Ignore a lot of the kimono stuff on the top of the page (or not, I guess it’s your call) and scroll down to the bottom and check out these amazing hand-cut kanji stencils. not related to origami in any way, but still very neat if you’re into paper in general. I’m a paper freak, so… yeah.
This came in as a post to the Origami-L mailing list, from Anna of Origami Austria (Origami Österreich). Apparently at one of their meetings, they discovered a “faster” way to fold the traditional crane (also known as a tsuru). Essentially, it involves using a double-rabbit-ear fold to speed up the folding process- if you’re good at eyeballing this sort of thing, it should really make things easier. I haven’t tried it yet, but it looks promising. They also put together a very nice PDF for it. (this is the english version- follow the link to their site above if you want the German PDF.) new way of folding the traditional Origami Crane
Estrela 3DOriginally uploaded by mawelucky. Jane (mawelucky on flickr) takes her great new innovative star collapse to new heights here. I can’t say enough about how cool this particular fold is- she had sent me a similar fold previously, which was also ingenious in this same way. it’s really some new and different thinking on the problem, and it just goes to show that many people looking at the same thing see it differently. so now all of us who fold 3/6 tessellations have yet another great move to add into the mix! I suggest you folks give this a try- ask Jane to email you her nice instructional document!
The Fitful Flog: The Three Card Monte Philip has a seriously cool “wallet” fold, which gives you a hexagonal folding wallet which holds several ID cards/credit cards/whatever. The best part, of course, is that his final version looks like a set of playing cards! now that’s just crossing the line into utter geek cool factor. (or at least in my opinion.) well, really the bestest (yes, I said bestest) part is that he took the barcodes from his frequent purchaser cards and printed them onto the thing, so he doesn’t even need to carry those things around with him. He’s got CP’s posted; they look swell using Adobe Acrobat Reader on my PC, but they are non-visible using Preview on my Mac (10.4.3). ack! great work! thanks for sharing! oh, and they are CC licensed, so you don’t have to worry about the origami harpies chasing you down and hounding you for giving away the CP to people. double great!
Industrial origami Found via future feeder. very interesting process; looks like they have devised some methods for folding things from a single piece of sheet metal, including things like jack stands, boxes, 1U server chassis, etc. I’d love to watch the folding process for some of these, especially if it is completely roboticized.
