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larryhammerRobert 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.
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Date: 6 December 2010 04:02 pm (UTC)I haven't yet read your talk on origami and writing (though by now it comes highly recommended ^_^), so perhaps in that you mentioned the metarabbit? It's a great concept, a metarabbit. The rabbit in the photo looks quite material and phenomenal, but I'll take it on faith that it's also meta.
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Date: 6 December 2010 04:20 pm (UTC)I mentioned the metarabbit in the comments. It's meta because it's folded from rabbit-patterned paper.
---L.
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Date: 9 December 2010 01:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 9 December 2010 02:14 am (UTC)---L.
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Date: 6 December 2010 07:19 pm (UTC)One of my Great Probably Unfulfillable Life Ambitions is to fold Lang's frickin' cuckoo clock.
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Date: 6 December 2010 07:56 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 9 December 2010 01:55 am (UTC)Metarabbit is adorable. *snuggles*
...Can you snuggle origami?
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Date: 9 December 2010 02:13 am (UTC)---L.
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Date: 9 December 2010 01:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 9 December 2010 02:13 am (UTC)---L.