David Brill Horse

October 6, 2018

Horse

Created by David Brill

Folded by Michael Sanders

Folded from (almost) 25” equilateral triangle

Not sure what kind of paper

Diagrams: BRILLiant Origami

This is probably only the third Brill horse I’ve folded. The first one many moons ago was a mess and became an origami basketball for the waste basket. The second one was my Sea Biscuit composition (Brill’s horse and rider for the fox hunt. See here. I decided to fold this one for my Brill St. George and the Dragon. I’ve been using a cheat by incorporating Montroll’s classic horse for the knight’s war steed. But yesterday decided I wanted a full Brill composition.

The Montroll horse remains my favorite mostly because it’s quick and easy for me with a good shaping look to it for the amount of work involved. It was the model that inspired me, when I saw Terry Hall fold one for a girl at my first Westcoast Origami meeting. But along with that, was Brill’s horse. That too inspired me to pursue origami as a little bit more than just a casual pastime when I saw his book, Brilliant Origami along with Montroll and Lang, at the Borders bookstore. This was around 2001-2002. Before that, I had never seen modern origami or anything so much more complex than traditional models. And the cover on Brill’s book of St George and the Dragon was whoa-inspiring.

I love the look of the Brill horse (especially the other classic horse of his for which I don’t believe there are diagrams made available); but I’m one of those origamists that’s been a bit lazy to cut and fold from anything other than squares and rectangles. Plus I think the Brill horse is a bit challenging to get the shaping just right. I had to refold the hind legs on this one a couple of times as the body looked a bit too short; then I overcompensated and made the body too long. Finally, I hit the Goldilocks zone and am satisfied with this model.

Now to go unearth my St George and the Dragon from storage boxes in the garage somewhere and retire the Montroll warhorse.

My fear is that I may have to redo a new knight because I think he may be too large to sit atop this Brill horse.

Old composition

David Brill's Robin

David Brill's i-Squash-ahedron

Brilliant Curlique Friday

Post by OhioPaper Folders.

For those able to make it up to San Francisco this coming Friday:

Come and meet Assia & David Brill from England. Join us for a booksigning for Assia Brill's new book CURLIQUES - Kinetic Origami and enjoy light refreshments, and a bit of folding fun! Feel free to bring your own copies of David's book BRILLIANT ORIGAMI (now out of print).

Friday at the Paper Tree
1743 Buchanan St. San Francisco, CA 94115

Inside-Out Logic

Reminiscent of David Brill's Double Star Flexicube (Something Joe Hamamoto is always making and showing off).

This definitely needs to be origamified:




 George W. Hart:

A fold-up, slice-and-dice dodecahedron and its complement.

With a 3D printer, you can make your own using the files here

Description:

This is an awesome folding dodecahedron and its complement. Together they form a cube. Each is made of eight parts hinged together with white adhesive tape.  To get a sense of it, see the video Inside-Out Logic on my YouTube channel.  The stl files are here and here.  You need to make four copies of each file and also four copies of the mirror image of each file.  From the video, you can figure out how they get assembled.

Any geometric origami wiz up for the challenge?


Hat tip:  Scott Cramer on the O-List

Have you folded a book, lately?

I have David Brill's "Brilliant Origami", but never got around to folding the books, until I happened upon Mari Michaelis' instructional videos. It was her bookcase design, though, that got me out of my malaise, and I just started folding to her videos.

Books

Bookcase.

I think there's a bookcase design in Origami Omnibus, as well (I'm too lazy to go look it up at the moment- the real book sits on a real shelf, in a real bookcase, gathering dust). But this 3-piece bookcase worked just fine. Loved using the wood print paper, finally (as well as the brick printed wall and wood print floor). Anyway, another charming model set.

Cherry Blossom Festival in Little Tokyo (Part II): Joe Hamamoto's Favorite Model

Joe is king when it comes to folding the David Brill doublestar flexicube. Here, he shows off one he folded out of a calendar.