Platonic solids
I just finished my first goal for the weekend: make a modular origami dodecahedron. Tada.
Modular dodecahedron, Jun Maekawa's two-face pentagonal unit
SR-71 'Blackbird', Toshikazu Kawasaki.
Cameilla, Toshie Takahama.
Flying White Heron, Kunihiko Karasawa
Two roses, made for Lloyd's Valentine's Day, by Kawasaki.
The design is the simplified version, not complex, so there are only two layers of petals, not 3+. Still elegant.
Sarah modeling two other Kawasaki roses, made because we didn't want to finish a quantum set.
My bookshelf of origami stuff.
So during my psychology class, and my ACM class when it's not too hard (right now it's separable PDE's, it's OK stuff), and optics class when it's slow - during those classes I sometimes fold. I can take notes on one hand and pay attention while folding on the other hand. After I can't think anymore in the night with a set, I'll fold a model that I've already folded before. If I'm ambitious, I'll try something new. Right now, I'm folding out of Origami for the Connoisseur and Origami Omnibus, both by Kunihiko Kasahara. They're pretty tough, especially the level of the finishing.
For Lloyd House's Valentines' Day, we folded an origami rose for almost all of the girls in Lloyd (there are 56, including social members), in addition to a real rose, personailzed cards and a dessert night. My roommate Grant folded some pretty-looking hearts, and I folded a specialty item or two (a carp for someone who loves fishes, and a cameilla, I think). That's a lot of roses, considering each one takes me 30 mins. concentration, Hao 15 minutes. I folded maybe like 16 forms halfway, finishing about 9 of them. Hao did more - he must have finished about 20. I can tell both our finishing styles apart now.
I don't know how I find time to do origami - I think I just do all my work at the last minute. Which reminds me, I should do my Chinese homework.
Modular dodecahedron, Jun Maekawa's two-face pentagonal unit
SR-71 'Blackbird', Toshikazu Kawasaki.
Cameilla, Toshie Takahama.
Flying White Heron, Kunihiko Karasawa
Two roses, made for Lloyd's Valentine's Day, by Kawasaki.
The design is the simplified version, not complex, so there are only two layers of petals, not 3+. Still elegant.
Sarah modeling two other Kawasaki roses, made because we didn't want to finish a quantum set.
My bookshelf of origami stuff.
So during my psychology class, and my ACM class when it's not too hard (right now it's separable PDE's, it's OK stuff), and optics class when it's slow - during those classes I sometimes fold. I can take notes on one hand and pay attention while folding on the other hand. After I can't think anymore in the night with a set, I'll fold a model that I've already folded before. If I'm ambitious, I'll try something new. Right now, I'm folding out of Origami for the Connoisseur and Origami Omnibus, both by Kunihiko Kasahara. They're pretty tough, especially the level of the finishing.
For Lloyd House's Valentines' Day, we folded an origami rose for almost all of the girls in Lloyd (there are 56, including social members), in addition to a real rose, personailzed cards and a dessert night. My roommate Grant folded some pretty-looking hearts, and I folded a specialty item or two (a carp for someone who loves fishes, and a cameilla, I think). That's a lot of roses, considering each one takes me 30 mins. concentration, Hao 15 minutes. I folded maybe like 16 forms halfway, finishing about 9 of them. Hao did more - he must have finished about 20. I can tell both our finishing styles apart now.
I don't know how I find time to do origami - I think I just do all my work at the last minute. Which reminds me, I should do my Chinese homework.