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Origami Packaging

 This made me think of origami:

I can see more and more products incorporate origami folds into its packaging.

Tanteidan Convention Book 20 Unboxed

Mine arrived over a week ago. 

The Ringer

According to Ray Takeuchi, via O-List:

 In the September 2014 issue of MAGIC magazine on page 65 is an origami dollar bill magic trick by Blake Vogt.

EFFECT: The magician borrows a spectator’s dollar bill.  He folds it into a simple small rectangle.. Then it instantly changes into an origami shirt that can be handed out.

It sounds like it might be a similar trick to this classic....although I could (and probably am waaay off).


Looking up Blake Vogt (cited in the article for the bill effect), I found this:

I'm guessing it might involve using a magnet and possibly destroying (cutting up) a piece of a bill to fit the denomination over the ring (like this trick).

Read the reviews by people who purchased this trick.

Kawasaki's Armor(ed) Ball

Armor(ed) Ball
Created by Toshikazu KAWASAKI
Folded by Michael Sanders
6-piece modular 10" x 10" elephant hide (Wyndstone) paper

(Note: Top photo is the same model as the bottom one, right before the spiral twist gets pushed inside the layers).




The model is very sturdy, held together by the spiral twists.  Final result with this paper reminds me of a wooden puzzle.

Taught to me by Andrew Ting.  Andrew Ting learned it directly from Kawasaki-sensei at JOAS and taught it to me yesterday.
 
Diagrams:  Published in OUSA Convention Book 2011; and also the Kawasaki book, "Fancy Origami for Practical Use".

Plush Origami

By Blythe Creamer

Very charming look.

I'm sure some in the origami community would be interested in purchasing any handmade plush origami models she cares to make and sell.

5th Sunday at Carol Stevens

I brought Joe to Carol Stevens' 5th Sunday meeting.  No response from Yami.  Last month Joe told me he thinks Yami's lost interest in origami and has moved on.  At least for now.

There was a send out to local folders requesting donations of folded models for a play, "Animals Out of Paper" (link is post-dated for Sept. 4th, FYI), written by Pulitzer Finalist Rajiv Joseph.  Robert Lang is one of the contributors.  Andy Lowe, the production manager of East West Players, was stopping by to pick up model donations, according to Joel Stern.

David donated a beautiful pagoda and giraffe he designed.  Joe Hamamoto brought bags of modular stuff, including about 4 FITs.  That alone is enough to fill up a stage.

I folded a Montroll horse and David Donahue helped me fold this ridiculously large Max Hulme jack-in-the-box:

Carol Stevens stuck us outside because there was initially no room inside when we cut a 2 x 1 from the butcher paper.  Ridiculously large and unwieldy.  We called it "sweat-folding", as it was hot and David's sweat was dripping onto the paper.

Andrew Ting went to the JOAS Convention and had taken Toshikazu KAWASAKI's class on the armor(ed) ball. 

I folded one before the meeting was through, with Andrew's help; then another one when I got home last night.  Love it!

I learned from Sara Adams that the model is published in "Fancy Origami for Practical Use".  It is also apparently in the OUSA 2011 Convention book.


Andrew explains how Kawasaki-sensei had the class of 7 test their folding expertise:

Andrew's off to college and it sounds like next Sunday's at Marti's may be his last local meeting for a while.  Unfortunately, I probably won't make the meeting since I have a gymnastics meet with my girls.

Photos here.

NOA, issue 469

Heather:

Today I review this issue of Monthly Origami Magazine. In this issue are some great origami designs for September. This issue focuses on things from Moonlight Party and Respect Old People Day as well as a few things for early fall.

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Hat tip:  Kathy Knapp

At the denist

Yesterday I had to get a cracked tooth repaired.  While in the dentist chair, I folded the following:

Yoshizawa Exhibit

Hat tip:  David Brill

Shin Han-Gyo's Single Sheet Rose Box

Joel Stern was out of town, leaving Lauri and her son Zak, in charge.

Zak's theme for the meeting was on mythological creatures.

I discovered a rose box by Shin Han-Gyo that I wanted to try.  Since it was described as "single sheet", I had hoped it had a closed bottom.  It did not.  It needs a bottom portion.

Diagrams generously made available here, on Shin Han-Gyo's blog.

Hat tip:  Se-ik Kim

Photos of today's POP here (along with all from 2014).

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Origami Sighting in Scooby Do

Swapnil Das at the Origami Forum had written this a while back:

In the cartoon movie "Scooby Doo and the Ghost of the Black Samurai", Shaggy and scooby folds an origami Octopus and Velma realizes that the Destiny Scroll will show the way if you fold the scroll into an Origami Dragon. And the dragon was a neat model! Not any famous models, But at least it showed them!

I couldn't find a video online for this segment. 

Here's a transcript from the episode, Scooby Do and the Samurai Sword:

Origami Solar Array Prototype

After two years of research, the space agency has come closer to that goal by creating a solar array with a diameter of 8.9ft (2.7 metres) when folded and 82ft (25 metres) when unfurled.

The design, which looks like a flower blooming, was created by Nasa mechanical engineer, Brian Trease.

 

 

Mr Trease partnered with researchers at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, to pursue the idea that spacecraft could be built using origami folds.

Sending the solar arrays up to space would be easy, Mr Trease said, because they could all be folded and packed into a single rocket launch, with 'no astronaut assembly required.'

 

Panels used in space missions already incorporate simple folds, collapsing like a fan or an accordion.

One technique that has been used for an origami-inspired solar array is called a Miura fold invented by Japanese astrophysicist Koryo Miura.

When you open the structure, it appears to be divided evenly into a checkerboard of parallelograms.

With this particular fold, there's only one way to open or close it: Pull on one corner and the whole thing is open with only a tiny amount of effort.

Mr Miura intended this fold for solar arrays, and in 1995 a solar panel with this design was unfolded on the Space Flyer Unit, a Japanese satellite.

 

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The fold that Mr Trease and colleagues used is not a Miura fold, but rather a combination of different folds.

Mr Trease's prototype looks like a blooming flower that expands into a large flat circular surface.

Mr Trease envisions that foldable solar arrays could be used in conjunction with small satellites called CubeSats.

And he says the origami concept could be used in antennas as well. It could be especially appropriate for spacecraft applications where it's beneficial to deploy an object from the centre, outward in all directions.

Origami was originally intended for folding paper, which has almost no thickness, so Mr Trease and colleagues had to be creative when working with the bulkier materials needed for solar panels.

'You have to rethink a lot of that design in order to accommodate the thickness that starts to accumulate with each bend,' he said.

The art has been the subject of serious mathematical analysis only within the last 40 years, Mr Trease said.

There is growing interest in integrating the concepts of origami with modern technologies.

'You think of it as ancient art, but people are still inventing new things, enabled by mathematical tools,' he said.

 

 

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Origami Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

A few months back I was contacted by a studio representative for some models as it related to the new TNMT movie that just released.  I referred them over to a famous origami artist, who did some nice original pieces that did not make it into the film, apparently.

However, I just saw these models the other day, designed by Nicolás Gajardo Henríquez:

I'm not a fan, but these are pretty fantastic.

Visit his Flickr photostream for more TNMT and other great work.

Stampeding through the valleys and the mountains....

Some Montroll horses for gifts.

Novelty Business Cards

Marti knows Tim and recently saw him I think in NYC (she also went to London for another puzzle convention, recently).  So I wouldn't be surprised if that origami business card modular at the end was given to him, by her.  I'll have to ask her.

I'm still trying to think of a clever business card design....

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Hat tip:  Kathy Knapp on the Moneyfolders Unite group.

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