On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 Meenakshi Mukerji on her February update wrote: "I have been folding for so many years but never a Yoshizawa. I just fixed it! I was surprised to find out that the collapsing technique used in the Sunflower, which I have seen in so many designs, is originally his. I never knew it existed so long ago and I stand corrected"
Just wanted to comment on the techniques to do this, since I know 2 but use only one and maybe start an interesting conversation. Andrew Hudson describes the "original" method in the caption for his model "Clock Sinistra" http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahudson/2764331534 in which basically you form a waterbomb like shape (despite the polygon having a diffente number of sides than 4), then sinking the tip and then opening the model and squashing the center polygon. The method I use (I learnt it from either Christianne Bettens or Dassa Severova) consists of bringing the center of each side to the center of the model and collapsing the model, then turning the model over and bringing the center of each side to the center of the model and then partially unfolding step one. I think this method produces (at least in my personal case) a better result since the opening and squashing of the first method produces some inaccuracies. So does anyone know of other method to do this? Which one do you prefer and why? -- Jorge Jaramillo
