The Origami Forum

I'm no expert on this subject and actually, I failed all the time to circle pack. Well, now I'm reading the entire book for the second time and it's really nice that I'm understanding things a lot better now. The thing is, I just designed a model using circle packing (the picture is on the January c...

Unfortunately I didn't have proper white paper. Now I know what to do with those pink squares! Just put the color inside the model! ;) Yes, one uncut square. Also, my first design using circle packing. http://public.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pjNF7RutapnSJAlyON2x4_sSjci55xOsCG-hA5nG2Y8ZI3z3byt1mgAm_0fo...

Well, unicorns, dragons and many fantasy subjects are somewhat easy to find... maybe because almost everyone ask about them! Biological organisms... well, only when it comes to those amazing insects and insect like. In any way, I still want to help on such kind of project... Nevertheless, suppose th...

Use the Fujimoto Approximation. Don't even think of using something else, the fujimoto approximation works just as well and can be adapted to fit any situation: angle division, length division, ...other kinds of division too I suppose? The choice is yours: Go bisect freak or do some "math + referen...

I like the idea of having a "central" database of photos!

Origamidatabase is a central database but is geared more to indicate where to find diagrams for specific models.

Having a place to search for photos is really nice!

I don't know exactly how I can help, but I want to (help, that is)!

I don't know if I understood you correctly. What you want is to properly divide an angle in equal parts? Well, if that is the case, then this is what I do: 1 - try to compute the coordinates of a point that should work as a reference (pattern wise). 2 - once with the coordinates, I throw that into L...

Very nice. Yesterday I was just thinking about a post with a list like this!
Thanks for your efforts to retrieve the links/data!

Well, perhaps you can look into the "Y" module by Francis Ow. It allows you to assembly Tetrahedron, Octahedron and Icosahedron. Years ago I folded those modules like mad (the engineering colleagues liked the polyhedrons very much! :lol: ). Like Wolf said, I don't know how balanced the origami dices...

I know grid snapping is not good enough. I use that just as a helper. But when I need different angles I do use the Transform tool, as I mentioned before. For angle bisectors, I usually try to know the value of the angle in which I'm bisecting. After that, I just use the transform tool. As for showi...

Ahh, ok, yes, that's right! Well, in any way, you can change the grid size (Ctrl+Shift+D -> Grids tab -> set smaller X and Y spacing) and when you have a good zoom, you will have a different Grid Snapping angle, smaller than 0.5. The angle snapping (Ctrl), well... I really don't know if there is any...

That is a very, very useful tool, but it only goes to increments of .5 degrees and often that doesn't quite work (11.25 degrees, etc.). That's bizarre. I did rotate a diagonal line by exactly 11.25. I just "Ctrl+Shift+M" (Object->Transform) then selected the "Rotate" tab and... well, the rest is se...

In my opinion you are asking for which is the most beautiful star in the sky!
I simply can't answer that!
Well... so many models.. no, I can't.

Exactly, thanks to everyone who participated.

Oh, hi, Well, Linux itself is just a "kernel", this is, where all the core things happen. Then there comes the distributions (or Distros, as it's often called). I'm currently using Kubuntu (which is the Ubuntu but using a different Desktop - as I said, it's a completely different world). When someon...

Hey!
They are all great.
I can't say I like one variation more than the other!

I'm really looking forward for the diagrams!

Congratulations for the amazingly great work!