Now in class we are doing algorithms and programming, and a simple logic exercise we are working on is a visual game of Rock, Paper, Scissors:
With relatively few folds, and small squares of paper (4 cut from an A4 page), I managed to fashion 3 hand gestures indicative of the conventional game gestures.
Hope you like them. I shoulda done Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock though – would have been waaaaay cooler.
A simple model, nice and demonstrative of the actual animal it models, a dragonfly has characteristic wings and abdomen:
I like this model, it is a relief from the usual paper torture, hope you like it too.
wow, no I mean WOW! This is a design that, on paper at least, looked impossible. Piotr Pluta designed a way of paper torture (involving 4 lots of 8-way accordion sinking) to extract 6 limbs and 3 body segments typical of an insect – quite honestly I was convinced it could not be done.
…so I cheated and gave parts of it a practice try first – sure I screwed it up (on what are unreasonable first-fold rules) but I learnt something about the successful fold. That said, I am mightily pleased with this one:
Photocopy paper does not withstand being bent so much – at the centre of the thorax (middle body segment) you can see the square’s centre point – a much creased and slightly frayed hole forming from bend fatigue, otherwise it held up remarkably well to a very difficult fold.
You can see the degree to which the paper has been massaged and tucked away to take an A4-cut square and as if my magic make all the requisite parts of the ant, right down to the mandibles and the puffed out abdomen.
You might like to have a go at this – it is not a beginners fold (and indeed there are aspects of it that I have still to master), but the design is ingenious and worth the time it takes to complete : ant_diagram
An odd tradition I have inherited is to say “white rabbits” as the first thing uttered at the beginning of a month, hence the inspiration of today’s model:
Not real sure where that came from, or why a sane, rational adult would do that, but it is ingrained and part of my monthly ritual.
This model is actually a cute variation of a waterbomb (turn it over and it looks just like one) – nice and simple, suggestive of a rabbit without the nit-picking detail of folding every whisker, which is a good thing too as I am buggered after a long day teaching.
It is my SECOND rabbit, different model, so all is fair in love and paper folding I figure.
Have a go yourself: http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-fold-an-origami-bunny-rabbit
Two views of the same berry, a nice variation of the time-tested and much tossed water bomb base. Made with a square cut from half an A4 page, the smaller you make these the more realistic the shape.
Quite happy with the hull (or calyx) although some of my more nerdier botanist friends will argue that it should have 5 subdivisions not 4.
