> On 2/5/14 3:47 PM, Rob Hudson wrote:
> > There's a version that starts with a square in La Era Nueva (I think), but
> > that looks like it's divided up into an 11x11 grid, and I'm not sure how to
> > tackle that.
>
> Just my buck-two-fitty:
> Divide into 3rds, then quarter each to get 12ths, then cut off two strips
> to get 11x11. At least that'll get you started with the fun part of folding it
> while someone else smarter'n'me sorts out the actual paper ratio. :-)
>
> -D'gou
>
>
When I read about someone having this sort of difficulty, I want to remind
about using a grid of evenly (equally) spaced lines. Align one edge of your
paper from gridline zero, on one corner, to gridline N (odd integer N=eleven,
in this case), on the other adjacent corner. Pick an even number 2M less than N
(2M=10 is good), and fold the lower corner to gridline 2M, creasing across the
paper. Now either M or N-M is even, so it's easy to crease that part of the
paper in half. Some folding sequence such as
[M,N-M]=[5,6], [8,3], [4,7], [2,9], [1,10], [6,5], [3,8], [7,4], [9,2], [10,1]
gets all N-1 creases to divide the paper into N sections. Crease each section
in 2,4,8 . . parts to get 2N, 4N, 8N . . sections.
This is such a standard technique, I wonder how it is so very frequently missed.
Thank you and have a great day!
SVBE (si vales, bene est)
The early bird may get the worm, sure, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
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Cheers, Ralph Jones
