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Realization while talking with
branna: I've been folding origami for 40 years. My usual personal marker for no longer being a youngster is my time online (35 years, starting with dial-up BBSs) but this is an even longer measure. And in its way more impressive.
Since, however significant this may be to me, that's not enough to make a post, here's a couple recent results of all that practice:

Folded from a 10" (25cm) square, no cuts: three long necks with dragon heads, four legs, wings, and a tail. This was something like the 5th or 6th time I've made this model, and despite it being several years since the last one, it was not the technical challenge I remembered -- just long and complicated. Huh.

A tiny apatosaurus* folded from 3" (7.5cm) paper from memory, by way of stretching myself. I can hold about a dozen models in my head at any given time, and this is the most complicated one I've ever memorized. With TBD old enough I don't have to pocket a tissue pack everywhere I go, I now carry small folding papers. I managed this model without resorting to a toothpick or the like, for working the smaller folds. And then repeated the feat in light green (not shown).
---L.
* AKA the Artist Formerly Known As Brontosaurus.
Subject quote from "Let's Go Crazy," Prince.
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Since, however significant this may be to me, that's not enough to make a post, here's a couple recent results of all that practice:

Folded from a 10" (25cm) square, no cuts: three long necks with dragon heads, four legs, wings, and a tail. This was something like the 5th or 6th time I've made this model, and despite it being several years since the last one, it was not the technical challenge I remembered -- just long and complicated. Huh.

A tiny apatosaurus* folded from 3" (7.5cm) paper from memory, by way of stretching myself. I can hold about a dozen models in my head at any given time, and this is the most complicated one I've ever memorized. With TBD old enough I don't have to pocket a tissue pack everywhere I go, I now carry small folding papers. I managed this model without resorting to a toothpick or the like, for working the smaller folds. And then repeated the feat in light green (not shown).
---L.
* AKA the Artist Formerly Known As Brontosaurus.
Subject quote from "Let's Go Crazy," Prince.
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Date: 6 July 2017 04:23 pm (UTC)Both of those creatures have a lot of personality.
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Date: 6 July 2017 04:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 6 July 2017 05:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 7 July 2017 03:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 7 July 2017 03:41 am (UTC)(35 years! Congratulations(?). I bought a friend's slow modem 25 years ago and met BBSes that way. (Actually slow: 1200 or 2400 baud in the age of 14.4k meant being able to read text as it came up on the screen.))
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Date: 7 July 2017 03:43 pm (UTC)35, yeah. And yeah, congratulations -- I feel no ambivalence about that.
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Date: 8 July 2017 04:40 am (UTC)*salutes you*
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Date: 7 July 2017 04:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 7 July 2017 03:49 pm (UTC)OTOH, the trade-off for making such long, independent necks is folding a LOT of paper into the center, so the body is very thick and the flaps that become the wings and legs are stubby and hard to detail. The end result is a little less than half as long as one side of the starting square.
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Date: 7 July 2017 04:25 pm (UTC)If we ever meet up, I'd love to see you in origami action.
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Date: 7 July 2017 04:34 pm (UTC)ETA: For an example of something that started with very large paper: the last pic in this post. The result is about 8" high, and based on techniques that I know had to have gone into it, my guess is the original was about 1m square.
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Date: 9 July 2017 03:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 9 July 2017 04:00 am (UTC)The strap is not a. complete loop ...
It's a single piece of paper without cuts, I pretty darn sure. Advanced origami techniques can produce amazing effects.
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Date: 9 July 2017 10:13 am (UTC)