[Origami] Who is creator

2022-02-06 Thread Rona Gurkewitz
Hello, I am interested in knowing who created this module that was published in my first book. I had just found it at the Origami Center. Starting with a square, fold diagonals to find center, fold points to center, unfold, fold each point to the point on the diagonal at the fold just unfolded

Re: [Origami] models using old playing cards -- ideas wanted

2012-10-02 Thread Rona Gurkewitz
From: origami-boun...@lists.digitalorigami.com [origami-boun...@lists.digitalorigami.com] On Behalf Of Diana Lee [boostdi...@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 10:19 AM To: The Origami Mailing List Subject: Re: [Origami] models using old playing

Re: [Origami] sighting

2012-10-05 Thread Rona Gurkewitz
From: origami-boun...@lists.digitalorigami.com [origami-boun...@lists.digitalorigami.com] On Behalf Of Kathy Knapp [kskn...@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 11:16 AM To: The Origami Mailing List Subject: Re: [Origami] sighting _

Re: [Origami] origami makes Instructables again

2013-01-06 Thread Rona Gurkewitz
They really need to credit Laura Kruskal and Gay Merrill Gross as designers because this model is very clearly derived from theirs From: origami-boun...@lists.digitalorigami.com [origami-boun...@lists.digitalorigami.com] On Behalf Of Kathy Knapp [kskn...@

Re: [Origami] Origami to form readers.

2013-02-09 Thread Rona Gurkewitz
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:59 AM, Ricardo Borges wrote: > Dear friends, > > I am beginning an academical research about the use of origami in the > classroom as a tool to develop reading and writing skills. > > Does anybody has research about it? Any su

Re: [Origami] Yet Another Semi-Random Use of the Term "Origami"

2013-02-11 Thread Rona Gurkewitz
From: origami-boun...@lists.digitalorigami.com [origami-boun...@lists.digitalorigami.com] On Behalf Of Anne LaVin [anne.la...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 3:40 PM To: The Origami Mailing List Subject: [Origami] Yet Another Semi-Random Use o

[Origami] Bennett Arnstein

2013-04-01 Thread Rona Gurkewitz
Bennett Arnstein has been in the hospital for a few weeks. Anyone wishing to contact him, contact me for his address. Rona Gurkewitz

Re: [Origami] Q re: paper cup modular

2013-12-06 Thread Rona Gurkewitz
VA wrote Hi there, I had a question re: the very simple model- the paper cup modular. It's an 8-piece modular using the simple paper cup folds. The model ends up being a flat coaster like model with neat 8 pizza wedges on one side & a twist kaleidoscope effect on the other side. It's a neat l

Re: [Origami] Q re: paper cup modular

2013-12-06 Thread Rona Gurkewitz
Louise wrote: Are there any diagrams for Lewis Simon's model. Yes and no. There are diagrams for the module and assembly of 5 units into a cup in Beginner's Book of Modular Origami Polyhedra: The Platonic Solids. 12 cups of ofe units each are connected with a connector module to make a dimpl

Re: [Origami] 3 unit triangular bipyramid

2015-06-24 Thread Rona Gurkewitz
Hi, I learned this model from Lillian Oppenheimer and Alice Gray in 1973 as created by Molly Kahn. Perhaps it appears in an issue of the Origamian Rona

Re: [Origami] 3 unit triangular bipyramid

2015-06-26 Thread Rona Gurkewitz
Gerardo wrote: I would like to contact Molly Kahn; can any of you help me contact her? Molly Kahn was Lillian Oppenheimer's daughter and she passed away a long time ago. You can find out more about her from her sister-in-law Laura Kruskal. Rona

[Origami] origami and civil engineering E. Filipov, miura ori

2015-10-08 Thread Rona Gurkewitz
Hi all, A colleague of mine told me about this website www.efilipov.com . E. Filipov is a PhD student in Civil Engineering that with Tomohiro Tachi and Paulino have created origami designs with special structural properties. They have published in a publication of the Na

Re: [Origami] Fortune Tellers

2015-11-20 Thread Rona Gurkewitz
You may not be familiar with Bennett Arnstein and my Spike Ball family of modular origami modules but if you are interested in the fortune teller shape, you may want to look at them. The models are based on different polyhedral and look like fortune tellers glued together, although the modules

[Origami] contact Carole Stephens

2017-01-08 Thread Rona Gurkewitz
Hi all, Would Carold Stephens please contact me. I don't know your email address. Rona

[Origami] Equilateral sonobe

2017-01-26 Thread Rona Gurkewitz
I remember that James Sakoda had such a module. Rona

[Origami] modular cubes

2017-05-16 Thread Rona Gurkewitz
[Origami] New modular cubes? O Origami on behalf of David Mitchell Reply all| Today, 3:42 AM Sy Chen wrote: >My friend, Jim Weir and I recently tossed around the idea of teaching simple modular design for a local event. We came up with a few simple ideas for cubes. Some of them >are very sim

[Origami] Maybe modular origami with magnets?

2017-10-31 Thread Rona Gurkewitz
Check out the two videos on this page http://www.kosticks.com/triacontahedron-box.html Triacontahedron Box - KO Sticks www.kosticks.com The structure of this box is made out of six identical blocks of wood with a rectangular cross-section. The

[Origami] cuboctahedron from 2x1

2017-12-11 Thread Rona Gurkewitz
Dave Mitchell wrote "This is Paul Jackson's Cuboctahedron. Originally folded from a square which was cupboard folded to make a 2x1 rectangle, I believe." I discovered this model too when I was making models from cupboard door folds, like my simple accordion book. Around 2000 Rona

[Origami] re lexus commercial

2018-03-20 Thread Rona Gurkewitz
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 stel

[Origami] dna origami

2019-01-27 Thread Rona Gurkewitz
https://physicsworld.com/a/do-it-yourself-dna-design/ [https://physicsworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/DNA-design.jpg] Do-it-yourself DNA design – Physics World physicsworld.com Exam

[Origami] Frank Lloyd Wright Origami in Wood Chair

2019-03-22 Thread Rona Gurkewitz
http://www.furnituretoday.com/article/562866-new-licensing-initiatives-frank-lloyd-wrights-designs/ [http://media-west.progressivebusinessmedia.com/photo/243/243320-wright-origami-chair.jpg] New li

Re: [Origami] Baseball Card Packet

2022-12-31 Thread Rona Gurkewitz via Origami
Hi, There's an even simpler envelope by Francis LeVangia in the Art of Origami by Gay Merrill Gross. This excellent book has been out of print for a long time. I've recenly gotten used copies of origami books on thriftbooks.com which are in very good shape and a bargain and also cheaper shipp

Re: [Origami] (no subject)

2023-09-15 Thread Rona Gurkewitz via Origami
Michael, One model that I love to teach is David Shall's paper chain link. It is one 1.5x6 in strip for each link and the link is made by just folding with no glue. It was published in his book Papercopia and I got permission from him to teach and hand out instructions. Email me for his email ad