LaVin’s “Crane Folder”
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From**: created for the contest (details below), no diagrams
Why: MIT’s Office of the Arts held a juried Student Origami Contest/Exhibition this February, and I (along with other MIT-affiliated Boston-area origamists Jeannine Mosely, Elsa Chen, Erik Demaine and Martin Demaine) were the judges. Aside from being great fun for we judges, the event brought together a number of current students who are very interested in Origami, and they’re resurrecting the MIT Origami Club (OrigaMIT) with Erik as faculty advisor. Yay!
A couple of days before the opening awards meeting and exhibit opening, we realized it would be nice to have something to put the actual award certificates in. I volunteered to try and come up with something, and this was the result.
I certainly can’t claim credit to the idea of folding a crane attached to something - but I’ve not seen this particular way of putting such a thing together. You basically fold in the top and side, get a preliminary base in the corner, cut some slits to free up some paper, and fold half a crane out of it. Actually easier to do than to describe…
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Mosely’s “Sponge” pieces
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Jeannine Mosely has been working on building a level-3 Menger Sponge (Details at Wolfram Mathworld) for quite some time, now. My buddy Elsa Chen and I helped her drive down chunks of it to one of the OrigamiUSA conventions in New York, once.
Anyway, Jeannine has decided that she wants to finish the thing, so I was helping her out and folding some cards to use in the construction. It’s a fine thing to keep one’s fingers busy while sitting in front of the TV. That’s one box worth (500, I think) of business cards, folded into sponge-bits.
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Fuse’s “6-Piece Icosahedron”
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Created by: FUSE Tomoko
Published in: Origami Tanteidan Magazine No. 77 by the Japan Academic Origami Society.
Think about it. It’s a 20-sided figure folded from only 6 units! How cool is that?
Sorry for the lurid colors in the example photo - I wanted to pick contrasting colors so it was easy to see the coloring, and these are what was leftover in the pack of paper I had. (I also had a miserable cold when I was working on it, so I’ll blame it on that. Yeah, that’s it, the cold medication made me color blind!)
The units for this modular are very odd, and the assembly process involves more weaving than average for a geometrical modular. The model, once folded, is extremely sturdy, owing to the multiple layers that overlap at any given area, and good slots to tuck all the tabs into.
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Vann/Mosely’s “Open-Faced Cube”
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Created by: Valerie Vann, Jeannine Mosely
Published in: unknown
This was mentioned on the O-list, and looked interesting.
It is interesting, if a bit tricky to assemble. I had trouble getting everything to fit, and getting tidy corners. (Plus the biz cards I used were a bit old, and cracked somewhat when I folded them.) Apparently it was independently discovered by both Valerie Vann and Jeannine Mosely.
I asked Jeannine about it, and it turns out you have to be careful fitting the tabs inside so that the various pieces don’t interfere with each other when you’re sliding things together. If you do it right, the corners get tighter, and you don’t get the little holes like the ones you can see in the photo.
The diagrams for this used to be online; if anyone knows where Valerie Vann’s modular origami page went, do let me know!
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