




Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 14:18:48 -0500
From: "Metzger, Jacob" <JMetzger@CITGROUP.COM>
Subject: Letters from 2nd Grade Origami class
Comments: To: "Origami@MIT.Edu" <Origami@MIT.EDU>

To all-

Once or twice a year, I try to go into my kids' classes and teach
origami. Columbus Day and Martin Luther King,Jr. day usually work out,
since I have off those days, while my kids have school. So this year I
went to my middle son's kindergarten class twice, and my oldest's 2nd
grade class once. The 2nd grader felt that since I had already come 3
times in previous years, he didn't want me to come AGAIN. However, when
January rolled around, he changed his mind. (See his post-class letter,
below)
So on January 19, I taught both classes, for an hour each. I started off
with Jeremy Schaefer's black & white linked rings origami magic trick
(with patter appropriately adapted for MLK day), followed by the
business card frog and magazine cover box, ending with Kenneth
Kawamura's   butterfly ball and story (in Gay M. Gross' Art of
Origami/Origami Workshop). A good time was had by all, although I must
admit I have renewed respect for full-time teachers, as my voice was
just about gone by the end of the second class (2nd graders had a class
of 15, kindergarten, 26!).
The 2nd grade class all wrote individual letters thanking me, which I
will share with you all. The kindergarten class sent a large poster
sized (oak tag?) thank you with all their signatures (you know, the kind
you see in pizza shops saying "Thanks for showing us how to make
pizza"). I was moved by their responses to construct my largest models
construction paper) for their classrooms.
Anyway, here are the 2nd grader's letters, misspellings and all - enjoy!
(I certainly did!)

Yaacov Metzger
jmetzger@citgroup.com

Dear Mr. Metzger,
Jan. 20, 1998
I loved leaning Origami because it was new for me. It was good. The
class and I loved it very much. I hope I am in Gavriel's class next
year.
Sincerely, Leslie
...
Thank you for teaching us Origami. My frog can jump a yard. The box can
not break at all. I hope I am in Gavriel's class next year.
Sincerely, Rebecca
...
Thank you for coming to our class, I realy liked making frogs and the
box. I want you to come here again.
Sincerely, Devorah
...
I enjoyed doing origami with you. I liked the frog the best. I liked all
the blocks of paper [I had brought in some modular origami models] you
made. I liked it when you hit one of them. I taught my friend to make a
frog. When I brought it home my mom was surprised it could jump. She
also thought it was cute.
Sincerely, Elana
...
Thank you for coming. I enjoyed making a box, and a frog. I didn't know
that Origami would be fun. It was fun folding the paper into different
things. The class and I liked doing Origami.
Sincerely, Elisa
...
Thank you for teaching me origami. I enjoyed making frogs. I named all
my frogs. I made some at home with my dads old business cards. It was
fun making the frogs at home. I still have cards left. [Hmmm... perhaps
we can sign her up for Jeanine Moseley's Menger sponge project...]
Sincerely, Nili
...
I learind  a lot from you. The frog and all the origamis. I think our
class loved it. I liked the box. I hope I am in Gavriel's class next
year.
Sincerely, Jaclyn
...
Dear Abba, [That's me!]
This was the 4th time you came to my class. I liked it when you hit the
model and pieces flew all over, maybe you should come in 3rd grade too.
Well, Ben has already done Origami but it was fun and cool. Thank for
coming.
Love, your son, Gavriel
...
Thank you for coming in to our class. I liked the frogs we made I named
mine King Frog. I never new Origami could be such work. I liked it when
you hit the design and it went everywhere.
Sincerely, Kevin
...
I liked making Origamis with you. I never knoew how much fun Origamis
could be.
Sincerely, Jenny
...
Thank you for coming to our class. I liked making Origami. I named my
frog Frogy Frog.
Sincerely, Andrew
...
Thank you for coming to my class. I liked when you did Origami with the
class.
Sincerely, Emily
...
I really liked Origami. I had a lot of fun learning. My mother and
father liked it too. Thank you for coming. I would like you to come
again, and teach us more about Origami.
Sincerely, Amy
...
Thank you for coming to class 2-D. I really enjoyed the Origami class. I
liked to learn how to make a box and frog. It was alot of fun.
Sincerely, Baruch
...
This is the 2nd time I did this with you. I like to do Origami. Thank
you for doing this with the class. I like the box we made together. I
like the frog also.
Sincerely, Sara





Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 14:49:33 -0600 (CST)
From: Douglas Zander <dzander@SOLARIA.SOL.NET>
Subject: possible origami sighting?

at this location:
http://www.escrow.net/451.htm
there is a painting based on the Ray Bradbury story and it depicts a
man made of paper holding what looks like an origami paper hat and
this man is on fire!  neat painting I think  :-)





Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 14:57:24 -0700
From: Nigel Pottle <fowlerj1@CADVISION.COM>
Subject: Re: possible origami sighting?

An Interesting painting. To help understand it, one needs to know that
Bradbury's book, Fahrenheit 451 is about book burning and censorship.
Fahrenheit 451 is the flash point of paper, the temperature at which paper
will burst into flames. I read this book years ago. The painting is
certainly is a strong image. And it does appear to be one of those
newspaper hats we made as children. Thanks for sharing the picture with us.

Nigel Pottle

----------
> From: Douglas Zander <dzander@SOLARIA.SOL.NET>
> To: ORIGAMI@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: possible origami sighting?
> Date: Monday, March 02, 1998 1:49 PM
>
> at this location:
> http://www.escrow.net/451.htm
> there is a painting based on the Ray Bradbury story and it depicts a
> man made of paper holding what looks like an origami paper hat and
> this man is on fire!  neat painting I think  :-)





Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 15:38:18 -0500
From: Valerie Vann <valerie_vann@COMPUSERVE.COM>
Subject: Re: A question to copyrights and etiquette

Copyright issues with regard to origami are a little unusual
and tricky, while manners and ethics are easy (just do to
others as you'd like done to yourself)

The best answer to questions about copyright and origami
is to search the message archive of the origami mailing list
for "copyright". This issue has been discussed *exhaustively*
and in great detail in past messages to the list, at least once
a year and sometimes more often.

Valerie Vann
valerie_vann@compuserve.com





Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 19:41:38 +0000
From: Rachel Katz <mandrk@PB.NET>
Subject: Re: Letters from 2nd Grade Origami class
Priority: normal
Comments: Authenticated sender is <mandrk@mail.pb.net>

Yacov,

Great lesson and letters. I agree that teaching origami all day is a strain on
your voice. I had to learn how to use mine properly.

Your letters were great. My favorite was one I got after teaching big groups in
a school for a week. I had covered about 1,000 kids. One child wrote a thank
you letter, signed his name and then identified himself as "The kid in the blue
shirt."

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





Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 20:33:24 -0500
From: Rob Hudson <rhudson@NETRAX.NET>
Subject: Catching up

Hi all--

I'm unpacking for the 2nd time this year, and I found a bunch of SASE's
that I forgot to send about a year ago!  I stuffed em' with diagrams, so if
you receive a strange envelope, please e-mail me and let me know if you got
what you were supposed to!

Rob





Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 01:37:04 -0500
From: acpquinn@PANTHER.MIDDLEBURY.EDU
Subject: Re: possible origami sighting?

At 02:57 PM 3/2/98 -0700, you wrote:
>An Interesting painting. To help understand it, one needs to know that
>Bradbury's book, Fahrenheit 451 is about book burning and censorship.
>Fahrenheit 451 is the flash point of paper, the temperature at which paper
>will burst into flames. I read this book years ago. The painting is
>certainly is a strong image. And it does appear to be one of those
>newspaper hats we made as children. Thanks for sharing the picture with us.
>
>Nigel Pottle

i'm a big fan of bradbury's work, so i grabbed the whole huge half-meg
jpg...seems the guy depicted isn't only holding a hat, he's wearing an
entire suit of newspaper and standing on a pile of burning books....i don't
remember this image from the book, but it's been a while...

now has anyone ever folded an entire outfit out of paper before? i think
it'd be a great thing to wear to a convention...i remember maarten invented
a vest made of units, and i did see someone wearing one at one
convention... and i've seen slippers, shoes, hats, but never a shirt or
pants...so here's a challenge...next convention i want to see someone
wearing an origami suit ;)

peace,
alasdair





Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 10:14:48 -0500
From: Susan Dugan <florafauna@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
Subject: Re: origami enthusiast survey

>     1) Who or What got you interested in learning origami?

As a adult I purchased a (Venus) kusudama kit at the Japanese pavilion at
Walt Disney World.  The directions were in Japanese, I  figured it out until
the step "unfold and turn inside out and refold" the next day I got help
with the translation.  It took a couple of years before I finished the ball.
what really got me interested in origami was the birth of my daughter.  I
needed to do a hobby that wasn't dangerous to a child.  Stained glass,
needle work, and other artistic endeavors were vetoed.  I decided that if
she got ahold of my origami it was "just a piece of paper"  she could
possibly choke but sometimes you take chances ( over protective wasn't I) on
following trips to Orlando I purchased paper and books.

>     2) Was it a solitary pursuit or a collaaborative effort?

  solitary, until finding out about the New York Convention.

>     3) Do you do it as a hobby?

  Yes

>     4) Did you learn it as a child?

yes simple things

>     5) What models do you remember from childhood and are they commonly
found basic origami books?

water bomb, Fortune teller, drinking cup,  pirate hat

>     6) Do you teach it to groups formally or informally?

yes, Girl  Scouts, youth groups, and I use origami to teach critical
thinking and team work with college students.

>     7) Are you a professional who makes a living from origami books,
>workshops etc.? I recognize some names
>like Joseph Wu in this category and I hope they will respond.

  No

>     8) Have you done family oriented workshops?

no
>     9) Do you think origami could become as popular in America as it has
>become in Japan or do you think
>most Americans are too impatient?  ( I find many kids and adults don't have
>long enough attention spans to
>go beyond basic origami)

I think the problem is not attention spans but not wanting to put long
hours creating something out of paper.  This is perceived as not being
permanent or useful.

>    10) I think it could be a good family activity if young parents could
be
>turned on to the fun, educational
>and cultural benefits-What do you think?

  Yes

Ria,
 I think the most amazing thing about origami and this list is where every
one is from.  The International appeal of  folding little pieces of paper is
totally awesome.  Although origami isn't for everyone it appears that it can
be special for someone without regards to borders, cultures, languages, race
or continents.
Susan Dugan
South Carolina





Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 10:16:26 -0800
From: Joseph Wu <josephwu@ULTRANET.CA>
Subject: Re: three questions about Robert Lang's moose

Ariel:

>            I saw in Joseph Wu's page ( gallery section, Other Impressive
>Origami ) a moose by Robert Lang. My questions are:
>            1) Is it wet folding or the standard paper folding ?

It is a wet folded model.

>            2) Does anyone have the diagrams to do it ? Are they in any book
>? or as GIF/PDF ?

I don't think so. Robert?

>            3) I saw references to a moose by Fumiaki Kawahata. Does anyone
>know how these two compare ? which one is the most detailed..or so ?

Robert's is nicer.

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Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 10:38:52 -0500
From: Rick Bissell <rick@TRIDELTA.COM>
Subject: origami haiku
>Received: from sparcy.tridelta.com (root@sparcy.tridelta.com
 [192.160.168.222]) by tdi3.tridelta.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA01022
 for <origami@mit.edu>; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 10:36:30 -0500
Comments: To: origami@MIT.EDU

I was surfing last night and found a web page that had over 300 haikus
written about SPAM (the food junk, not the email junk).  Amazing.  Anyway,
it inspired me to write this.  Does anyone have any others?

    fingers touch paper
    unlocking the smooth cocoon
    behold! a butterfly

        - Rick Bissell





Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 11:49:25 +0100
From: Julius Kusserow <juku@STUDI.MATHEMATIK.HU-BERLIN.DE>
Subject: Re: A question to copyrights and etiquette

Thanks to Rob Moes and Valerie Vann. Now I found all information I
searched in a recent discussion on origami-l archives.

Julius





Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 12:36:28 -0500 (EST)
From: DLister891 <DLister891@AOL.COM>
Subject: Jacks [NO]

In his posting of 1st March, Mark Saliers, In response to my own posting on
the Jackstone wrote:

"My general cultural question is....

"The jackstone, though a marvelous piece of origami, doesn't resemble very
much what kids in my neighbourhood (in the States) called "Jacks" (which look
something like a model of methane, CH4 -- 3 pieces of metal with a bulb on one
end crisscrossing each other at right angles).

"Do children in the UK play with jacks that acturally look like the jackstone,
or is the name strictly a flight of fancy?"

Roberto Morassi pointed out that this conformation was not methane, but I
cannot comment on this. I should, however, be intrested to know what molecule,
if any, does have this structure. Apart from this, I think that Mark means
three pieces of metal with a bulb on _each_ end - six bulbs or six little
knobs in all, like three dumbells forming a three-dimensional cross.

If you compare the pyramids of Jack Skillman's Jackstone with the six little
knobs then there is a slight resemblance, but whether actual jacks used for
playing ever took this shape, I do not know. My feeling is that Jack
Skillman's Jackstone has quite a sophisticated geometrical shape and it is
unlikely that children would go to the trouble (even if they had the technical
skill) of fashioning stones into this shape just to play this simple game
where the shape of the jacks is hardly important.

I cannot remember when I last saw children playing jacks, so I cannot say much
about the shape of the jacks. Certainly the metal kind with six little knobs
are still obtainable in toyshops today. But I remember that in earlier days,
the jacks were plain or coloured cubes, the faces of which had a corugated
pattern on them, presumably to make them less slippery.

Ther is an interesting chapter on Jacks (called here, Fivestones - the older
name) in Iona and Peter Opie's latest and final book on children's games and
sayings, which came out last year. Their first book on the subject, "The Lore
and Language of Schoolchildren" was published as long ago as 1959. The title
of their new book, the fourth in the series, is "Children's Games with
Things". Peter Opie died in 1982,so the book is actually compiled by Iona,
although much of Peter's work is included in it. Incidentally, so far as I
know, the Opies never wrote about paperfolding as a children's game. I did,
however, correspond with Iona some years ago about the word "Origami" in
English, because it was she who helped the compilers of the revised edition of
the Oxford English Dictionary about this word. She had advised that the first
appearance of "origami" in English was in Robert Harbin's "Paper Magic"
(1956). I didn't entirely agree, but by then the entry for "Origami" had been
fixed.

The Opie's chapter begins with the learned statement: "Early in the history of
the world the knucklebone or astragalus, which is the ankle bone of cloven-
hoofed animals, was seen as an excellent plaything. Its neat oblong shape,
about 1 inch long in the case of sheep, and four distinctive sides, make it a
natural dice......However, the game that concerns us here is "Pentalitha"
("Fivestones"), written in thesecond century AD." The Opies follow with a
quotation from Pollux's Onomasticon, written in the second  century AD:

"In Pentalitha, five little stones or pebbles or knucklebones were thrown
up,so that the thrower, turning his hand over, received them on the back of
it; if all of them did not land onit, while keeping those that did land lying
there he picked up the rest with his fingers"

"The game", Pollux added, "is rather for women"; The Opies continue: "In a
famous painting from Pompei by Alexander of Athens, which is a copy of an
original painting in the fifth century BC, two goddesses can be seen playing
it."

Obviously, for various reasons, not least those of copyright, which should be
familiar to every subscriber to Origami-L, I cannot quote the whole of this
very interesting chapter here. Nevertheless, because of what has already been
written about jackstones in Origami-L, and because of its transatlantic
flavour, I was particularly struck by the following paragraph and think that I
can squeeze it in, within my limited rights of reasonable quotation:

" 'Jacks' is, nowadays, the universal English-language name for fivestones, a
word which has been 'laundered' in its transition from Ireland to the United
States to refer to metal 'jacks': those commercially produced, six-knobbed
metal stars (or according to an 8-year-old in Stepney, 1976, 'funny things
made of spikes with bobbles on the end') which are easier to manipulate than
stones, cubes, or bones. They have been made in plastic since around 1960,
though plastic is too light a material. The standard equipment is five jacks
and a small hard ruber ball, but since ten jacks are often provided in a
packet, children have frequently played with all ten. According to the
evidence, they are an American invention. W.W.Newell, Games and Songs of
American Children (1883; 1903 edn. pp. 190-3) describes 'Jack-stones' and its
variations as played with pebbles, and adds 'Instead of pebbles, little double
tripods of iron....are generally in use'.  W.H.Babcock, 'Games of Washigton
Children', American Anthropologist, I (1888). 268-9, called them 'a set of
oddly shaped bits of metal'. They made a regular appearance in American mail-
order catalogues: for instance in the Montgomerie Ward  and Co. mail-order
catalogue for 1889, p. 33: 'Jack Stones Nicely Coppered, good sizes.  Per
dozen $0.04 Per gross $0.30.' Exactly when the metal stars first appeared in
Great Britain is not known, but innumerable people remember playing with them
in the mid-1930s, especially in girl's boarding schools".

It makes me feel like going out and buying a gross and having a go.

David Lister.

Grimsby, England.

DLister891@AOL.com





Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 13:29:37 -0800
From: Joseph Wu <josephwu@ULTRANET.CA>
Subject: Re: origami haiku

>     fingers touch paper
>     unlocking the smooth cocoon
>     behold! a butterfly

Rick, you've got an extra syllable in the last line! Here are a couple more
attempts:

        pleat, pleat, pleat again
        tesselations form the back
        Joisel's pangolin

        fold it only once
        Paul Jackson's fingers dance to
        form a subtle curve

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Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 13:41:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Kenny1414 <Kenny1414@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: origami enthusiast survey

In answer to the survey questions, dated 98-02-26 10:19:04 EST,
from Ria Sutter ( sutterj@EARTHLINK.NET ):

>  Hi Origamians,
>
>  My curiosity about origami history and interest in how much the art of
paper
>  folding has spread and by
>  whom has led me to pose the following questions to list members:
>
>       1) Who or What got you interested in learning origami?

Not sure. I remember my mother, one rainy day, teaching us kids
some of the traditional folds, the waterbomb, the crane.

I remember, in elementary school, noticing some girls doing the
Yakkosan-w/pants multiform, and being curious enough to pester them
into showing me how it was folded.

Of us three kids, I was the only one who got really interested.
Mommy was an "education  mama", and got me some of the
children's origami books, back when they still had the tipped-in
origami examples.

Later, when I stumbled on the Randletts' books, The Art of Origami
and The Best of Origami, Mommy bought those for me, too.

>       2) Was it a solitary pursuit or a collaaborative effort?
Oh, very solitary.

>       3) Do you do it as a hobby?
Heck, yes. Among a lot of other hobbies.

>       4) Did you learn it as a child?
Yes, see answer 1. (This is an easy question, since I've never grown up,
and am still learning.)

But most of what I know, I learned out of books. I'm lucky to have the
knack for reading diagrams. Once in a great while, I can look at a
photo and mentally unfold back to a recognizable base.

In high school, I started to learn to be creative, and in late college
it happened again. Comes and goes in streaks.

As far as I could tell, I hit a critical mass of experience folding,
and could finally think about what I wanted to do, instead of what
I was doing. But it still only happens when it happens.

I'm guessing that "Aha!" feeling when I find a new fold, is what
Zen Buddhism calls satori. Sometimes it's a flash of insight.
Sometimes it's a flow of technical answers to "what do I do next?".

Sometimes it feels like mind-over-matter, when you just know
to slide your fingers just so, to get the paper to adjust and fall
where you want it.

But it's possible to lose it, too. I can't fold John Montroll's
Stegosaur recently. I still have it memorized. It just won't fold
for me anymore. The plates crumple instead of collapsing
neatly, where the folds won't reverse for me. *sigh*.

I'm still not a very creative folder.

>       5) What models do you remember from childhood and are they commonly
>  found basic origami books?
???? Define childhood?

The oldest models I remember are the waterbomb and crane,
and {the newspaper boat and hat and printer's hat and paper popgun}
that I remember  Daddy teaching me.
Daddy was a shipwelder at Pearl Harbor, and his union newsletter
was crisp strong white paper, great for popguns.
After the first couple of explosions, strong enough to rip the paper,
Mommy put her foot down and said no more of those.

I think Daddy brought home extra copies of the newsletter for me
to play with. I'm sorry I didn't keep copies of the newsletter. It had
a nice column on applied developmental geometry, or whatever you
call it, where you lay out the net for making a 3-D shape out of
sheetmetal.

Around 7th or 8th grade, I discovered Scientific American magazine,
Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games column there, and the book
Mathematical Models by Cundy and Rollett referred to in the column,
which book Mommy sent away for. I'd already started constructing
cut-and-fold polyhedra, and the "Plaited Crystal Models" in the book
took me in a whole new direction. Used up lots of newsletters
making those.

For a while, I was collecting every origami book I came across.

>       6) Do you teach it to groups formally or informally?
Rarely to formal groups. I'm way too shy and clumsy, and my voice
just doesn't carry.

Sometimes teach informally.

Concentrating somewhat on teaching other informal teachers.

>       7) Are you a professional who makes a living from origami books,
>  workshops etc.? I recognize some names
>  like Joseph Wu in this category and I hope they will respond.

Don't I wish I were that good?
No, but a few of my older designs have been published.

>       8) Have you done family oriented workshops?

Not really.

>       9) Do you think origami could become as popular in America as it has
>  become in Japan or do you think
>  most Americans are too impatient?  ( I find many kids and adults don't have
>  long enough attention spans to
>  go beyond basic origami)

Funny. I thought it was more popular here. Just very diffused into the
general population.

I remember what a shock it was, the first time I ran into someone who
couldn't fold a sheet of paper in half, and make the edges line up.
For a lot of people, the traditional folds are a physical challenge
because they haven't developed the motor skills and reflexes for
folding. It isn't that they can't do it, but they don't have any practice.

>      10) I think it could be a good family activity if young parents could
be
>  turned on to the fun, educational
>  and cultural benefits-What do you think?

Noit necessarily only young parents. Look at the Shall family.

>  My original interest was to find out whether members might have learned
>  origami from parents or other family
>  members, as it has been done in Japan and other Asian countries.  I
expected
>  most responses from Asian
>  Americans, Latin Americans, Anglicans,and people of Arab ancestry to
respond
>  because of what I've read on
>  the history of origami.  I expect that computers and the information age
>  will change the history of paper
>  folding and speed its popularity across the world.
>
I don't know, I think improvement in educational and publishing technology
is more significant than culture.

The biggest thing, I think, is the availability of books, and diagrams.

The Yoshizawa-Harbin-Randlett code of lines and arrows is a wonderful
invention.

From what I've been reading, the initial interest comes from seeing
an origami, a folder, or a book, usually not from within the family,
and having a mind that is tickled by that exposure.

>  Thanks in advance to anybody who takes the time to respond,
>  Ria Sutter





Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 14:18:22 -0500
From: acpquinn@PANTHER.MIDDLEBURY.EDU
Subject: Re: Jacks [NO]

At 12:36 PM 3/3/98 -0500, you wrote:
>In his posting of 1st March, Mark Saliers, In response to my own posting on
>the Jackstone wrote:
>
>"My general cultural question is....
>
>"The jackstone, though a marvelous piece of origami, doesn't resemble very
>much what kids in my neighbourhood (in the States) called "Jacks" (which look
>something like a model of methane, CH4 -- 3 pieces of metal with a bulb on
one
>end crisscrossing each other at right angles).
>
>"Do children in the UK play with jacks that acturally look like the
jackstone,
>or is the name strictly a flight of fancy?"
>
>Roberto Morassi pointed out that this conformation was not methane, but I
>cannot comment on this. I should, however, be intrested to know what
molecule,
>if any, does have this structure. Apart from this, I think that Mark means
>three pieces of metal with a bulb on _each_ end - six bulbs or six little
>knobs in all, like three dumbells forming a three-dimensional cross.

actually -- and i hate to hog bandwidth with such useless facts -- a
jackstone has three bars in an x, y and z-axis pattern, but only two of the
axes have balls on the ends. the third has sort of tapered ends almost
making it to a point at either end. the only reason i know this is because
when i was a kid, i didn't like so much to play the game of jacks with them
as to use them as little tops and spin them across the kitchen floor.

still, jack skillman's jackstone doesn't look much like one, except for the
x, y and z-axes. i suppose you could squeeze down the points to make it
more "jackstone"ish, but to be perfectly honest i never noticed the
reference to the game...i thought it was just a "stone named after jack
skillman"

but anyway...did anyone else here learn the cubic jackstone a few
conventions ago? that was a fun model, but i don't remember who did it. i
have the diagrams i drew up somewhere around here.. does anyone have more
legible diagrams for it?

peace,
alasdair





Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 14:23:03 -0500
From: Dennis Walker <d_and_m_walker@COMPUSERVE.COM>
Subject: origami enthusiast survey

Yet another enthusiast replies!

I'm not sure how everyone else feels, but I have rather enjoyed seeing the
other replies.

Here's mine

> 1) Who or what got me interested in Origami?
My next door neighbour was clearing out some of her son's old books and
games to
give to a jumble sale. I was handed Robert Harbin's 'Origami 2'  because
she thought
I might like it.

>2) Was it solitary or collaborative?
Solitary.

>3) Do you do it as a hobby?
Very definitely!

>4)Did you learn it as a child?
I basically learned from the Robert Harbin book. I was 10 years old at the
time.

>5) What models do you remember from childhood?
I remember being taught the Fortune Teller (Cootie Catcher) in the
playground at school. This was before I knew what origami was. I can even
remember how to use it to tell a fortune or insult someone!  One model that
particularly stands out for me is the Sampan. This is the boat that you
have to turn inside out as the last step. I am still charmed by that model
to this day (I'm now thirtysomething)

>6) Do you teach it to groups formally or informally?
I have taught the odd simple model to friends and colleagues, usually the
flapping bird.

>7) Are you a professional.
Sadly no. Nor do I expect to be able to.

>8) Have you done family oriented workshops?
Not unless you count getting my nephew and my dad to help make some Sonobe
modules.

>9) Do you think origami could become as popular in America as it is in
Japan?
I couldn't comment on America. In Britain I think the answer would be no. I
agree to some extent with the attention span comment (i.e. many people
don't seem to have one!) but I think that it is still seen as a childish,
pointless pastime ranking with trainspotting and making model aeroplanes.
Certainly when people find out that I fold paper as a hobby they look at me
warily. Those that see some of the final products have reactions varying
from 'Very nice, but what's the point?' to mild admiration that something
so pretty could come from a single uncut square of paper.

>10) I think it could be a good family activity if young parents could be
turned on to the fun, educational and cultural benefits - What do you
think?
I think that you would have a hard time convincing them. On the other
(cynical) hand showing them a way of keeping the kids quiet for a while
might work! :-)

Dennis Walker
Rosyth
Scotland





Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 14:25:41 -0500
From: Doug Philips <dwp+@TRANSARC.COM>
Subject: Re: origami haiku

>     fingers touch paper
>     unlocking the smooth cocoon
>     behold! a butterfly
>
>         - Rick Bissell

Thanks Rick!

How's this:

        Spring, Praying Mantis
        stretching paper does not tear
        Lang fiendishly grins!

                -Doug Philps

--
end
<a href="http://www.pgh.net/~dwp">Doug's Fun Page</a>





Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 15:10:07 +0100
From: Ariel <ariel@DATAPHONE.SE>
Subject: three questions about Robert Lang's moose

Hi !!!

            I saw in Joseph Wu's page ( gallery section, Other Impressive
Origami ) a moose by Robert Lang. My questions are:

            1) Is it wet folding or the standard paper folding ?

            2) Does anyone have the diagrams to do it ? Are they in any book
? or as GIF/PDF ?

            3) I saw references to a moose by Fumiaki Kawahata. Does anyone
know how these two compare ? which one is the most detailed..or so ?

                                                            Thanks.





Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 17:14:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Unafolder <Unafolder@AOL.COM>
Subject: Attention Joseph Wu

Joseph,

the Unafolder has important information for you

respond





Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 17:32:38 -0800
From: Joseph Wu <josephwu@ULTRANET.CA>
Subject: Re: origami haiku
>At 01:29 PM 3/3/98 -0800, you wrote:
>>        pleat, pleat, pleat again
>>        tesselations form the back
>>        Joisel's pangolin
>
>what? someone else invented a pangolin? are there directions? can i get a
>copy from anyone? for years my grandfather has pestered me to invent a
>pangolin. for his 70th birthday i finally did, but it wasn't that great of
>a model. i'd love to give him one that's well done. any leads?

Eric Joisel of France folded it. There's only one, AFAIK. It took 40 hours
to fold over 5 days. I highly doubt he wants to diagram it. You can see it
at <http://www.origami.vancouver.bc.ca/pangolin.jpg>.

----------------------------------------------------------------
Joseph Wu, Origami Artist and Multimedia Producer
t:604.730.0306 x 105     f: 604.732.7331     e: josephwu@ultranet.ca





Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 17:59:15 -0800
From: Joseph Wu <josephwu@ULTRANET.CA>
Subject: Origami in VISA ad

Apparently, there has been a whole series of Olympic advertisements for
VISA that feature origami. Does anyone know anything about them? For
reference, the ad with the bobsled team (which I asked about before) can be
seen at <http://www.origami.vancouver.bc.ca/bobsled.jpg>. Thanks.

----------------------------------------------------------------
Joseph Wu, Origami Artist and Multimedia Producer
t:604.730.0306 x 105     f: 604.732.7331     e: josephwu@ultranet.ca





Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 17:59:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Barbra0336 <Barbra0336@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: origami haiku

Ok, Rick you started this!!

emerging from humble folds,
graceful cranes
awake
bringing good fortune.

Barbara Ortiz





Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 18:57:09 -0500
From: "Daniel J. Byrne & Candice Bradley" <djbyrne@POP.ATHENET.NET>
Subject: Re: origami haiku
Hey -- somebody put the origami haiku on a web page!    They're great!

Candice





Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 19:36:32 -0500
From: acpquinn@PANTHER.MIDDLEBURY.EDU
Subject: Re: origami haiku
At 01:29 PM 3/3/98 -0800, you wrote:
>        pleat, pleat, pleat again
>        tesselations form the back
>        Joisel's pangolin

what? someone else invented a pangolin? are there directions? can i get a
copy from anyone? for years my grandfather has pestered me to invent a
pangolin. for his 70th birthday i finally did, but it wasn't that great of
a model. i'd love to give him one that's well done. any leads?

peace,
alasdair





Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 20:52:22 -0500 (EST)
From: DRAPY1 <DRAPY1@AOL.COM>
Subject: Origami poem, not haiku

I tried composing some haiku, but everything I came up with sounded like
something I wrote several years ago, so I'm posting that:

Meditation

origami

A paper mask of Buddha
cupped in a paper lotus:

Folding is a prayer,
not with breath but paper.

Bowed in prayer s posture
I fashion a butterfly,

perpetually still;
a flower without fragrance.

Falling short of perfection
forms a devotion,

an offering, from brief days,
of next to nothing but

this crane, this paper bubble.

--Dana Rapisardi
drapy1@aol.com





Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 21:21:27 -0500
From: Michelle Knight <mlknight@MINDSPRING.COM>
Subject: Re: origami haiku

At 05:59 PM 3/3/98 EST, Barbra0336 wrote:
>Ok, Rick you started this!!
>
>emerging from humble folds,
>graceful cranes
>awake
>bringing good fortune.

Barbara,

 If I remember correctly a haiku should have this
structure:

5 syllables first line
7 syllables second line
5 syllables third line

But it's a cool poem regardless. :)

Michelle

====================================================
Michelle Knight                            Main:  mlknight@mindspring.com
Winston-Salem, NC                   Backup: MLKnight01@aol.com
                                                          ICQ: 2083514

Everyone's ignorant, just on different subjects.  --Albert Einstein





Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 21:27:35 -0500
From: "Daniel J. Byrne & Candice Bradley" <djbyrne@POP.ATHENET.NET>
Subject: Re: origami haiku

If only we could
Add a handle to the moon
It would make a good fan!
(hokku -- rather than haiku -- by Sokan)

Here's one from a Basho story:

Add a pair of wings
To a pepper pod, you would
Make a dragonfly.

Not my own, of course.  (BTW, haiku were not always 5-7-5)

cb





Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 22:11:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Kenny1414 <Kenny1414@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: origami enthusiast survey

In a message dated 98-03-03 15:23:40 EST, you write:

> >       2) Was it a solitary pursuit or a collaaborative effort?
>  Oh, very solitary.

Correction:

Umm, at least until late college  Since then I have had the
good fortune to bounce ideas around with Joe Power
(without whom I would never have come up with the
Butterfly Ball), Steve Senzig (who showed me the
Magician's Dollar Bill Ring, and accidentally triggered
my first dozen $ ring designs), Jim Churn (who got me to
go to Convention one year), Rae Cooker (who has been
a source of inspiration and encouragement), Bill Dollar, and
many others.

Most of my folding is still of the "go off in a corner and
doodle" variety.

Oops, and I forgot to sign my survey. Sorry.

Aloha,

Kenneth M. Kawamura    ( kenny1414@aol.com )





Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 22:21:06 -0500
From: acpquinn@PANTHER.MIDDLEBURY.EDU
Subject: Re: origami haiku

At 09:21 PM 3/3/98 -0500, you wrote:
>At 05:59 PM 3/3/98 EST, Barbra0336 wrote:
>>Ok, Rick you started this!!
>>
>>emerging from humble folds,
>>graceful cranes
>>awake
>>bringing good fortune.
>
>Barbara,
>
> If I remember correctly a haiku should have this
>structure:
>
>5 syllables first line
>7 syllables second line
>5 syllables third line

i beg to differ...i think this is still a valid haiku -- keep in mind that
the 5-7-5 pattern is after translation into english. the real form of a
haiku is 5-7-5 in japanese, and if it translates into something else in
english, so be it.

the real point of a haiku is simplicity of form, not rigidity of structure.

here's one that refutes your point, i think, one of my favorites by Buson.

        Coolness --
the sound of the bell
                as it leaves the bell.

peace,
alasdair





Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 22:30:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Kenny1414 <Kenny1414@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: origami haiku

In a message dated 98-03-03 22:09:43 EST, Michelle Knight
pointed out a technical flaw in  Barbra0336's haiku.

May I suggest that the lines are the right length,
just put them in order, so:

bringing good fortune,
emerging from humble folds,
graceful cranes awake.

Aloha,
Kenneth M. Kawamura    ( kenny1414@aol.com )





Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 05:23:55 -0500
From: Jeff Kerwood <jkerwood@USAOR.NET>
Subject: Re: origami enthusiast survey

Kenneth M. Kawamura wrote:

> Steve Senzig (who showed me the
> Magician's Dollar Bill Ring, and accidentally triggered
> my first dozen $ ring designs)

Kenneth, what is the "Magician's Dollar Bill Ring" and what can we find
your $ ring designs?

Thanks, Jeff





Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 05:54:36 -0800
From: mSaliers <saliers@CONCENTRIC.NET>
Subject: Re: Jackstone, octahedral molecules.

People wrote ...

> > "The jackstone, though a marvelous piece of origami, doesn't resemble very
> > much what kids in my neighbourhood (in the States) called "Jacks" (which
 look
> > something like a model of methane, CH4 -- 3 pieces of metal with a bulb on
 one
> > end crisscrossing each other at right angles).
>
> > Roberto Morassi pointed out that this conformation was not methane, but I
> > cannot comment on this. I should, however, be intrested to know what
 molecule,
> > if any, does have this structure. Apart from this, I think that Mark means
>
> There are many examples of octahedral molecules, which have the shape you
> describe. These range from relatively simple molecules with one central atom,
> and six identical surrounding atoms - an example is sulphur hexafluoride, SF6,

...

I can see that my sleepy, not well-thought out chemical analogy
is quickly taking precedence over the original question. Which
was:

Did "Jacks" ever resemble the "Jackstone"

I can imagine a time when they (Jacks) would have been hand-carved
(not made of metal barbs).  This might have been eons ago, or maybe
only in isolated rural areas.  Any confirmations?

A more important origami question is, how do you do the last
step of the Jackstone without pinching the tips or collapsing
the middle?  Anyone have any secrets for final formation?
Maybe a tiny elf that gets folded inside the model and kicks
the sides out when you're done? (This would be called the
"Elf-Help" approach, of course).

Mark





Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 06:09:56 -0500
From: Kimberly Crane <kcrane@KIMSCRANE.COM>
Subject: Kim's Crane Special

Hello Everyone:
Just a quick announcement that Kim's Crane has its newest special
online.  You may view it at  http://www.kimscrane.com.
Sincerely,
Kimberly Crane





Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 08:02:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Kenny1414 <Kenny1414@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: origami enthusiast survey

Jeff Kerwood wrote:

>  Kenneth, what is the "Magician's Dollar Bill Ring" and what can we find
>  your $ ring designs?
>
The "Magician's Dollar Bill Ring" is how I remember
the ring from Adolfo Cerceda's book "Folding Money"
(copyr. 1963, and I hope still available from Magic Inc. in Chicago).

I only diagrammed a few of my $ ring designs. Ran out of steam.
Didn't help that one of my better diagrams got borrowed to copy,
and then lost. *sigh*.

Sending you a separate more detailed response, so as not to
clutter the mailing list.

Aloha,
Kenneth M. Kawamura (kenny1414@aol.com)





Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 08:40:39 -0600
From: Troy Tate <troy.tate@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: (NO) Message timing

I use JUNO to read my messages... This is the same
software I used with the previous listserv. I did not change
any settings between listserv changes.

I will check and see what possibilities there are
for changing the display order in JUNO. I just
thought this was curious since the change in
receipt order coincided w/ the change in listserv.

Happy folding!

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who have a "charisma-bypass".
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Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 09:12:40 -0500 (EST)
From: RPlsmn <RPlsmn@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: origami enthusiast survey

In a message dated 98-02-26 10:19:00 EST, you write:

<<    1) Who or What got you interested in learning origami?
      2) Was it a solitary pursuit or a collaaborative effort?
      3) Do you do it as a hobby?
      4) Did you learn it as a child?
      5) What models do you remember from childhood and are they commonly
 found basic origami books?
      6) Do you teach it to groups formally or informally?
      7) Are you a professional who makes a living from origami books,
 workshops etc.? I recognize some names
 like Joseph Wu in this category and I hope they will respond.
      8) Have you done family oriented workshops?
      9) Do you think origami could become as popular in America as it has
 become in Japan or do you think
 most Americans are too impatient?  ( I find many kids and adults don't have
 long enough attention spans to
 go beyond basic origami)
     10) I think it could be a good family activity if young parents could be
 turned on to the fun, educational
 and cultural benefits-What do you think?

 My original interest was to find out whether members might have learned
 origami from parents or other family
 members, as it has been done in Japan and other Asian countries.  I expected
 most responses from Asian
 Americans, Latin Americans, Anglicans,and people of Arab ancestry to respond
 because of what I've read on
 the history of origami.  I expect that computers and the information age
 will change the history of paper
 folding and speed its popularity across the world.

 Thanks in advance to anybody who takes the time to respond,
 Ria Sutter

  >>
1- the movie Blade Runner
2-solo
3-not as much as I used to
4-I knew the color changer, the cup, and the flapping bird.
5-(see 4)-yes
6-I tried to introduce it in a Church craft fair but nobody in the Church went
for the idea
7-no
8-my kids are 5 and 2 ... they like origami models, but I'm concentrating on
their coloring ... come to think of it, maybe I'll teach my 5 yr old the cup.
9-I think origami will not become a central part of our culture beyond what
Japanese Americans and other "Nationals" care to infuse into the mainstream.
Nobody seems to care if I like it, and it requires too much dexterity for our
elderly to learn to market origami at craft fairs, plus there's not the
influence of material suppliers.
10-I have come to this conclusion also, but the mind tends to fall into the
continuity of thinking origami would probably upset the capitolist structure;
or if  origami was brought into mass production it would lose its identity.-
Kids like it, but then again kids like putting firecrackers into the anal
orifices of frogs. Would the mainstream ever be brought to support it? I
believe whittling poses too much competition to origami to allow origami's
internalization into the center of American consiousness.





Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 09:13:20 -0700
From: Nigel Pottle <fowlerj1@CADVISION.COM>
Subject: Re: Origami in VISA ad

I saw the Visa Ad which had an origami figure skating duo. Quite
impressive. It appeared to be multiple pieced origami. The skirt of the
female skater was pleated. Quite an impressive piece. I wondered whether it
was all origami, or more like paper sculpture in some of its construction.
It would be great to know who the artist is and get to know some of their
secrets. I looked in the Globe and Mail the day Joseph described the
bobsled and could not find it. I wonder whether the Calgary edition didn't
use it. Thanks for scanning it, Joseph.

Nigel Pottle

----------
> From: Joseph Wu <josephwu@ULTRANET.CA>
> To: ORIGAMI@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Origami in VISA ad
> Date: Tuesday, March 03, 1998 6:59 PM
>
> Apparently, there has been a whole series of Olympic advertisements for
> VISA that feature origami. Does anyone know anything about them? For
> reference, the ad with the bobsled team (which I asked about before) can
be
> seen at <http://www.origami.vancouver.bc.ca/bobsled.jpg>. Thanks.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Joseph Wu, Origami Artist and Multimedia Producer
> t:604.730.0306 x 105     f: 604.732.7331     e: josephwu@ultranet.ca





Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 09:30:49 -0600
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Garc=EDa_Macias_Carlos?= <CGMACIAS@TELMEX.NET>
Subject: Re: origami haiku and meta-haiku

        Michelle Knight wrote:

        > If I remember correctly a haiku should have this
        >structure:
        >
        >5 syllables first line
        >7 syllables second line
        >5 syllables third line

        and then you got a meta-haiku:

        "five syllables first
        seven syllables second
        5 syllables third"

        (the unafolder didn't think this !)

        /8-) Carlos Garcia M.
        cgmacias@telmex.net





Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 10:21:37 +0000
From: Richard Kennedy <r.a.kennedy@BHAM.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Jackstone, octahedral molecules.

> "The jackstone, though a marvelous piece of origami, doesn't resemble very
> much what kids in my neighbourhood (in the States) called "Jacks" (which look
> something like a model of methane, CH4 -- 3 pieces of metal with a bulb on one
> end crisscrossing each other at right angles).

> Roberto Morassi pointed out that this conformation was not methane, but I
> cannot comment on this. I should, however, be intrested to know what molecule,
> if any, does have this structure. Apart from this, I think that Mark means

There are many examples of octahedral molecules, which have the shape you
describe. These range from relatively simple molecules with one central atom,
and six identical surrounding atoms - an example is sulphur hexafluoride, SF6,
which has a sulphur (S) atom at the centre, and 6 surrounding fluorine atoms
(F), to much larger molecules, in which both the centre and the surrounding
ligands can be larger units. If I was an inorganic chemist I could give some
examples from inorganic and organometallic chemistry! You would probably be
amazed at the beautiful molecules chemists can now construct - nearly as
beautiful as modular origami!!

Richard K
(R.A.Kennedy@bham.ac.uk)





Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 10:23:56 +0000
From: Richard Kennedy <r.a.kennedy@BHAM.AC.UK>
Subject: London shopping / books by Fuse-san, in Japanese

There are a few bookshops in London which sometimes have Fuse-san's
books in stock:

Japan Centre Bookshop, Piccadilly               0171 439 8035
Books Nippon, St. Pauls Churchyard              0171 248 4956
Asahiya Bookshop, Yaohan Plaza (Oriental City), Collindale.

Hope this helps,

Richard K
(R.A.Kennedy@bham.ac.uk)





Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 14:03:38 -0500 (EST)
From: Kenny1414 <Kenny1414@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: Jackstone, octahedral molecules.(NO)

In a message dated 98-03-04 08:56:10 EST, Mark wrote:

> A more important origami question is, how do you do the last
>  step of the Jackstone without pinching the tips or collapsing
>  the middle?  Anyone have any secrets for final formation?

Don't know. Blowing into it a la the Waterbomb doesn't seem
to work well.

>  Maybe a tiny elf that gets folded inside the model and kicks
>  the sides out when you're done? (This would be called the
>  "Elf-Help" approach, of course).

Actually, I think that would be a classical demon-stration of
the "Maxwell's Demon" approach (unfoldable object meets
irresistable pun?)

Aloha,
Kenneth M. Kawamura    ( kenny1414@aol.com )





Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 14:16:27 +0800
From: "Chamberlain, Clare" <Clare.Chamberlain@HEALTH.WA.GOV.AU>
Subject: survey
Comments: To: "Origami@MIT.Edu" <Origami@MIT.EDU>

It's a great idea to have a survey, but please get people to reply directly
to the author - I'm sure I'm not the only one who struggles to get through
the maze of colidng tips, computer gobbledegook (to me) and really
interesting stuff.  Yes the survey is fascinating, but takes a huge chink of
space - I'd really love to se a summary at the end, and maybe a 'folder'
(pun only partially intended) or similar to read individual responses.

On a more positive note, for those minimalist folders out there, I have
finally designed my first original - take a reddish brown sheet of paper
(rough textured if you like) and place flat on table colour side up - it is
now complete - the true Western Australian native orchid (they live entirely
underground).  I've seen them in the museum (or at least I think I
have..............)
clare





Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 15:50:13 +0000
From: Rachel Katz <mandrk@PB.NET>
Subject: Re: Origami in VISA ad
Priority: normal
Comments: Authenticated sender is <mandrk@mail.pb.net>

> I saw the Visa Ad which had an origami figure skating duo. Quite
> impressive. It appeared to be multiple pieced origami. The skirt of the
> female skater was pleated. Quite an impressive piece. I wondered whether it
> was all origami, or more like paper sculpture in some of its construction.
> It would be great to know who the artist is and get to know some of their
> secrets. I looked in the Globe and Mail the day Joseph described the
> bobsled and could not find it. I wonder whether the Calgary edition didn't
> use it. Thanks for scanning it, Joseph.
>
> Nigel Pottle

This model sounds as if it might be by Neal Elias (of "Last Waltz" fame.) Pat
Sisler of our L.I.F.E. group made them for our origami winter olympics
Christmas tree. The model was of two dancers from one sheet of paper; she added
skates. The instructions are in the out of print B.O.S. publication honoring
Neal Elias diagrammed by Dave Venables.

I've no idea who folded the models for the Visa ad but Ros Joyce did some
origami for I.B.M. which should be in print by now. They originally asked for
olympic symbols and then, after Ros created several models, they chose to use
only the flower she created which is the symbol of Nagano.

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





Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 16:39:03 -0600
From: "Askinazi, Brett" <brett@HAGERHINGE.COM>
Subject: Fuse Book found at Sasuga

I found the following book at Sasuga's website;
http://world.std.com/~sasuga/origami1.html is the link to the correct
page.

{ Origami Design }
Fuse, Tomoko [Chikuma Shobo] paperback 1995 78pp. isbn: 4-480-87264-7
$20.80

In Japanese. A book full of multi-dimensional models using multiple
sheets of paper. For fans of Fuse's unit origami, this book provides
many intricate new models to master

Does Anyone own this book ?  I am looking for another good modular book
to buy.  I already have Unit Origami and I am looking for something
along those lines.

Things I would like to know are;
are the models truly modular or compounds
are the models of polyhedra or objects
are the models made from square or non square paper
and a rough estimate of the number of different "units" in the book.

TIA

B R E T T





Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 16:48:45 -0500 (EST)
From: DRAPY1 <DRAPY1@AOL.COM>
Subject: More o-haiku

The following are either the product or the cause of my insomnia last night.
By my own criteria for haiku (see below) they have only one
qualification--they're brief.

essence of haiku:
brevity, intensity,
objectivity

origami s art:
simple or intricate forms
by implication

feet, fins or features
already there in the square
embryo paper

folder s magic act:
where the paper vanishes
there s a grasshopper

geometry shapes
space and time, frames the cosmos
--and this paper rose

Dana Rapisardi
drapy1@aol.com
