Thus spake "Origami on behalf of Meenakshi Mukerji"
<origami-boun...@lists.digitalorigami.com on behalf of meen...@gmail.com> on
3/4/17, 9:16 AM:
> From: Anna <origa...@gmail.com>
> Step 7 shows a blintzed bird base and even says so. No idea whether the
> base from step 10 has a name on its own. The numeration of the steps is
> very peculiar though.
>>>
[MM] Thanks for your reply, Anna. Yes, step 7 says Blintzed Bird Base but I
asked anyway because I have seen different definitions on the internet. …
unambiguous numbers :) It would still be interesting to know who was the first
one to come up with what is in Step 10. The steps leading to it are very
natural and there may be multiple people who arrived at it independently. Any
clues/pointers would be appreciated! These are the times when I miss David
Lister...
<<<
Randlett names step 7 the Blintzed Bird Base in both The Art of Origami (1961,
see page 145) and The Best of Origami (1963, see page 126). Step 10 is the
basis of George Rhoads’s Bug, presented in Best Of Origami (it appears as step
3 on page 130). That’s the earliest appearance I’ve seen of step 10 explicitly.
Rhoads explored the Blintzed Bird Base extensively, so you see several
different treatments of it in his 1950s/1960s work.
It should be noted that Yoshizawa explored multiply blintzed Frog Bases back in
the 1950s (his 1959 Cicada is made from what amounts to two Blintzed Frog
Bases), so there’s a good chance that he created the BBB and “step 10” as part
of that exploration. Since he didn’t give instructions for his more complex
creations, though, that must remain supposition.
Robert
