A parallel question are what are your favorite model are no longer being folded. So many origami meetings and conventions tend to be focused on learning the new models. I have heard some complaints that some of the same models are being taught over and over. What are your favorite models that are no longer commonly known or folded? I had tried teaching a Yoshizawa T-Rex model at the Philadelphia Chinatown meeting. It is a folded model that I thought was reasonably easy from a bird base. There were a number of RAT Folds (guestimates, judg ment folds or whatever term you use) that were harder to teach than learn from the diagrams. I have not seen other people teaching that model.
I do not remember seeing other people teaching Lewis Simon's Angel from an equilateral triangle. When I went to the Italian Convention in Vincenza, I taught a "Clicker" that was a Italian playground fold from their telephone cards. The diagrams were in an OUSA Convention book. They were the "IT' model of the convention that year - when they were made out of NYC MetroCards. The model is know in NYC circles as "Annoying Origami. " In the Grand Room (think large gym with lots of tables, 500-700 folders), there were about 100 teenagers (and a few adults) clicking them in BOTH hands. I have been told by older people that they used something similar a Normandy to communicate. The Italians did not know the fold anymore. Cell phones had eliminated the need for phone cards for the pay phones. They were amazed that it was an Italian model. Shortly after I first learned the model, I was told that MetroCards were inferior material since they were made from thinner plastic - hence not as loud. Both have the same dimensions length and width - the thickness and maybe type of plastic is the variable. Mark
