On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 5:38 AM, Dave Mitchell dave.mitch...@virgin.net wrote:
Outside origami 'elegant' is often used to mean 'clean' ... as in 'a chair
has clean lines'. It doesn't matter how the chair was made. You are
describing a quality of the finished result.
We're saying the same
Dave Mitchell wrote:
The reason is because the meaning of elegance in origami is different
(though folders who don't appreciate this often misuse the word). In origami
elegance is a quality of the way in which the result is arrived at, not of
the finished design, and in this respect it is
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Dave Mitchell dave.mitch...@virgin.net
wrote:
Yes, but again origami is not about the destination. It is about the
journey. I would argue that a finished design that is inelegant to fold is
not a good piece of origami however visually attractive or interesting
