Scratching around for something to fold, I stumbled across a 2-part modular that I had filed in the “must try” pile:
LED displays are part of my past, little blocky symbols that were all the rage before screens went pixels and graphical. Continue reading
I was reading a paper on Ladybirds, and it turns out they have remarkable wings. What makes them truly remarkable is they fit beneath tiny cup-shaped hard wing covers. Until recently, scientists had no idea how that mechanism worked:
When ladybirds are about to take off, they lift their wing covers and then inflate complicated pleated wings that flip out from their zig-zag folded position.
When they land, they put their wing covers down first then retract their wings under them. This mechanism is bewildering until you look at an origami maquette which explains the natural zig zag hinge. Continue reading
Cruising through my copy of “Origamania” by Lionel Albertino, I came across a little creepy crawley I had not folded:
This scorpion is pretty clever – remarkably (by other scorpion standards) simple really for the effect, it efficiently creates the legs and leaves a nice body that can be made into a tail. Continue reading
Continuing on the theme of butterflies, I could not go past this one, designed by Robert Lang:
Taken from “Origami Insects II”, it is one of a number of creepy crawlys that I have yet to fold from this book. Continue reading
As any cat owner knows, cats seem to be able to tie themselves in knots, and this pose is fairly typical of a stretch pose:
Well, I say cat “owners” but in reality, cats own and train us to serve them, it is in the nature of cats really. Continue reading
