Origami

[DACH]

Does anyone here do origami?

As the era becomes more and more digital, such arts are becoming more and more scarce. 

Nowadays it's getting rare to see people and children doing origami.

 

Origami (折り紙, from ori meaning "folding", and kami meaning "paper" (kami changes to gami due to rendaku)) is the art of paper folding, which is often associated with Japanese culture. In modern usage, the word "origami" is used as an inclusive term for all folding practices, regardless of their culture of origin. The goal is to transform a flat square sheet of paper into a finished sculpture through folding and sculpting techniques. Modern origami practitioners generally discourage the use of cuts, glue, or markings on the paper. Origami folders often use the Japanese word kirigami to refer to designs which use cuts, although cutting is more characteristic of Chinese papercrafts.

The small number of basic origami folds can be combined in a variety of ways to make intricate designs. The best-known origami model is the Japanese paper crane. In general, these designs begin with a square sheet of paper whose sides may be of different colors, prints, or patterns. Traditional Japanese origami, which has been practiced since the Edo period (1603–1867), has often been less strict about these conventions, sometimes cutting the paper or using nonsquare shapes to start with. The principles of origami are also used in stents, packaging and other engineering applications.

History

Distinct paperfolding traditions arose in Europe, China, and Japan which have been well-documented by historians. These seem to have been mostly separate traditions, until the 20th century.

In China, traditional funerals often include the burning of folded paper, most often representations of gold nuggets (yuanbao). The practice of burning paper representations instead of full-scale wood or clay replicas dates from the Sung Dynasty (905–1125 CE), though it's not clear how much folding was involved.

In Japan, the earliest unambiguous reference to a paper model is in a short poem by Ihara Saikaku in 1680 which mentions a traditional butterfly design used during Shinto weddings. Folding filled some ceremonial functions in Edo period Japanese culture; noshi were attached to gifts, much likegreeting cards are used today. This developed into a form of entertainment; the first two instructional books published in Japan are clearly recreational.

In Europe, there was a well-developed genre of napkin folding, which flourished during the 17th and 18th centuries. After this period, this genre declined and was mostly forgotten; historian Joan Sallas attributes this to the introduction of porcelain, which replaced complex napkin folds as a dinner-table status symbol among nobility. However, some of the techniques and bases associated with this tradition continued to be a part of European culture; folding was a significant part of Friedrich Froebel's "Kindergarten" method, and the designs published in connection with his curriculum are stylistically similar to the napkin fold repertoire.

When Japan opened its borders in the 1860s, as part of a modernization strategy, they imported Froebel's Kindergarten system—and with it, German ideas about paperfolding. This included the ban on cuts, and the starting shape of a bicolored square. These ideas, and some of the European folding repertoire, were integrated into the Japanese tradition. Before this, traditional Japanese sources use a variety of starting shapes, often had cuts; and if they had color or markings, these were added after the model was folded.

In the early 1900s, Akira Yoshizawa, Kosho Uchiyama, and others began creating and recording original origami works. Akira Yoshizawa in particular was responsible for a number of innovations, such as wet-folding and the Yoshizawa–Randlett diagramming system, and his work inspired a renaissance of the art form. During the 1980s a number of folders started systematically studying the mathematical properties of folded forms, which led to a rapid increase in the complexity of origami models.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origami

Japanese crane

Flowers

Ninja stars

Fox

Snake

Dinosaur

Mathematical origami

Dog face

Jumping frog

Boat

Fruits modular origami

Chair

Star Wars X wing fighter.

Darth Vader

Yoda

Butterflies

Ball

Stars

kangaroo

Turtle

Fish

A simple box

 

 

Edited April 29, 2018 by DACH

[Hamburger]

I know i eat onigiri....hahaahhaah. disturb nia

[DACH]

On Japanese greeting cards

 

 

 

[kdash]

i used to do dinosaur origami in primary school. that time i was crazy about dinosaurs, and chanced upon a book in the library called "Jurassic Origami" by Edwin Ee. the rest is history...

 

Edited April 29, 2018 by kdash

[DACH]

Origami cars

 

Really?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Evillusion]

i used to do dinosaur origami in primary school. that time i was crazy about dinosaurs, and chanced upon a book in the library called "Jurassic Origami" by Edwin Ee. the rest is history...

wish i still remember how to make an origami rose flower........used to make some of my female colleagues go gaga over it........

[DACH]

wish i still remember how to make an origami rose flower........used to make some of my female colleagues go gaga over it........

[Kxbc]

I thought who opened an orgasm thread.

 

Ohhhh, read wrongly.

[UncleAtas]

Actually I am in to Origami.

My recent art work.

 

[Evillusion]

Actually I am in to Origami.

 

My recent art work.

 

GuessWhatIsThis.jpg

let me guess.......a stone?

[UncleAtas]

let me guess.......a stone?

[Evillusion]

Wah. U also fold paper like me?

 

Must do a more complicated fold next time. That rock took me a few hours.

ya.....many times when i do mistakes.......

[kdash]

this is funny haha...

 

https://youtu.be/Jqu4aNbdFp8

[DACH]

I thought who opened an orgasm thread.

 

Ohhhh, read wrongly.

[Evillusion]

hahaha.......

[Count-Bracula]

When I was a kid, there was this old man doing origami on TV. My cousins and I will rush to grab papers to follow step by step and fold. Anyone remember this TV program?

[winstedt]

wow ! its looking amazing ! i love it !

[Angcheek]

I like this when young. Bought the ninja star from a classmate for 20c, then dismantled n reassembled it.