[HN Gopher] Five origami books by Shuzo Fujimoto are now public ...
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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.
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| https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1253565/
| uwagar wrote:
| just got into folding polyhedrons and thanks for this post :)
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| 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.
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| 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)
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| [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...
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