I came across the term "phone folding" when I was searching on-line and
really like it and
dare I say, what an excellent verbal description of a phone Robert has
provided us?
I was also very glad to find and link to other verbal instruction sites,
notably
that of Rikki Donachie
https://itsjustabitofpaper.co.uk/
and the French site
http://www.aveuglami.fr/AveuglamiWeb/fichesNV/nvR03-modeles.php?acces=NV&bckgcol=FFFFFF&fsize=12pt&charcol=000000&fweight=plain
with an astounding number of models to choose from.
Of course there may be a language barrier as well for those who are not
able to understand French, but Google Translate works quite well once
you get used to the way it translates certain phrases.
Lindy
On 2023/01/30 21:46, Robert Lang wrote:
So cool to see the resources available to blind folders! Back in the
day, verbal-only instructions were called “telephone origami” because
they could be taught over the phone. (For the younglings out there, a
“telephone” was sort of like an iPhone, except it had two parts
connected by a curly wire and you couldn’t carry it very far.) My
favorite telephone origami was Alice Gray’s rendition of Fred Rohm’s
“Star of David,” which we reprinted in OrigamiUSA’s The Fold a few
years back:
https://origamiusa.org/thefold/article/star-david-moneyfold-fred-rohm
Robert
On Jan 30, 2023, at 7:32 AM, Anna via Origami
<origami@lists.digitalorigami.com> wrote:
Lindy wrote about The Accessible Origami Project -
www.accessorigami.com <http://www.accessorigami.com/>
Thank you Lindy for pointing out this project. There are quite a
couple of blind folders out there. It is good to know a great
resource like this one.
It is very true, that text only instructions need to carry a lot more
information that texts that are only meant to accompany pictures. I
guess it would be a good exercise for everyone teaching Origami to
write a set of text only instructions. <snip> Maybe [ChatGPT] can't
give you proper phone folding instructions yet, but it might still be
able to help us create new Origami designs. In any case, the future
just came a step closer.
Best regards, Anna
Am Mo., 30. Jan. 2023 um 14:24 Uhr schrieb Lindy van der Merwe
<steph...@iafrica.com>:
I have not worked with the app yet, but find this topic very
interesting
since, as a totally blind folder, I have been creating text-only
instructions for a while now.
You can find them at www.accessorigami.com
<http://www.accessorigami.com/>
From the main page there is a link with some other sites and
authors as
well. I think there may be a difference between instructions that
don't
rely on pictures, diagrams or other visual input at all, and
those text
instructions that refer to some accompanying visual elements.
I think this might be applicable to lots of "how to" questions one
could ask from the app?
Kind regards.
Lindy van der Merwe - Cape Town, South Africa
The Accessible Origami Project - www.accessorigami.com
<http://www.accessorigami.com/>
