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Robert Lang's koi with scales, from his website.
Lang's folding instructions for the koi without scales, from Origami Design Secrets. (How to fold it with scales is left as an exercise for the advanced reader.)
Photos from Flickr tagged both koi and origami, showing several different designs, including Lang's. I want some of that red-patches-on-white paper. Want!
Lang's TED talk on why science is important to art and art is important to science (including a brief discussion of the koi starting at 3'50'').
Time-lapse video of someone folding Lang's koi with scales. The paper size scares me. As does the iron.
eHow's write-up of Lang's explanation of how to fold the scales. Works best in conjunction with this photo explanation.
Post of someone folding a smaller version of the koi, using a different method for the scales. He later did a full-sized version, including an explanation of the iron.
My first successful tesselated scaling.
A larger scaling with slightly smaller scales. Note the convex shape.
A smaller scaling, this one almost flat, successfully carved out of the middle of the sheet as a proof-of-concept. I think that's as small as I can make the scales. Now to somehow make this with the right area, in the correct place, overlaps facing backward, to make a scaled body and unscaled head/fins/tail.
And for those otherwise uninterested, the promised photo of a metarabbit:
---L.
Lang's folding instructions for the koi without scales, from Origami Design Secrets. (How to fold it with scales is left as an exercise for the advanced reader.)
Photos from Flickr tagged both koi and origami, showing several different designs, including Lang's. I want some of that red-patches-on-white paper. Want!
Lang's TED talk on why science is important to art and art is important to science (including a brief discussion of the koi starting at 3'50'').
Time-lapse video of someone folding Lang's koi with scales. The paper size scares me. As does the iron.
eHow's write-up of Lang's explanation of how to fold the scales. Works best in conjunction with this photo explanation.
Post of someone folding a smaller version of the koi, using a different method for the scales. He later did a full-sized version, including an explanation of the iron.
My first successful tesselated scaling.
A larger scaling with slightly smaller scales. Note the convex shape.
A smaller scaling, this one almost flat, successfully carved out of the middle of the sheet as a proof-of-concept. I think that's as small as I can make the scales. Now to somehow make this with the right area, in the correct place, overlaps facing backward, to make a scaled body and unscaled head/fins/tail.
And for those otherwise uninterested, the promised photo of a metarabbit:
---L.