> I also found this diagram, which is the same as the one you mentioned. > Balanced Heart (M Gardiner): > http://www.papercrane.org/articles/abcTV/heart.gif
Well just to clarify from my point of view, thanks Sy Chen for mentioning it. I would claim independent invention (be it reinventing the origami wheel) and publication (online and broadcast) of the design under discussion. My diagram sequence is slightly different to http://www.origami-fun.com/origami-heart.html but the model is the same. Certainly Young's action model preceded mine (published in 1996) though I was unable to be aware of it as Francis Ow's heart origami book was out of print at the time. I wrote to him to ask about using a different model of his in the Australian TV series I was shooting, but unfortunately he didn't respond, I did try. So I sat down and tried to find the simplest way to fold a heart that was two sided, and the result was the balanced heart, and I attributed my original inspiration to back to Ow. The heart on this site http://www.origami-fun.com/origami-heart.html is not attributed to anyone. The site is registered to a woman in Adelaide Australia, her site was registered in 2007, and I published a year earlier in 2006 http://www.abc.net.au/tv/sundayarts/txt/Sunday4June2006.htm Matthew Gardiner
