Re: [Origami] Square paper no cuts
Robert Lang wrote... A lot of my tessellations and geometrics are folded from weird shapes (like, really irregular serrated polygons). I just say what they are. Then people can decide for themselves if they want to stick their personal label of origami on them I've been making a lot of Fujimoto hexagon flowers from rectangles, and the first step is always to fold the two top corners in to make the 120 degree angle. those flaps are not used later, and make the subsequent folding bulky at those two points. I also see Fujimoto (and others) start with a square, then fold corners in to make hexagons and octagons. There's even a few Palmer models that do it. If you started with an actual hexagon or octagon, you'd get the same result; the extra paper adds nothing to the model aside from legitimacy being from a square. A lot of dollar bill folds do this as well. I've had this hang up for a while, and have resisted cutting off corners and bits to remain pure. I still balk at making cuts to give extra flaps, or to cut a deer shape out of paper and then fold it in half to make the deer, but I'm encouraged that just because you *can* do it with a square doesn't necessarily follow that you *should*. TLDR: Robert Lang says relax. Thank you!
Re: [Origami] Square paper no cuts
Thus spake Vishwas Deval vish...@devalgroup.com on 5/6/14 8:31 PM: ... Things become much easier if this extra paper is cutoff leaving only a small portion to keep the corner graft in place. Final model is better looking. There are many such instaces where part of the paper is folded in and is never used. As I am not a purist about square paper I cut off this extra paper and fold the model. Question is if I bring such a model for display at one of Origami exhibitions will it be accepted as true Origami or get rejected for having cut off extra paper?. Different origami exhibitions have their own criteria, so you need to check with the specific exhibition you're considering. For most origami conventions, pretty much anything goes, but you should say what you did in its label. For example: Eupatorus gracilicornis Designed by Dao Cuong Folded by Vishwas Deval From a square with the corner removed And to be honest are such models really from square paper? No. It's from a nonregular pentagon (if I understood your description). There's no harm (and much good) in just saying what you did. A lot of my tessellations and geometrics are folded from weird shapes (like, really irregular serrated polygons). I just say what they are. Then people can decide for themselves if they want to stick their personal label of origami on them. Robert
