Dave said > considering the traditional flapping bird. Here is a design which has> very few folds, all essential to the design, which is elegant to fold,> and in which much of the surface area of the paper is preserved intact > in the finished design.(snip)
Ron replied These, of course, are your felt opinions, which many practitioners of origami in the international community do not necessarily share. *Those* words are, I would contend, pretty incontrovertable, or did you misquote? I also subscribe to the "journey" approach, at least to the point where it is every bit as important as the destination and often woefully undervalued. I don't think Dave is, for a second, dismissing the model... A fascinating thread, but let's keep it respectful please. For the record, I still call them "models" and myself a "paper- folder". I think the analogies with music are sometimes over- stretched and there's a danger of becoming pretentious, which wouldn't do at all ;)
