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This review is a bit different. We tested different ways of preparing Unryu before folding different animals from the resulting sheets.
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Another chapter in the origami puzzles series. This time you have to fit four Zs in a square box, but first you have to fold them!
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Celebrate the Lunar New Year with Talo's "Happy Success Snake", aka H.S.S.
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Students at the University of Rochester fold 1000 cranes.
Liliana Badillo spoke about many interesting things with Tom Hull, such as his experience in designing modular origami, his inspiration, and the way he uses origami for teaching mathematics.
Thoughts on the work involved in creating and evaluating Origami Model Collections
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A report on the 2012 East Bay Origami Convention in Berkeley, California.
Diagrams for mittens designed by Jane Rosemarin with an improved locking mechanism.
You may well never heard of this paper, let alone folded with it. This review will reveal that it's definitely a paper you should try out - and soon!
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A rotationally symmetric solid curved fold, folded from a regular hexagon.
Diagrams for a modular star "Hilli" by Klaus-Dieter Ennen, as well as video instructions by Sara Adams
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Yet another rendering in paper of a wooden puzzle. Make four U-shaped units, and try to fit them into a box.
Learn how to fold the first in a series of many variations on a single star. This one has eight points, but you can achieve any number from 3 to 12 using this method.
Diagrams for Patricia Crawford's Dragonfly, as well as an on article how key models often inspire multiple designers.
This article gives insight into how a dragonfly, which was diagrammed in "Kan no Mado" presumably around 1845, made its way into Western publications.
Where else can you meet a bee keeper's family, a paper painter/banker, a robotics expert, a math professor, and a brilliant child (aged 14) named Stephano, all with the same passion except at the same hotel, in a small town in Italy...
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Diagrams for the 2012 OrigamiUSA Holiday Gift.
This action model is great for Halloween - and it's a double action: the bat flaps its wings, and produces quite some noise!
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Tom Hull describes the 2012 Autumn convention of the British Origami Society, which took place on Sept. 7-9 in Liverpool, UK.