Inn. I arrived back in time for the start of PCOC that evening.

The focal point of the Conference was the Japanese Community Cultural Center
next door but one to the Miyako Inn, where many of the people attending PCOC
were staying. The Cultural Center had a good collection of rooms and also a
very large gymnasium which was ideal for general meeting purposes. When I
first visited it several young Japanese children were being taught the
rudiments of Japanese drumming. Next day I was fortunate enough to bcome
across a display of drumming in the Japanese Center. At first the sound was
monotonous, but gradually took over and became hypnotic until it induced a
feeling of intoxication.

PCOC was organised very much on the lines of a New York Convention (the name
"conference" was chosen to  give it a separate identity). I soon found myself
lined up for registration, waiting to collect a large bag of folders, origami
paper, a large cardboard box for my "creations" and, of course, my name
badge. I found myself just behind Florence Temko and was soon busy taking to
her. It was the first of countless meetings with other folders, many of them
old friends, There were also many Origami-L friends whom I was meeting in
person for the first time.  I couldn't possible mention them all here, but I
was particularly pleased to meet Pat Slider and her husband and three
children from Yosemite. I have conducted a long E-mail correspondence with
her about origami books, new and old. I also met Valerie Vann for the first
time and Charles Knuffke, (much taller than I expected) who performed all the
Internet wizardry for PCOC.

Like the New York Conventions, PCOC was organised on the basis of many
simultaneous classes throughout the day. The organisation was faultless, but
it did mean that you could attend only one eighth of the classes! So we were
faced with a magnificent display of sample models to induce us visit their
classes, together with priority numbers for use in the allocation procedure
the next morning and, of course, we were faced with some agonising decisions.

Friday night was mainly for meeting people. PCOC began in earnest on Saturday
Morning with the familiar line-up to see which of our choices we would get.
With a comparatively low number, I received all my first choices. Then it was
time to find the classrooms. Some were held in the four corners of the
gymnasium and there were other meeting rooms conveniently  at the Japanese
CommunityCultural Center. There were another two meeting rooms in the Miyako
Inn and the use of the hall of the Presbyterian Church a block away up Sutter
Street. When I first went there for a class, it seemed all closed up, with no
entry, but it turned out that someone had let the door shut on the latch.  My
first class there was with Brian Cox from Winnipeg, whom I had met at
Wurtzburg in Germany only last June, where he had hung a mobile of 1001
origami cranes and had also given a demonstration of cat's cradle. He was
teaching string games again. There is a close affinity with paperfolding.
Just as the origami model can be unfolded and revert to a square, so can the
string figure be sipped of the fingers and revert to a simple loop of string.
Many paperfolders, such as Philip Noble have been cat's cradlers as well, and
Mark Sheman, of Pasadena, who organises the International String Figures
Association is also a paperfolder.

Kinokinuya, the chain of Japanese bookshops has a large branch in the Japan
Center and it was a powerful magnet for paperfolders, especially during the
lunch hour. They had a display of origami in their shop window and  in
anticipation of the Conference had had stocked their shelves with a very a
large and varied collection of origami books, both in English and Japanese.
We were allowed a discount on origami books if we displayed our conference
badges. In fact, it was sometimes difficult to get near the origami books
because of the crowds. I got round the problem of carrying books back to
England by asking them to pack my purchases in a box. I then mailed them back
home at the post office a few blocks away.

Just across Sutter Street from the Miyako Inn was "The Paper Tree", a paper
and stationery shop belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Mihara, the mother and father
of Vicky and Linda. When I introduced myself, they were all most friendly and
they were very helpful to me on several occasions. Although they have changed
their premises twice over the years, the Mihara family has had a shop in this
area since soon after the last war, when Grandfather Mihara published two
 little books  of Origami, illustrated with actual folded figures, probably
the first books in English to bear  the title "Origami".

The general rule was that we arranged our own meals, and I was naturally
attracted by the Japanese Restaurants in the Japanese Center across the road.
I particularly liked one sushi bar where the dishes passed in front of the
diners on little wooden ships floating in miniature  river. But on Saturday
night the Conference Dinner took place in the dining hall of the Japanese
Community Cultural Centre. Appropriately this was a Japanese boxed meal
(either with or without sushi)  to be eaten with chopsticks.

The classes continued on Sunday. Jeremy Shafer taught at all the sessions, so
I don't think he ever attended a lesson given by anyone else. I attended one
of his lively sessions and should have liked to have attended more, but
choices had to be made. Then there were new  people to meet. I was
particularly pleased to meet Jeremy Evnine, son of Rosaly Evnine and grandson
of Lillian Oppenheimer. I had last seen him when he was a young teenager at
Rosaly's flat in west London at one of the early meetings of the old Origami
Portfolio Society. Now he is a PhD.  and working in the United States. I also
met Robert Lang and his wife for a few minutes outside in the street. The
first time I met him was in London in 1987, when he was studying at Cambridge
and came to South London to attend the twentieth anniversary meeting of the
BOS. That was when I saw his incredible folded insects for the first time. I
have followed the developments in his paperfolding and especially his
computer techniques ever since.

On Sunday, there was another lesson in string figures, this time given by
Agnes Tomorrow.             Shall we say our efforts to reproduce the string
figures were a little confused? But it all reinforced the lessons Brian Cox
had given us on Saturday and everyone found this diversion from paperfolding
most enjoyable. Perhaps more conventions will have cat's cradle sessions.

A difference from the New York conventions was that there was no Origami
Source selling books. It would obviously have been impossible to send even a
selection of books from New York to San Francisco. The Kinokinuya bookshop
helped to make up for this. However, one thing that was similar to New York
was the Exhibition of Origami in the basement. I have seen many exhibitions
of paperfolding, but this was  been one of the finest. It was not so very
large, but all the work was exquisite and beautifully displayed. The exhibits
ranged over the whole gamut of folding, from classic cranes to modular
folding and from dinosaurs to dollar bill folding. What attracted me most was
the modular work in the style of the Chinese asylum seekers who were detained
after they landed on Long Island from the ship "Golden Venture". There were
two graceful swans, a luscious pineapple and a wonderful model of a tall
ship. Everything was made from small wedges of folded paper which (in theory)
fitted together without glue. The technique, which appears to have been based
on a traditional Chinese folk art, but developed much further by the asylum
seekers has not been widely described in paperfolding literature.  I hope
that some way may be found to  make it widely available and that there will
be illustrated articles in some of the origami magazines.

On Sunday night we were promised a an entertainment by member of the
Conference and we all assembled expectantly in the gymnasium. The talents of
origamists are extremely varied and we were treated to a whole succession of
acts, not least, the singing of Laura Kruskal's International Origami Anthem
entertainment of magic and string games. Then It was Jeremy Shafer's turn and
he excelled himself. He juggled (or tried to juggle - Jeremy succeeds because
he is prepared to take risks) with up to nine balls. He juggled in the dark
with illuminated balls  and displayed his enormous versatility. Then when we
thought the display was over, he led us outside the building to the road and
gave us a further display of juggling with burning torches, followed by his
setting fire to the wheel of his monocycle and riding it while juggling the
torches up and down Sutter Street. I can't think what would have happened I a
police car had happened to pass! The least of the charges would have been
obstruction of the highway. I'm not at all sure that Jeremy was wholly in
charge of the situation, but if was a magnificent conclusion to the
Conference.

Back in the gymnasium we held the closing session, with well-deserved thanks
to all who had helped to organise a successful Conference, it is hoped, the
first of many. There were especial thanks and many of them to V'Ann Cornelius
and Vicky Mihara Avery who were the main organisers. They had put in many
months of hard work to bring about the Conference and they succeeded
admirably. Nothing seemed to ruffle them. They could now rest on their
laurels except that I know that they are already thinking towards the next
PCOC. but many other helpers contributed to the success of the Conference and
deserved and received our hanks

Jeremy didn't quite finish off PCOC. A few of us stayed on for a day or two
and on the following day,  Monday, Vicky's sister Linda arranged a bus trip
for survivors up the Napa Valley. Sadly, she was prevented from coming
herself. The weather turned to a good imitation of damp, drizzly British
weather, but we still enjoyed the visit to a very beautiful part of
California, with vineyards in every direction. Vicky even pointed out to us a
Turkey Vulture and said it was the only bird with a sense of smell. We
visited the Sterling Vineyard and experienced a trip by cable car (the Alpine
sort, not the San Franciscan) up to the winery high up the hillside. The tour
round the winery with its huge stainless steel vats and smaller oak vats and
barrels was fascinating. I couldn't help but admire the beautiful woodwork.
But all was silence - the silence of waiting. Fascinating, too, was the wine
tasting which followed the tour.

After descending by the cable car, and somewhat inebriated, we drove on to a
restaurant for an marvellous meal together, before another wine tasting at
the vineyard of Chandon. This is owned by Moet and Chandon, the French
Champagne firm and they make sparking wines by the traditional process. We
tasted several varieties, just to make sure that the Californian champagnes
were as food as the French ones. Our return after dark took us across the
magnificent, but very crowded Golden Gate Bridge and back to the Mityako Inn.
That evening the stalwart remnant of PCOC gathered together for a last meal
at a Chinese restaurant which had strayed into the Japan Center. A Member of
the restaurant staff gave a demonstration of making noodles by hand. Brian
Cox made a good attempt to copy the technique, but even his skill with string
games didn't make him quite up to the task.

I still had three days in San Francisco. On one of them I tried out the Bart
subway with inspired the name of BARF (The Bay Area Rapid Folders) and used
it to visit Berkeley, where I wandered in the sunshine round the famous
university campus and then went down Telegraph Street, venue of the 1960s
student demonstrations for a meal (Korean this time) and an inspection of the
large bookshops which jostle shoulder-to-shoulder there. The next day I
joined Laura Kruskal (Lillian Oppenheimer's daughter-in-law) in a walk both
ways across the Golden Bridge in beautiful weather (constantly in danger of
being run down by cyclists), followed by a lobster meal on a quayside
restaurant in the midst of Fisherman's Wharf. This time, we enjoyed a cable
car back to the centre of the city. It was like going back a hundred years in
time.

I still had a weekend in San Diego to look forward to, staying with Florence
Temko at her apartment overlooking the Pacific Ocean.  The weather there was
beautiful and warm and the teenagers in their black wetsuits were playing in
the surf like seals. We visited the Mingei Museum of Folk Arts, which house
the origami library that Florence presented to it several years ago and which
had now been given ample space in the new museum buildings. We also attended
a meeting of the San Diego Folders at a library. The next day visited
Acapulco in Mexico, which was another high point of my visit to the West
Coast. I was also impressed by my visit to San Diego Old Town, with its
carefully preserved buildings dating from the days of the Gold Rush and its
collection of small shops devoted to colourful Mexican and South American
crafts.

Now I am back home again and in two days time I shall be flying to Bologna in
Italy for the convention of CDO, which promises to be another outstanding
international meeting with a special emphasis on origami tessellations.
Another country, another city, another convention, But I shall certainly
never forget my visit to PCOC and San Francisco.

David Lister.

Grimsby, England.

DLister891@AOL.com





Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 20:32:13 -0400 (AST)
From: Kim Best <kim.best@m.cc.utah.edu>
Subject: Re: Unafolder in New York

Unafolder@aol.com wrote:

> Plus, the Lady Unafolders want to know where a carriage ride might be
> obtained.  Even the mighty unafolder must appease the female of the species
> whilst committing acts of mayhem.

Holy smokes!  Talk about your scandals!  This is one I know we all want to know
more
about!

Incidently, do you want one carriage big enough to carry them all?  Or several
carriages
running at different times, so they all don't have to know about each other?

--
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420 Chipeta Way #120                * as it is precision crumpling.    *
Salt Lake City, Utah  84108         ************************************





Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 06:48:11 -0400 (AST)
From: Aimee Miura <aimeem@ohana.com>
Subject: Re: origami fiction

>Sending this on but I am not familiar with any of them.

>Arlene Anderson

>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: "Dennis K. Lien" <Dennis.K.Lien-1@tc.umn.edu>
>Subject: Re: Origami fiction

>>Do any of you know of any adult fiction about origami (Japanese paper
>>folding)?
>>I am presenting an origami program, and I would like to
>>include some fiction
>>on my bibliography.

>   TITLE: Celebrity vampires /
>           <snip>   Undead origami / Norman Partridge --

>I don't know any of the above, so am not sure if they really concern
>origami or if the titles are merely metaphoric.

Vicki,

_Celebrity Vampires_ is an anthology of "What if?"-type short stories, and
"Undead Origami" is a story about Howard Hughes as a vampire.

It is not ABOUT origami, but if I remember correctly, HH folds money into
paper planes and throws them at an employee, then later folds himself up..

I'm not sure this is the sort of thing you're looking for, but it IS
targeted more toward adults than children. If you want more details, let
me know.. I've still got the book around somewhere.

Aimee
----
Aimee Miura <aimeem@ohana.com>





Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 09:07:39 -0400 (AST)
From: Unafolder <Unafolder@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Unafolder in New York

I'll need three carriages, one rickshaw, eleven yards of twine and several
headscarves.  Can you arrange it?

Una, the Mysterious





Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 09:37:04 -0400 (AST)
From: Michael Clark <mdc@ivc.com>
Subject: Favorite Santas?

Since 'tis the season, I thought I'd ask:  What are your favorite Santa
models?  I just folded the two which appear in this year's OUSA Annual
Collection (Peter Budai and Steven Casey), and they're both GREAT!  Mr.
Yoshizawa has one in the BOS convention book from this past Sept, which has
a nice shape, but no color change (Santa just doesn't look right with a RED
beard!).  What others do you folks recommend?

P.S. That's Father Christmas to my friends across the Pond ;-)

Thanks,
<<<<<>>>>><<<<<>>>>><<<<<>>>>><<<<<>>>>><<<<<>>>>><<<<<>>>>>
Michael Clark                <> The boy, ah say, the boy's
IVC,Inc.                     <> about as sharp as a
Apex, North Carolina         <> bowlin' ball!
mdc@ivc.com                  <>           - Foghorn Leghorn
http://www.ivc.com           <>





Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 10:34:09 -0400 (AST)
From: Lisa Hodsdon <Lisa_Hodsdon@hmco.com>
Subject: Re: Unafolder in New York

The Unafolder claims:
>I'll need three carriages, one rickshaw, eleven yards of twine and several
headscarves.
>Can you arrange it?

I assume this means you will be providing for your own paper requirements?





Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 14:50:17 -0400 (AST)
From: Dennis Walker <d_and_m_walker@compuserve.com>
Subject: Favorite Santas?

Hello,

        My favourite has to Fred Rohm's Santa from Robert Harbin's
'Secret's of Origami'. White beard, white trim, HUGE red belly and a sack
with a toy elephant sticking out! What more can you ask for?

                        Dennis Walker





Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 19:28:44 -0400 (AST)
From: ladyada@tiac.net (joyce saler)
Subject: Paper Stash In Eastern MA

Attention  all folders in Eastern Massachusetts.
There is a new "Buck A Book" store that has opened in Marlboro, MA-Route 20
West-in a mall that houses the new Cinema Complex.
Stocked in this store are discontinued rolls of wrapping paper,  faded,
funky, and garish, but all cheap and worth picking over. The cost of each
roll regardless of length is a dollar.  In addition to some very nice thin
coated and printed tissure papers , there are rolls of duo-colored
sparkling mylar as well as what they call 'foils'.  I also saw a printed
cellaphane that is of a heavier weight than is usually found and maybe
foldable.
It's worth a visit.

Joyce Saler





Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 20:53:01 -0400 (AST)
From: andalar <andalar@aimnet.com>
Subject: San Jose, CA folders group forming

If you live anywhere near San Jose, California and would like to meet on a
regular basis to fold, please send email directly to andalar@aimnet.com --
that's me, Laura Mappin.  We've got interest in forming a group and we're
working on the logistics now.





Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 23:20:43 -0400 (AST)
From: Sy Chen <sychen@erols.com>
Subject: One Piece Flipper diagram

Hi, everyone,

I have successfully adapted Dave Brill's modular flipping toy into one
piece version.  The original was a cardboard toy in packages of Walker's
Crisps (potato chips).  The size of the toy varied w/ the size of the bag
of crisps.  Both Dave Brill and Robin Glynn created 4 piece versions.
Thanks to Marcia Mau for showing me this model, which she learned at BOS
convention in York this year.

For those who can't wait you may find the postscript diagram in
http://www.erols.com/sychen1/Diagram/1PFlip.ps

As for pdf format I will test new GhostScript version to see how it works
before I upload it to web/ftp site.

I would love to upload it to origami ftp site once it is proofread by some
of you. Thank you in advance for testing the diagram.

|------------------------------------------------------\
|  _   Shi-Yew Chen (a.k.a. Sy) <sychen@erols.com>     |\
| |_| Folding http://www.erols.com/sychen1/pprfld.html --\





Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 00:27:59 -0400 (AST)
From: Sy Chen <sychen@erols.com>
Subject: Re: One Piece Flipper diagram

Well done! GhostScript 5.10. I successfully converted my 3 page ps diagram
(172 kb) into pdf format with size of 39 kb only. Old version of
Ghostscript gives me pdf output with size of 274 kb. What an improvement!
Why should I buy Adobe Distiller?

BTW the pdf version of my One Piece Flipper is in
http://www.erols.com/sychen1/Diagram/1PFlip.pdf

I might transfer my ps version into origami ftp site in the future to save
my disk space.

Happy flipping!
|------------------------------------------------------\
|  _   Shi-Yew Chen (a.k.a. Sy) <sychen@erols.com>     |\
| |_| Folding http://www.erols.com/sychen1/pprfld.html --\
|---------------------------------------------------------|

At 11:21 PM 12/4/97 -0400, Sy wrote:
>For those who can't wait you may find the postscript diagram in
>http://www.erols.com/sychen1/Diagram/1PFlip.ps
>
>As for pdf format I will test new GhostScript version to see how it works
>before I upload it to web/ftp site.





Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 09:27:46 -0400 (AST)
From: steve179@ix.netcom.com
Subject: Re: Favorite Santas?

On 12/04/97 09:37:20 you wrote:
>
>Since 'tis the season, I thought I'd ask:  What are your favorite Santa
>models?  I just folded the two which appear in this year's OUSA Annual
>Collection (Peter Budai and Steven Casey), and they're both GREAT!  Mr.
>Yoshizawa has one in the BOS convention book from this past Sept, which has
>a nice shape, but no color change (Santa just doesn't look right with a RED
>beard!).  What others do you folks recommend?
>
>P.S. That's Father Christmas to my friends across the Pond ;-)
>
>Thanks,
><<<<<>>>>><<<<<>>>>><<<<<>>>>><<<<<>>>>><<<<<>>>>><<<<<>>>>>
>Michael Clark                <> The boy, ah say, the boy's
>IVC,Inc.                     <> about as sharp as a
>Apex, North Carolina         <> bowlin' ball!
>mdc@ivc.com                  <>           - Foghorn Leghorn
>http://www.ivc.com           <>
>
>
>

I like the J. Smith 'pureland' Santa ... nice as a decoration for a gift.





Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 13:16:15 -0400 (AST)
From: John Marcolina <jmarcoli@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: The Pacific Coast Origami Conference.

At 06:07 PM 12/3/97 -0400, David Lister wrote:
>
>(a whole lotta stuff about PCOC)

I'd been putting off reporting on my experiences at PCOC util I really had
time to write something meaningful (like everyone else I suppose). Now I
don't have to! David did a real bang-up job as usual - thanks David!

Being my first convention, I don't have anything to compare it to, but I'll
just say that I had a fabulous time. I made a lot of new friends, learned
some new models, and got to see others' work at the display, which was
marvelous.

For me, the highlights of the convention were:

Meeting a lot of origami-l members for the first time, and being able to
put faces to names. I was thinking of naming names, but there were so many
and I don't want to leave anyone out. I hope to see all of you again.

Meeting all the other origami notables not on this list; people like Jan
Polish, Gay Merril Gross, Hermann van Goubergen, Florence Temko (sp?), and
probably others who I am forgetting at the moment.

Watching Jeremy Schaffer set himself on fire and zoom up and down the
street on his unicycle.

Learning new models, like Kawahata's Yoda, Weiss's dollar bill cat, and (in
an impromptu after-dinner lesson by Charles Knuffke) our own Valerie Vann's
outstanding "Rose-Cube" thingy.

Hanging out with all the wonderful people, folding into the night, and
talking about origami!

Kudos to all who helped organize the event; I thought everything went very
smoothly. Obviously a lot of hard work went into planning and executing
what I hope will the first of many west coast origami conventions! Bravo
Vicky!

And once again, thanks to David for his summary which I could never have
written. I enjoyed meeting you too David!

John Marcolina
jmarcoli@cisco.com
San Jose, CA.





Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 15:07:08 -0400 (AST)
From: Nick Robinson <nick@cheesypeas.demon.co.uk>
Subject: BOS supplies resting...

Please note that BOS supplies is out of action for the forseeable
future. Apologies on their behalf, but we have some problems. Please
don't send any orders to Sandy Boyd.

I'll post a follow-up when we have worked out a new course of action!

all the best,

Nick Robinson

email           nick@cheesypeas.demon.co.uk
homepage        http://www.cheesypeas.demon.co.uk - all new look!
BOS homepage    http://www.rpmrecords.co.uk/bos/
RPM homepage    http://www.rpmrecords.co.uk - now with RealAudio clips!





Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 18:31:25 -0400 (AST)
From: "MARGARET M. BARBER" <mbarber@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu>
Subject: problems getting mail from the list

Has anyone else had difficulties getting mail from the origami-l?  I had
not received any  mail for two days and found that somehow I had been
unsubscribed (again %-()  Has anyone else had this difficulty recently? I
hope I'm all straightened out now...(?)
Peg Barber
mbarber@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu





Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 20:11:38 -0400 (AST)
From: Belinda Holbrook <holbrook@netins.net>
Subject: Teaching origami to children

Dear fellow folders,
     I had a wonderful experience today that I wanted to share with you. I
am a school media specialist at an elementary school in Iowa. Here in Iowa
we have a wonderful state-wide network of classrooms that are interactive.
Schools have free access to these classrooms, businesses can also rent
them, I believe. Each classroom has three cameras and a computer that
controls them. One site is the originating site. Other classrooms are then
selected to receive what is coming from the originating site. What makes
this all so wonderful is that the originating site has many options. One
camera can show the instructor, an overhead camera will zoom in and out to
show whatever is on the desk in front of the camera, and one other camera
shows the students at that classroom. The instructor can also watch what
is going on at the other sites (one site at a time) or select a site to
show to all of the other sites. Students in all classrooms have mikes on
the tables in front of them. Pushing on the button allows their voice to
be heard by every classroom.
     Anyway, I was asked to present a story about origami and then
instruct students to make something out of origami. I was not sure how it
would all work out. Whenever I teach students face-to-face, I always end
up helping someone and I couldn't imagine not being able to actually touch
their paper. Also, I had told the person in charge that I would only
consider third grade students and older. Then I heard that some teachers
were bringing second graders. I practiced at my school this week with
second graders and I was worried.
     But it all worked out beautifully and I would jump at the chance to
do it again. There were nine sites all together and I'm guessing I was
teaching at least 250 students! I first read "Tree of Cranes" by Allan
Say. Then I showed how to do a boat. The kids held up their boats at each
site for everyone else to see and they all looked like boats to me. Even
the ones made by second-graders. Then I showed lots of different origami
models that I had made and they were excited about those. I answered some
questions and an hour was up. Some of the classes had to leave then but
the rest of us made a swan since we had another half hour together. I
think a lot of kids were excited about the origami. They wanted me to send
lists of good books and diagrams. It was a fun day.

Belinda Holbrook
Davenport, IA
holbrook@netins.net





Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 21:21:31 -0400 (AST)
From: Jeff Kerwood <jkerwood@usaor.net>
Subject: Re: Teaching origami to children

That is WONDERFUL!  Thanks for telling us about it.

Jeff Kerwood
jkerwood@usaor.net

----------
> From: Belinda Holbrook <holbrook@netins.net>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <origami-l@nstn.ca>
> Subject: Teaching origami to children
> Date: Friday, December 05, 1997 7:12 PM
>
> Dear fellow folders,
>      I had a wonderful experience today ...
> I think a lot of kids were excited about the origami. They wanted me to
send
> lists of good books and diagrams. It was a fun day.
>
> Belinda Holbrook
> Davenport, IA
> holbrook@netins.net





Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 08:16:43 -0400 (AST)
From: rickbissell@ncweb.com
Subject: Re: problems getting mail from the list

At 06:31 PM 12/5/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Has anyone else had difficulties getting mail from the origami-l?  I had
>not received any  mail for two days and found that somehow I had been
>unsubscribed (again %-()  Has anyone else had this difficulty recently? I
>hope I'm all straightened out now...(?)
>Peg Barber
>mbarber@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu
>

Hi Peg, I became unsubscribed several weeks ago too.  Many people on the
list have reported having this happen to them.  I'm not sure why.

        -- Rick





Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 08:21:01 -0400 (AST)
From: Mike & Janet Hamilton <Mikeinnj@concentric.net>
Subject: Re: _Triceratops_ Diagrams

Maarten van Gelder wrote:

> m> You have to wait for Maarten to relocate the files and change the access
> m> right.
>
> Well, they are there. Have a look with FTP in the models/tritops directory.
> Or try via the URL http://www.rug.nl/rugcis/rc/ftp/origami
> and select 'Models in PostScript' / 'Triceratops'.

Was there ever a pdf version of this triceratops model uploaded to the ftp
site?

--
mailto:Mikeinnj@concentric.net
http://www.concentric.net/~Mikeinnj/





Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 08:22:51 -0400 (AST)
From: Rjlang@aol.com
Subject: TreeMaker 4.0

Well, having put a teaser out there a few days ago, I'm now obligated to
reply to the people who have written asking things like "What's 4.0 got that
3.6 lacked?" and "What is TreeMaker anyway and why should I care?" I can't
help with the last question, but here goes on the first two:

TreeMaker is a computer program I've been working on for several years that
designs origami bases. You tell it, for example, "I want an origami base with
six legs and four wings and a long neck and antennae, and I want the wings to
be twice as long as the legs, and I want the legs to all come from the same
place, but I want the antennae to come from the end of the long neck, and
they should be 3 times as long as the legs," etc., etc. Except you don't say
it in words, you draw a stick figure (that's the "tree") of what you want.
TreeMaker computes the crease pattern for the largest possible base from a
square that meets your requirements. It also permits you to refine your
design in a bunch of different ways to make it more elegant. If you print out
the crease pattern, cut out the square and fold on the lines, you will get a
base with the right number, length, and distribution of flaps that you set as
the target.

If you've downloaded versions 3.0-3.6 from the archives, you know this
already. What's new in 4.0? Over the past year I've improved the mathematical
algorithms considerably (thanks go to Alex Bateman and Erik Demaine for
crucial suggestions at the right times), so that for the first time,
TreeMaker finds EVERY crease in the base (it used to miss a few). It also
finds workable patterns for a lot of configurations that it didn't used to,
e.g., underconstrained patterns (you'll have read the documentation to
understand what that means) and it's got a new user interface that makes the
process of creating and refining a design much more efficient.

Under the hood, the nonlinear constrained optimizer that powers the whole
thing is a very powerful code developed at the University of Maryland that
makes version 4.0 run about 5 times faster than any earlier version.

TreeMaker 4.0 is a Macintosh application. It's a fat binary -- it will run
native on either 680x0 or PPC machines in 4 MB of free memory. (And it is
FAT: version 4.0 weighs in at 2.1 MB on disk. I thought about renaming it
"TreeMaker Office 97".) Because of the heavy number-crunching, it will
probably be v-e-r-r-r-y slow on a 680x0 machine.

To forestall the inevitable next question, no, I will not port it to
Windows/Rhapsody/Unix/Linux/X Windows/Sun/Cray/etc. I don't have that flavor
of machine, a suitable development environment, or the desire in any of those
cases. I do have a couple of volunteers to port it to Windows and Linux who
I've promised to help with the process.

I've added a bunch to the documentation, too; it's now a single .pdf file of
about 160 pp that contains an introduction, a bunch of tutorials, a complete
reference to every command and dialog box, a layman's description of the
underlying theory, a purely mathematical description of the theory, and a
description of the software model.

So, right now, I'm putting the finishing touches on the documentation. I
figure I'll get it sent off to Maartin for the archives sometime before
Christmas. I'll post another message to this list when it's there.

Robert J. Lang
rjlang@aol.com





Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 08:24:27 -0400 (AST)
From: "Dave, Cheryl Howe" <cdhowe@conneti.com>
Subject: Re: Favorite Santas?

        My favorite santa has to be Father Christmas from David Brill's
     "Brilliant
Origami".  He also has a Father Christmas with Sack.  Both are realtively
easy to fold, and both are from a 2x1 rectangle.
        I have to seen Fred Rohm's Santa, but I did look through Harbin's
     Origami
1,2,3,4 but did not find anything that beat-out the Brill model.
        There is a nice Angel in "Origami 3" which was created by Dokuohtei
Nakano, which looks great with foil!

        Happy Holidays,

        Dave R. Howe





Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 09:19:19 -0400 (AST)
From: Douglas Zander <dzander@solaria.sol.net>
Subject: Fall issue of _The Paper_

I still have not recieved the fall issue of The Paper from OrigamiUSA.
Has anyone else have problems with getting the issue?  Is it late?

--
 Douglas Zander                |
 dzander@solaria.sol.net       |
 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA     |





Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 10:12:48 -0400 (AST)
From: Marc Kirschenbaum <contract@pipeline.com>
Subject: Skeleton diagrams

For those who are interested, I just uploaded diagrams for my "Skeleton"
model aot the alt.binaries.pictures.origami newsgroup. When I hear from
Maarten, I sould be able to upload them to the ftp.rug.nl/origami archives
as well. There are 10 files plus a picture of the completed model (all
.gif). The model is somewhat difficult, and the diagrams are hand drawn, so
just be forewarned.

Marc





Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 10:47:43 -0400 (AST)
From: Michael Montebello <florafauna@classic.msn.com>
Subject: RE: problems getting mail from the list

There may be a correlation between the end of semesters and list problems >>>
just my hobbits observation<<<. Just wait a round, Keep somebody's  direct
address to check that you have not been dropped and enjoy the list when it
works.
Susan Dugan

----------
From:  origami-l@nstn.ca on behalf of rickbissell@ncweb.com
Sent:  Monday, December 08, 1997 7:18 AM
To:  Multiple recipients of list
Subject:  Re: problems getting mail from the list





Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 11:38:27 -0400 (AST)
From: Jeff Kerwood <jkerwood@usaor.net>
Subject: Re: Favorite Santas?

Well, first let me qualify what "favorite" means when I say it. I have only
folded one Santa and I liked it (still a newbi at origami). I reply right
off cause I thought someone else would surely say it, but I never saw it
(coulda missed it, ya know how that goes).

Essential Origami, Steve and Megumi Biddle
ISBN 0-312-05716-4 (pg 126)
>From sqr paper, preliminary base.

I know of an experienced folder (you'll know who you are) who knows this
model. If you would like to let us know how you think this ranks with other
Santas that you've seen I'd be interested to know your opinion (so I know
if I should keep this one around or learn a new one).

Have a  :-) day,
Jeff Kerwood
jkerwood@usaor.net





Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 12:25:38 -0400 (AST)
From: Bren Riesinger <fascfold@fascinating-folds.com>
Subject: Holiday Specials and Japanese Books

Origami Greetings!

For those of you who are not on our private email mailing list, you
might want to check the 'specials' page on our website.  There are
 several origami papers on close-out as well as special sale pricing
on some of the Origami products (including the International Peace
Crane T-Shirts).  The sale prices are only good through the end of
December, though :-)

Also, we have been fortunate in negotiating a better discount from
our supplier for the Japanese Origami books- consequently, you
will notice that virtually all the Japanese Books have been reduced
 in price.  This is a permanent price adjustment (barring any major
swings in the yen :-)

Happy folding -
Bren Riesinger
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - -
Fascinating Folds
Suppliers for Origami and the Paper Arts
http://www.fascinating-folds.com





Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 17:17:54 -0400 (AST)
From: Alex Barber <barber@admin.carlberg.com>
Subject: Re: _Triceratops_ Diagrams

>Was there ever a pdf version of this triceratops model uploaded to the ftp
>site?

I asked Jerry to send me his original diagrams so I could create a PDF file
for him and the group. The diagrams are now up on my site at
http://www.the-village.com/origami/diagram.html

Alex Barber

--
tel 713.965.0764 fax 713.965.0135
barber@admin.carlberg.com
barber@the-village.com | http://www.the-village.com





Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 18:40:47 -0400 (AST)
From: Jorma Oksanen <tenu@sci.fi>
Subject: Exhibit reminder

This is a reminder for (hopefully many of) you who thought about
sending your models for my exhibit but have forgot about it (not
many of you, this time :)

The exhibit is at Hmeenlinna library from 26 January to 7 February.
Hmeenlinna, as we all know, lies in the Southern Finland.

If you send something, please include your name, creator of model
and the book where the model can be found, so I can credit your
work appropriately. I will return yor work if you want, otherwise
they will be given to kids in children ward at the local hospital.

The address where you can send your models is

Jorma Oksanen
Hmeentie 6-8 A 4
13200 HMEENLINNA
FINLAND

Thanks,
Jorma





Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 18:42:18 -0400 (AST)
From: Jorma Oksanen <tenu@sci.fi>
Subject: Re: TreeMaker 4.0

On 08-Dec-97, Rjlang@aol.com (Rjlang@aol.com) wrote:

>TreeMaker 4.0 is a Macintosh application. It's a fat binary -- it will run
>native on either 680x0 or PPC machines in 4 MB of free memory. (And it is
>FAT: version 4.0 weighs in at 2.1 MB on disk. I thought about renaming it
>"TreeMaker Office 97".) Because of the heavy number-crunching, it will
>probably be v-e-r-r-r-y slow on a 680x0 machine.

Well, I've run TreeMaker 3.6 on a 50MHz 68030 Amiga (!) using shareware
Mac emulator "Shapeshifter" and I don't think it's too slow to be usable.
Can't give timings because of a severe HD crash, but I remember it coping
well at least with simpler bases.

>To forestall the inevitable next question, no, I will not port it to
>Windows/Rhapsody/Unix/Linux/X Windows/Sun/Cray/etc. I don't have that
flavor
>of machine, a suitable development environment, or the desire in any of
>those cases. I do have a couple of volunteers to port it to Windows and
>Linux who I've promised to help with the process.

Until then people with *FAST* machines can run it with a decent Mac
emulator.
If there isn't such a thing for PC, one can always run Shapeshifter on an
emulated Amiga :)

Jorma





Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 18:47:50 -0400 (AST)
From: Rachel Katz <mandrk@pb.net>
Subject: Re: Skeleton diagrams

> For those who are interested, I just uploaded diagrams for my "Skeleton"
> model aot the alt.binaries.pictures.origami newsgroup. When I hear from
> Maarten, I sould be able to upload them to the ftp.rug.nl/origami archives
> as well. There are 10 files plus a picture of the completed model (all
> .gif). The model is somewhat difficult, and the diagrams are hand drawn, so
> just be forewarned.
>
> Marc

I saw this model at the home office of OUSA. It is truly incredible! Marc, how
large was the paper for the large finished model that I saw?

Rachel Katz
Origami - it's not just for squares!





Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 18:50:52 -0400 (AST)
From: Rachel Katz <mandrk@pb.net>
Subject: Re: Favorite Santas?

> Well, first let me qualify what "favorite" means when I say it. I have only
> folded one Santa and I liked it (still a newbi at origami). I reply right
> off cause I thought someone else would surely say it, but I never saw it
> (coulda missed it, ya know how that goes).
>
> Essential Origami, Steve and Megumi Biddle
> ISBN 0-312-05716-4 (pg 126)
> >From sqr paper, preliminary base.
>
I ditto your choice. It has a wonderful 3/D quality that you usually get only
from wet folding

Rachel Katz
Origami - it's not just for squares!





Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 19:19:34 -0400 (AST)
From: Mike & Janet Hamilton <Mikeinnj@concentric.net>
Subject: Re: Fall issue of _The Paper_

I did receive the Fall issue several weeks ago.  It had detailed coverage
of the convention.

Douglas Zander wrote:

> I still have not recieved the fall issue of The Paper from OrigamiUSA.
> Has anyone else have problems with getting the issue?  Is it late?

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Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 20:44:49 -0400 (AST)
From: JacAlArt <JacAlArt@aol.com>
Subject: Re:  Skeleton diagrams

In a message dated 12/8/97 6:15:47 AM, you wrote:

<<For those who are interested, I just uploaded diagrams for my "Skeleton"
model aot the alt.binaries.pictures.origami newsgroup. >>

Is it just me -- or are there 21 of the same file here? They all show up as
Skeleton9.gif -- at least here on AOL.
~Alec
