The Origami Forum

what made you decide to fold a man with a dragon coming out of his bum?

it's a cool model though, even if i think it's a weird subject. i loved the snail too

yes. since my last post i did exactly that and made four bird bases... although for a long time i has missed out a crease and so itwouldnt lie flat. i then stretched each bird base, fussed with it for a while, trying to think what to make of it and gave up. interesting shapes though... a good learni...

OK doesnt matter i think ive done it. but it doesnt lay flat... is that right?

hiya. a little off-topic but the comment bout turning a blintzed frog-base into eight bird bases intrigued me, so i made a blintzed frog-base and couldnt find any way of doing it. is there a diagram anywhere or could u describe it a little for me? please?

thanks

go on, pleeease. diagrams would be cool. we'd all be really grateful

nice one.

i hate to think about it! a dodecahedron is hard enough!

i think you'd be lucky to find that shape from a single sheet. you can make it from hundreds with the sonobe module or using the plank module and some others too. i think the correct name for it is a truncated icosahedron. it's also known as a buckyball, after the molecule buckminsterfullerene My su...

the only thing i can think of is there is a japanese tradition of folding cranes for peace. there's a big thing about people leaving cranes around where the bomb dropped in hiroshima. somehting about a thousand cranes too. dont know the details. i've seen a model for a biplane but a) it's difficult ...

i just did a little research and it seems that: a) cubehemioctahedron is a mis-spelling, used in origami. i looked it up and google suggested another spelling and all the results under the mis-spelling were origami ones. it should be cubohemiocctahedron b) you are correct that the triangles should b...

firstly, i'd like to say i'm sorry to hear Lewis Simon is dead. I have only been back in origami for a year or so and i didnt know. Sorry if it caused any offence. secondly you are right that the triangles are not equilateral... i didnt know they had to be. i always imagined a cubehemioctahedron was...

Hiya I was looking at Lewis Simon's "twist cube" the other day and realised it had the lines on it ready to make a cubehemioctahedron. So i made a new one from foil with the extra creases necessary. here is the result: http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/6857/cubehemioctahedron6kt.jpg I suppose i wou...

surely it's only a green dragon if you make it from green paper?

i've found out who invented it before me.

I was flipping through neal elias's misc folds 1, and found the grand piano. much better use of the technique, but essentially the same way of making the legs.

sonobe modules could make a roughish bridge.