March 2012
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BARF: Bay Area Rapid Folders →
Ok, look past the painful web site and you will find imaginative, quirky models that make you a welcome house guest and a champion at parties. This is the deranged mind that created the Nuclear Crane with three heads (pt 1, 2), the Walking Boat in my icon, and my personal favorite, the Transvestite Puppet. My mom bought his first book, Origami to Astonish and Amuse and I love it.
February 2012
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2B || !2B: Spirograph Snowflakes (with 10 points) →
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Ok. For those of you unfamiliar with origami diagrams, dash-dash-dash lines mean valley fold (points away from you) and dash-dot-dash lines mean mountain fold (points towards you). For me, dot-dot-dot lines mean cutting.
For this you’ll need to start with a square of paper and have a pair of…
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260+ Free Beautiful Paper Texture Collection For... →
Aaaaah. Beautiful textures.
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A few rudimentary notes for novices of origami.
Okay, a lot of notes for the origami initiate.
Creasing and Precision
The key to pristine, clean models is simply being careful with your folds. However, there are some tricks that you pick up over time that go beyond perfectly square angles and exact centers, and the only way to master them is practice. A good teacher helps too.
One thing I’ve noticed is that if you’re folding...