This guide for intermediate to advanced paperfolders uses traditional origami bases as the springboard to incredible results.Written by a science teacher who is also a lifelong origami enthusiast,it features detailed diagrams for creating realistic images of 30 unusual animals,including jellyfish, grasshoppers, manatees, polar bears, and scorpions.
Origamics: Mathematical Explorations Through Paper Folding
The art of origami, or paper folding, is carried out using a square piece of paper to obtain attractive figures of animals, flowers or other familiar figures. It is easy to see that origami has links with geometry. Creases and edges represent lines, intersecting creases and edges make angles, while the intersections themselves represent points. Because of its manipulative and experiential nature, origami could become an effective context for the learning and teaching of geometry.
The infinite possibilities of paper folding inspired origami, a simple, traditional craft that appeals to both children and adults. This comprehensive guide to the materials, tools, techniques, symbols and skills behind the Japanese art of folding paper into wondrous shapes is illustrated with refreshingly simple step-by-step diagrams. Crafters of all ages can quickly learn to create the basic folds, from the beginner's box glider and fish to such advanced projects as Green Man and murex shell. THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ORIGAMI also takes readers on a whirlwind tour of the finest origami models being made around the world today.
his handsome book is aimed towards those with an intermediate skill level, but the origami basics included at the start of the book make it accessible to beginners. A number of beautiful models are offered, ranging from cubes to prisms to dodecahedra. As with the author's two previous books, Origami Inspirations provides step-by-step instructions and color distribution suggestions to create the more than 30 intricate designs presented. The book also includes a chapter featuring designs by origami artists from around the world, and these projects provide a happy complement to the author's own exciting inspirations in the rest of the book.
Multimodular Origami Polyhedra: Archimedeans, Buckyballs and Duality
Explore the link between paperfolding and mathematics with this unique, well-illustrated guide to creating a world of multifaceted wonders that draws on elements of crystallography. Photographs, diagrams, and charts show how to apply mathematical principles to the origami waterbomb base to create geodesic forms. Detailed instructions, clear diagrams.
