[Origami] Lexus

Lexus worked with Taro's Origami Studio. Taro's reports using a stellated octahedron Here is a link to Taro's work on the project. http://www.tarosorigami.com/2018/03/11/lexus-national-ad-campaign/ ORIFUN to all, Dianne

Re: [Origami] Why did origami become popular in the 1980s ?

Wolf wrote: I am currently working on a paper about the world-wide success of origami. > > In the google ngram viewer (a website that let's your search for term in > a large amount of books) I looked up origami, and found in various > languages, that the rise of the term "origami" began in the

Re: [Origami] Origami Sighting - Lexus Comercial

I’m not sure who did the Lexus commercial, but I had some conversations with them last year about wanting origami for some sort of commercial, so I think this is what they eventually went with. I’m curious to know who did it. It was a fairly complex and unusual brief. As those intrepid

Re: [Origami] Origami Sighting - Lexus Comercial

My source for 'cumulation' was http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Cumulation.html It even uses origami images, including a sonobe model! Dennis

Re: [Origami] Origami Sighting - Lexus Comercial

Hi, >>But then, I haven't found a good name for those Sonobe solids. How about >>pyramidized octahedron or icosahedron? I don’t have an issue with calling them 'stellated' since it means 'turned into a star, but I'm aware that there is a strict geometrical definition of a stellation and I

[Origami] Why did origami become popular in the 1980s ?

Wolf Weidner said: >I looked up origami, and found in various > languages, that the rise of the term "origami" began in the 1980s [1] > Does anyone have an idea why that is? This seems a difficult question to answer. And very different from the question 'Why did

[Origami] re lexus commercial

Faye Goldman wrote about polyhedra " The pyramid sticking out from the base polyhedron does not need to be anything special, unless you are looking for the stellation." Stellations involve extending face planes and not putting pyramids on faces of polyhedra. George Hart has a definition of

Re: [Origami] Origami Sighting - Lexus Comercial

Meenakshi: A stellated octahedron can be thought of as a compound of two tetrahedra, where the spikes are smaller tetrahedra themselves ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellated_octahedron). The Sonobe constructions have spikes that are pyramids bound by 3 right isosceles triangles and a

Re: [Origami] Origami Sighting - Lexus Comercial

Thus spake "Origami on behalf of Meenakshi Mukerji" on 3/19/18, 4:19 PM: ...The Sonobe type onstructions in no way satisfy the criteria for a stellated solid (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellation). But

Re: [Origami] Origami Sighting - Lexus Comercial

>But then, I haven't found a good name for those >Sonobe solids. How about >pyramidized octahedron or icosahedron? In italian we call them "ottaedro piramidato" and "icosaedro piramidato" that you can translate into the terms suggested by Meenakshi. Ciao Francesco "There's a fold in

Re: [Origami] Origami Sighting - Lexus Comercial

Thanks for both videos - the commercial as well as behind the scene. A clarification about the shape. In origami we loosely call the Sonobe type constructions stellated octahedron (12 units) or stellated icosahedron (30 units) while they are actually not. The the single sheet model in the ad