On 16/01/13 16.50, Gerardo @neorigami.com wrote:
The confusion is because I'm taking the symbols (arrows and lines) as the
step, in that sense it would be 2 and 7, but he understands the step as how
the paper is shown, in that case indeed the steps would be 3 and 8.
What do you think? Which of the two options should we leave in the diagrams?
I do understand this confusion. In a sense, the step is the transition
between the two images rather than any single of them.
When drawing diagrams where each drawing includes folding symbols for
the next step, my understanding is that the step belongs to the drawing
that has the symbols and (most) of the explanatory text. That would be
your "2 and 7" above. This even if the next drawing may have a text that
refers to the finishing of the step such as "Like this; note how flap A
now aligns with point B".
I strongly believe that this is conventionally so in almost all diagrams
I've seen: "Please repeat step 2" would refer to repeating the actions
described by the symbols and text included with the drawing with the
number 2, which depicts the model before doing step 2.
However, I have often made photograms, i.e. simple sequences of photos.
These do not (in my version) include symbols.
In this case, the explanation of the step is placed with the result
image. For an example in English, please view
http://papirfoldning.dk/en/diagrammer/Lilje02.html. And then I would
refer to the result image and its text as the step.
So in this case the "Please repeat step 2" would refer to the text
accompanying the image that shows the model after doing step 2. Of
course that image (and the accompanying text) is numbered 2.
You can imagine the confusion I ran into at the time where I added
symbols to an existing photogram. I had to shift all texts one picture
"to the left", as it was clear to me that the text would have to be with
the symbols, and that this would define the step.
This possible confusion of what the step refers somehow blending into
both the before and after drawings is also reflected in the list of
advices we all give to beginners: "When you do a step, remember to look
ahead to the next image".
Hope this sheds some additional light to you question,
Hans
Hans Dybkjær
papirfoldning.dk
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