Paper folding

[rubah]

I used to make paper boats nearly that small. of course they're less complex, but it was just with my fingers?

[fire_of_avalon]

I...I can't make paper airplanes

But my friend Jess is making those stars. Where when you make a thousand of them you get a wish. Yeah.

*looks at Unne's stuff*

[Rengori]

But my friend Jess is making those stars. Where when you make a thousand of them you get a wish. Yeah.

I think those are supposed to be cranes.

[Shlup]

I can fold a crane and a person. I have folded more things, but those are the only things I can fold easily and from memory. I learned when I was about six.

I cannot do those little stars foa mentioned though. I just can't do 'em. I have the paper and I know I'm folding it right, but they never come out looking like a star. xP

[Pant Leg Eater from the Bad World]

oh crap. I have to do a origami project for geometry. ok, im gonna go start it, any ideas on what i can make.
p.s. damn unne is good

[theundeadhero]

I like paper frogs.

[Del Murder]

I think Origami is cool. I should try to make something some time.

[Slade]

Back when i was little, i would make origami dinosaurs. I used to get this book out all the time from the school library about how to create them. I would always re-issue it whenever i had the chance. Those were the days. Wish i knew how to do them now. All I can do now are darts, bombs and those weird little game things that have numbers and colours.

[Dr Unne]

Is the dragon in flight on a website, or in a book? If a site, can I have a link?

Origami rules. You can take it to any level you want. Cranes and fishes and boats, or some truly crazy stuff. I can fold a checkerboard out of one sheet of paper. Cuckoo clock, guy playing a piano, guy playing a violin, 12 species of beetles, biplane, ship in a bottle, matchbook with matches in it, frog with 4 toes on each foot, etc. In addition to a thousand kinds of animals, animals being the more traditional sort of thing to fold. Name it and someone has folded it out of one square of paper somewhere though. Sometimes it frightens me. What's on my site is the smallest tip of the iceberg of what's possible. I have a whole book just on making fish. Another just on making insects. One whole book on folding an anatomically correct t-rex skeleton (that's on my site...)

It's an easy way to impress people too, as this thread shows. Origami is not difficult. There are about 8 folds, that's it. If you can read directions and follow them in order and go slowly and carefully, you can make 90% of the origami you'll find in books. Some of it takes some skill, but not a lot.

And it's cheap; you just need paper. They sell origami paper, but you can use any paper if you don't have it, and 100 sheets is like $5 anyways. Lacking paper, you can fold money. I can make stuff out of dollar bills (giraffe, crab, flower, basket, eyeglasses, birds of various sorts, dinosaur, tetrahedron...). Fun to leave as a tip for waitresses.

It's stress relief too. It's a good way to exercise the right half of your brain. Benefits of which: relaxation and making time pass quickly.

Modular origami is useful to make really nice things without requiring much/any skill. Just lots of patience of folding the same thing over and over. If you like math, look into the relationship of origami and fractal geometry too.

[qq=IBCrazZ]oh crap. I have to do a origami project for geometry. ok, im gonna go start it, any ideas on what i can make.[/qq]

http://www.geocities.com/anniefolds/TSU2.html

Make the 30-unit one (looks like a lesser stellated icosahedron to me). I just made one yesterday. 3 or 4 hours, and you're done. You don't even have to pay attention. I folded it while watching a movie.

[Yuffie514]

:fpninja: paper shuriken!
:fpninja: paper blowgun!
:fpninja: enemy secrets concealed within paper swans!

the best of my arsenal! prepare to be paper-cutted!

are sticky bombs considered origami?

[Nod]

I used to be a member of an Origami Club; but it folded.

[Itsunari 2000]

Is the dragon in flight on a website, or in a book? If a site, can I have a link?

Origami rules. You can take it to any level you want. Cranes and fishes and boats, or some truly crazy stuff. I can fold a checkerboard out of one sheet of paper. Cuckoo clock, guy playing a piano, guy playing a violin, 12 species of beetles, biplane, ship in a bottle, matchbook with matches in it, frog with 4 toes on each foot, etc. In addition to a thousand kinds of animals, animals being the more traditional sort of thing to fold. Name it and someone has folded it out of one square of paper somewhere though. Sometimes it frightens me. What's on my site is the smallest tip of the iceberg of what's possible. I have a whole book just on making fish. Another just on making insects. One whole book on folding an anatomically correct t-rex skeleton (that's on my site...)

It's an easy way to impress people too, as this thread shows. Origami is not difficult. There are about 8 folds, that's it. If you can read directions and follow them in order and go slowly and carefully, you can make 90% of the origami you'll find in books. Some of it takes some skill, but not a lot.

And it's cheap; you just need paper. They sell origami paper, but you can use any paper if you don't have it, and 100 sheets is like $5 anyways. Lacking paper, you can fold money. I can make stuff out of dollar bills (giraffe, crab, flower, basket, eyeglasses, birds of various sorts, dinosaur, tetrahedron...). Fun to leave as a tip for waitresses.

It's stress relief too. It's a good way to exercise the right half of your brain. Benefits of which: relaxation and making time pass quickly.

Modular origami is useful to make really nice things without requiring much/any skill. Just lots of patience of folding the same thing over and over. If you like math, look into the relationship of origami and fractal geometry too.

[qq=IBCrazZ]oh crap. I have to do a origami project for geometry. ok, im gonna go start it, any ideas on what i can make.[/qq]

http://www.geocities.com/anniefolds/TSU2.html

Make the 30-unit one (looks like a lesser stellated icosahedron to me). I just made one yesterday. 3 or 4 hours, and you're done. You don't even have to pay attention. I folded it while watching a movie.

Incredible.Some really impressive stuff you have there.

[Nod]

Ok, my dreadful earlier joke aside, this thread now has me interested in Origami. Especially as folding up money will give me something for my hands to do rather than smoking cigarettes.

[omnitarian]

I used to make elephants out of dollar bills all the time, but then I lost the book that taught me how.

Here's an online version, although it gets muddy around step 4. Expect a few gimpy elephants...

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

The only thing I can do by memory is a rose