[Origami] Lock on the waterbomb/balloon

Hey ... Have a question for you all ... I have always called the lock on the waterbomb where you simply fold the little triangular flap straight into the pocket, which leaves a bit of the flap still outside the "Chinese" lock. The lock where you fold the flap along the edge of the pocket, then the

Re: [Origami] is that a waterbomb in there?

> On 18 Oct 2017, at 2:40 pm, Robert J. Lang wrote: > > Thus spake "Origami on behalf of Matthew Gardiner" > > on 10/18/17, 4:15 AM: > > > For instance, I’m sure that Fujimoto-sensei

Re: [Origami] is that a waterbomb in there?

On 10/18/17 2:15 AM, Matthew Gardiner wrote: I’ve been following the path of first publications of a few things, namely the natural origami patterns ie. patterns formed through buckling pressure - Yoshimura, Miura, Kresling, Waterbomb etc… I'm sure you must know the Ron Resch video which

Re: [Origami] Meditations on a Waterbomb

I have added, with permission, the full text of Kenneth Kawamura's 1977 booklet Geometrical Compound Origami or Meditations on a Waterbomb to my site at http://www.origamiheaven.com/historyindex.htm This documents the modular discoveries of Kenneth and Joe Power during the early 1970s. The 6

Re: [Origami] Fwd: The name waterbomb? (FWD for Yahoo user Laura Rozenberg)

I have also seen science experiments where water was boiled in a waterbomb (bunsen burner, gauze mat) - the water stops the paper from burning - quite surprising I, on the other hand taught my kids to make them as a fun activity on a hot afternoon, with a cool watery payoff - they throw full of

Re: [Origami] Fwd: The name waterbomb? (FWD for Yahoo user Laura Rozenberg)

On Jun 13, 2015, at 6:04 PM, Anne LaVin anne.la...@gmail.com wrote: PS: I also always wondered why that name, where it originated. I thought it was called a water bomb base because it is the base you use for the water bomb model/blown up cube, which one can actually fill with water and

Re: [Origami] Fwd: The name waterbomb? (FWD for Yahoo user Laura Rozenberg)

book Folderier (Foldings) calls the model Tærningen (the cube). A few later books do not include the model. Not until Robert Harbins Origami, translated and published in Danish 1968, it is called Vandbombe (Waterbomb) in origami books, though it sadly fails to explain why. My own 2008 book

Re: [Origami] Fwd: The name waterbomb? (FWD for Yahoo user Laura Rozenberg)

(Forwarding a reply for Yahoo user Laura sea4...@yahoo.com, please reply to the list or to her, not to me!): On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Gerardo @neorigami.com gera...@neorigami.com wrote: So in a nutshell, where does the waterbomb name come from, in the case of the traditional origami

Re: [Origami] Fwd: The name waterbomb? (FWD for Yahoo user Laura Rozenberg)

65 years ago, when I first learned origami in first grade at Whittier Elementary School in Berkeley California, water bombs were literally water bombs. We folded them, blew them up, filled them with water (not always totally successfully) and threw them. Messy, wet and really fun. Louise

[Origami] Fwd: The name waterbomb?

Hi, I'm currently writing an article about names in origami. That got me thinking about the traditional model the waterbomb (is it one or two words?). I learned about that model when I was really young, although I didn't learn how to fold it for many many years. Anyway, When I learned about it I