Thursday, July 28, 2005
OrigamiBlog!
I made this at the Origami festival a couple weeks ago. It's a pretty neet little gewgaw, especially because it rotates!
The guy that was there teaching this said, however, that if you do the same thing with double the original folds, you end up with a square-shaped deal, as opposed to the triangular-shaped thing above. Yeah, it's a ring, but it's a *triangular* ring. You'll see.
So one week, while I was particularly uninterested in paying attention to my class, I started folding the 2x version. He recommended using larger paper. I just did smaller folds, because I don't have any larger origami paper. I even documented the process so you can see *just how crazy* you have to be to take up origami as a hobby.
Step one: Fold paper into 16 different lines
Step two: Good, now fold it the other way 16 times
Step 3: Whew, hard work. Now fold all the diagonals, both ways!
Step D: Man, my eyes! Okay, now loop the thing up and make this:
Step X: What? Good! Now repeat that over and over...
...down the whole line...
Step &: Whew, magnificent!
Okay, good! Now repeat that whole thing three more times and join them.
Yeah, I said crazy, didn't I?
Anyway, I managed to finish it off and get everything connected. The connecting was, as it usually is with modular origami, the hardest part, but I like modular origami since there aren't that many folds...okay, there are a *lot* of folds, but they don't all build on each other. The second fold on the first fold, the third on the second, the fourth on the third, so that the *microscopic* error you made at the beginning becomes a *heinous gash* at the end. It's not easy, but it's a fun way to show off to friends and family.
-N
I made this at the Origami festival a couple weeks ago. It's a pretty neet little gewgaw, especially because it rotates!
The guy that was there teaching this said, however, that if you do the same thing with double the original folds, you end up with a square-shaped deal, as opposed to the triangular-shaped thing above. Yeah, it's a ring, but it's a *triangular* ring. You'll see.
So one week, while I was particularly uninterested in paying attention to my class, I started folding the 2x version. He recommended using larger paper. I just did smaller folds, because I don't have any larger origami paper. I even documented the process so you can see *just how crazy* you have to be to take up origami as a hobby.
Step one: Fold paper into 16 different lines
Step two: Good, now fold it the other way 16 times
Step 3: Whew, hard work. Now fold all the diagonals, both ways!
Step D: Man, my eyes! Okay, now loop the thing up and make this:
Step X: What? Good! Now repeat that over and over...
...down the whole line...
Step &: Whew, magnificent!
Okay, good! Now repeat that whole thing three more times and join them.
Yeah, I said crazy, didn't I?
Anyway, I managed to finish it off and get everything connected. The connecting was, as it usually is with modular origami, the hardest part, but I like modular origami since there aren't that many folds...okay, there are a *lot* of folds, but they don't all build on each other. The second fold on the first fold, the third on the second, the fourth on the third, so that the *microscopic* error you made at the beginning becomes a *heinous gash* at the end. It's not easy, but it's a fun way to show off to friends and family.
-N
Comments:
Is just a...y'know...thing. Made out of paper. Could make a good bracelet, as long as you don't touch anything with it. :)
Origami doesn't need an excuse. It just has to be *TEH AWS0M333!!!*
-n
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Origami doesn't need an excuse. It just has to be *TEH AWS0M333!!!*
-n
