[HN Gopher] Five origami books by Shuzo Fujimoto are now public ... ___________________________________________________________________ Five origami books by Shuzo Fujimoto are now public domain Author : mkosmul Score : 391 points Date : 2022-10-23 15:50 UTC (7 hours ago) (HTM) web link (origami.kosmulski.org) (TXT) w3m dump (origami.kosmulski.org) | psadri wrote: | Watching "Between the Folds", a documentary about Origami is 56 | minutes well spent. | | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1253565/ | uwagar wrote: | just got into folding polyhedrons and thanks for this post :) | [deleted] | lock-the-spock wrote: | These look wonderful. Sadly the introductory pages which seem to | show/explain theory and techniques are probably not | understandable without translation. Is there already a project | working on this? | mkosmul wrote: | Not yet, unfortunately, since I don't speak Japanese myself. | Google lens helps with some segments but produces garbage for | others. These books are not the most approachable and many | sections do require some background in geometric folding. | Hopefully, with the books being PD now, we'll be able to get | help and make them more accessible to everyone. Meanwhile, you | can find links to instructions for a few Fujimoto's works | scattered around the web (on youtube, on my web page at | https://origami.kosmulski.org/ and other places). | uwagar wrote: | something im doing wrong but i cant get to the folding | instructions...pls help? | msrenee wrote: | To be clear, I haven't tried any of them, but the diagrams seem | pretty thorough. I'd imagine if you've done origami before, | you'll be able to work it out with some trial an error. I'm | certain there's some very valuable wisdom locked up in the | text, but if you're just wanting to make the pieces, the info | is there. | adzm wrote: | When I was learning origami, before the internet was | available, the few books I could find beyond basic ones in | English were all entirely in Japanese. You can get very far | with just the diagrams even for complicated geometries, | though it takes a good amount of trial and error and effort. | However nowadays I can simply use my phone's Google Translate | camera to see the translations superimposed on the image | itself! | msrenee wrote: | I haven't done much since I was a teenager, but once you | have a feel for the basics, even non-standard diagrams are | plenty to learn a new pattern. It seems so complicated, but | most origami comes down to just a handful of techniques. | That's one of the coolest things about the art, imo. There | may be 100 steps, but those steps are all variations on a | few different folds. | pks016 wrote: | I have used google lens with French origami book. Works well. | DonHopkins wrote: | "You will get a better Gorilla effect if you use as big a piece | of paper as possible." -Kunihiko Kasahara, Creative Origami. | | http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/... | breck wrote: | This is amazing! Anyone know where I can purchase high quality | paper versions? | j-bos wrote: | It's heartwarming to see children freely sharing the legacy of | their parents. | robinhouston wrote: | Shuzo Fujimoto designed the most magical and startling origami | model I've ever seen, the Fujimoto Cube. Fortunately that one is | famous enough that you can find instructions and videos online, | but most of his designs are hard to find. I recently enquired on | Twitter about his design for an octahedron, which I was able to | find only because a kind stranger responded with a samizdat copy. | It's very exciting that his wonderful designs are to become more | readily accessible. | Yajirobe wrote: | Why is a cube 'startling'? | fluffyllemon wrote: | I hadn't heard of it, but I checked out a random video | Watching how it comes together, there is a step (around 0:40 | in this video https://youtu.be/rVfiPAlXdik) where the cube | just seems to magically form by itself. It's really neat | dtgriscom wrote: | Thanks for the time of the key move. I'm a little proud | that I wasn't attention-deficit enough to take advantage of | it. | InitialLastName wrote: | I'm not so well-versed on the aesthetics and expectation of | origami, but I can see a few things that seem notable about | this cube design (based on a video of someone constructing it | [0]): | | - Most of the work is done by a single folding motion, i.e. | starting from a pre-creased paper, one motion gets you almost | all the way to the cube | | - All of the visible surface is from the active side of the | paper | | - the cube appears to be very structurally stable | (considering it is made of paper) | | [0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVfiPAlXdik | BaseballPhysics wrote: | Also that slide maneuver to get the initial cube shape is | really remarkable. It looks like a magic trick. | jasamer wrote: | I folded his hydrangea design recently, following a video | tutorial[1]. It is amazing. The finished model is a beautiful | fractal flower. The folding steps aren't terribly hard to do, but | robinhouston's description - ,,magical and startling" - fits this | model very well. | | [1] https://www.happyfolding.com/instructions-fujimoto-hydrangea | colinmegill wrote: | https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d9jBwBooU1zMYlUSeFOf... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-10-23 23:00 UTC)