Hey guys I got a first time origami request is there any great easy to do tricks? I haven't done origami yet so unrelated photo please don't flame
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>>629882yes, there are many.
What is your favourite thing to make?
>>629762is this your work?
I've been making little unicorns and leaving them around work to mess with a coworker **he doesn't know he is a replicant**
>>629696Funny you say that. They were full of wax and I included a book of matches. Burned bright.
>>628169This makes me sad, because when i was a child, i wanted really badly to come up with something on my own, i made a dinosaur, it didn't take me very long to figure out, but i made it without any instruction or googling, just my prior origami knowledge, i made that dinosaur almost exactly.
>>629878great minds think alike. you should cherish that you've come up with it on your own.
Recently I got inspired by this guy who models their cosplays with cardboard and I got surprised by how good the round shapes ended up look like. I only want to make a mask with round shapes but every tutorial I found uses straight strokes for the template and I want to know if I can find more information of how to do it the other way
>>625421For searchable terms: a **dart** is the sewing/pattern term for the type of cut shown in your helmet pattern photo used to turn a flat surface into a ball-like curved surface. The opposite concept of adding material to get a saddle-shaped surface doesn't have an exactly analogous term in sewing to my knowledge, but **godet** comes kinda close.
>>628206If you just want to start getting your hands dirty, one way to come up with 2d cutting patterns like you see here is to work backwards from 3d to 2d. For example, let's suppose you wanted to design a suit of cosplay armor that will fit you, and you want to know what shapes to cut out of foam or cardboard that can be fitted together into your armor. You get a friend to wrap your whole body in saran wrap, then wrap around that saran wrap with duct tape. Then you draw on the duct tape with a sharpy and try to partition the surface of into areas that have roughly zero gaussian curvature (either flat-ish surfaces like the front of your chest, cylindrical-ish sections like your upper arm, or conical sections like the taper of your forearm), areas with negative gaussian curvature (pringle/saddle shapes, like where your pectoral muscle attaches to the arm), and areas with positive gaussian curvature (roughly spherical bumps like your shoulders or roughly spherical indents like your armpits). mark each region with a +, -, or 0 according to what its curvature is.Once you separate the surface into these curvature areas mark each side of each label each side of each sharpie line with a number so you can put it all back together later. Then carefully cut off the saran/duct tape along the sharpie lines, preferably with kiddie scissors so you don't stab yourself.
>>628207Now sort the pieces +, -, and 0 piles. The zero pieces should flatten out nicely as they are. They can just be cut out of foam as they are. + and - pieces will stubbornly not want to lie flat as they are. The (+) pieces will get taught around the edges and loose in the middle when you try to flatten them. They may even tear around the edges if you try too hard. To get it to lie flat, you add some some labeled sharpie lines around the outside then cut them (like in your helmet photo). These are your darts. Do this until it lies flat.The (-) pieces will get all wrinkly and fold over themselves around the edges if you try to flatten them. to get these flat, you gotta remove some material around the edges. Draw some pizza slices (godots) around the outside and label the edges, then cut the pizza slices all the way out, but hold onto them. Do this until each of the pieces lies more or less flat with no overlap around the edge of each main (-) piece. Now you have a bunch of flat pieces which you can trace onto your cardboard or whatever. Add a little extra size around all edges (except for the edges from darts and godots) so the thing isn't skin-tight. Cut all the pieces, bend them into shape, and glue them together by the edge labels. Now you have some fitted armor.
>>628208If you want to learn about this stuff in more detail here are a few different avenues you can dive into pretty deep:For sewing and patterning stuff: look up Colette Wolff's "The Art of Manipulating Fabric". Which covers darts and godots and a million other things that come in handy for this kinda work.To learn about the curvature type stuff requires a lot of math background, but generally speaking this is the primary topic of differential geometry of surfaces. Here's a URL to a free textbook pdf: https://docenti.ing.unipi.it/griff/files/dC.pdfChapters 1 through 4 would get you to a working knowledge of why the saran-wrap and duct tape method with the +, -, and 0 curvature regions works. Fair warning that diff geo pretty much demands you understand multivariate/vector calculus and linear algebra, and maybe some real analysis.I have also seen someone mention developable surfaces, which is the principle object of study in paper-folding mathematics, AKA computational origami. That's another fruitful avenue of study, but I warn it's significantly more challenging math than the diff-geo. That being said, you can just use tools other people have made based on this math without understanding it. Here's a list of resources you could use to wet your beak surrounding comp origami: https://langorigami.com/article/computational-origami/
fuck i need to get into sewing one day
Hello! I make pepakura for money. Models are usually constructed only once. My pieces are not so much like what we can find online; they tend to be VERY large and intricate, akin to a vg model. This is context for what my advice applies to. If you do it as an easy hobby or stick with truly low poly/tiny part models, a lot won't apply. No pic related just inspo, this is advice dump not my art thread. If you have any questions, why X, tell me more about Z, I am happy to oblige. I rarely use 4chan and wrote this on a whim, sorry if no reply. If you are interested in reaching for the stars with pepakura, here are my personal trade secrets.MATERIALS/TOOLS---Do not score the fold lines by hand. If you have a silhouette cameo, go ahead. To fold by hand purchase a glass scraper. I have two, one with a small 1.5 inch blade and another that is 4 inches. Dull the blade. I align the fold line across my fingers, press down with the blade.---Stop using an xacto knife. Get a snap blade utility knife. I HIGHLY recommend OLFA, XA-1 design. ---Titebond II Premium wood glue. It doesn't cure instantly but that's good, you don't want that. You want to be able to move the tab around into the perfect position before it starts curing. You have a 10 second window to make sure it's in position before it starts curing, then another 10 seconds till you can let go & any tension in the structure won't pull the tab out of place.---Tiny squeezable craft bottles for glue. One of the bottles I added thicker medical syringe tube. It is long, which is good for when I have to apply glue to a tab which is difficult to access The other bottle has a 1 inch long coffee straw, I use that for when I need a lot of glue then spread it around. When a tab is huge I just open a jar of glue and use a brush to paint it on. ---Dental tools.---Little neodymium magnets. I rarely use them, usually to hold a tab in place after the glue has already cured to the point that I can let go. See below
GOING BIGWorking with such large paper models requires support. 3D printing at this scale has so much imperfection, time and risk of failure, it would be very heavy and require a complex web of internal support. As an art form, sculpting/mold pouring also isn't under threat from this tech in my eyes. For my pieces, shoddy woodworking as a skeleton does the job and I pad the areas were wood contacts the paper with pool noodles, pillow filling wrapped in fabric, fire hazard stuff. 120 lb paper is flexible, surprisingly resilient, and the final product is so lightweight it's never going to warp if properly supported. I use wood glue so the paper will rip before the tabs will ever become unsecured.I've had to finish assembly after transport on site, that's something I avoid, logistic crap. I tend to base the size of my largest pieces around standard dimensions. Standard height of a ceiling, standard width and height of a door and double doors. LxWxH is not a determine factor, you can maneuver a piece diagonally and twist it around to make it fit through a frame. MODELINGidk. I have no formal training. I studied art from my favorite games, Bloodborne and Dark Souls, looked at art, texture-less models. At first I only made symmetrical models and added asymmetrical parts afterwards. Just get blender go on youtube and practice. I copied a bunch of low poly tutorials and then my first model was a huge leap into complexity. If you're making a cat and the proportions look weird just look at a reference and keep messing with it till it seems right. Once you have the proportions right you can make the polygons look more geometric-y. I am not a creative person. I do this in reverence of objective beauty and other's art, try to reverently replicate it in this form. Thanks for reading I hope this helped or inspired you
thank you for this excellent thread
Nice thread, cheers for the glass cutting tool tip.
thank you for these tips
thanks anon.
hi /po/ im a long time observer but first time poster i wanted to share the project im workin on because im tryin to engage with the creative process more. anyway im buildin a giant mask based on pops head from the cartoon regular show because i have a pipe dream that i could get free beer as pops at halloween parties this year! i will try to keep yall updated with pictures and such but here is my first work in progress picture im also open to advice on this project aswell
>>629822How many decades did you observe for before posting?
>>629824apparently not long enough since he decided to make his own four-reply thread instead of posting in an existing one.
Is there any beginner foundational stuff you should learn and practice with that prepares you for harder intermediate models? Or do you just attempt random shit from day 1 and fail over and over until things click?
>>629800Yep.
Absolutely. Origami has a pretty learnable foundation, and practicing the right things makes intermediate models dramatically easier.
>>629801>>629803Can you guys give me some suggestions? I’m struggling a lot with reverse folds for some reason. Like the tail of a carp or head of a crane. Idk what I’m doing wrong, but I have to do it enough times where the correct side of the paper shows through.Btw is it common to have trouble understanding certain steps in videos or images when making a model for the first time? That seems to be a major hurdle as well.What makes things more complicated is if I try to say what model, there are like 5 different brachiosaurus dinosaur models and idk who the creator is for the specific one I’m working on.
>>629804Just do stuff. You learn how the paper folds under your fingers, how small mistakes grow into bigger problems down the line, the speed the persistence and the dexterity are built no matter what you do. Just go do stuff. You will get better no matter what you practice you just have to practice.
>>629827but how do i pet the dog, i don't understand
https://archive.org/download/maly.modelarz.1957-199/maly.modelarz.1957-199_archive.torrentScans of Polish paper model magazine spanning over five decades.
https://archive.org/details/mpmodel_113_messerschmitt_bf-109x
https://archive.org/details/msmodel_020_yak-38m
https://archive.org/search?query=Angraf+176+F-35+Lightning+II
https://archive.org/search?query=Hobby+Model+45+Mig-31+Foxhound
O cholera.
you have sufficient paper, but you can't leave the room or google anything
>>629777Not necessary, but thanks anyway.
>>629777cute, would make.
>>629713welcome back.
The only one I made without a template was a gift box for my friend. Otherwise, I don't think I'll survive that bullet
No Stencil thread? What has happened to /po/ ?
one more snake
this one is a little complicated but try your best
>>629695Easiest way to attack this is:Black layer firstWhite layer secondOne last black layer thirdBut optimized and harder would be:White layer firstThen black layer secondThose little air holes in the lighter are a bitch but they're a necessary detail of theclassic zippo
>>625871thanksi will first try using pepehttps://www.pasteboard.co/h_yZ15sGQqXP.jpg
Is it like a computer program or something
>>626583I just followed this tutorial to make my first diagram in inkscape https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TMICjVvALcSoon I'll be shilling my own models everywhere!>>626585I know there are ways to mathematically create models but can't you just iterate faster with paper in hand?Then you just trace over photos.I don't think anyone is using physics simulators to create their diagrams. In addition, diagrams often have over-exaggerated proportions on some steps to make them easier to read/understood by the reader (instead of being realistic).
>>626583>How are origami recipes made>Is it like a computer program or somethingFor those who are really serious, there are in fact strings of words or symbols that abbreviate the folds.For example, the crane you posted begins with what we call the "bird base" (step 8). We use this base for many other origami projects, so we all learn how to make it.From there, your crane uses kite folds, petal folds, and reverse folds. A formula of sorts can be written to describe the entire process.
>>626587OH, so that's what a squash fold is, I was confused by wiki how's written instruction and had to watch the gif carefully. I used to fold paper cranes but I forgot how. I just want to do something with my foil tea wrappings other than throw them straight out single-use...I would like recipes for boxes and stars/flowers to decorate them with please, snowflakes?
I pick a base and mess around, then pick an animal that looks like whatever I end up with
>>626583Who was that one Anon who made the almost life-like origami of his waifu, or I'd assume?I'm kind of curious about that one specific Anon's progress.
So I am tea dyeing and then baking paper to get a nice distressed look. I want to bind it with some this twine to keep a rustic look, but I am worried I will just keep ripping it.Pic related is my test leaf I made from my over cooked pieces. End of the day this is a prop for a table top RPG, so it will need to be strong enough to stand up to handling. Anyways anyone here ever worked with distressed paper or hand bound books? Any help would be great.
>>628102Here's a post >>627082 I made in the other thread about bookbinding that shows what I do for the books I bind. The video it's based off is for a "medieval style" binding so that might go well with the theme you're going for. I've also considered doing the same thing but with a fully leather cover. I just haven't got around to trying it yet. I do like the look of those pages you've done.There's also a good bit of posts in that thread that might be helpful for you to look at for ideas for the binding.
>>628391Thanks I used the less even ones for the test. Some are very even and really look like parchment. I used my beater baking sheet, I have a lot for art projects. Any little burnt on contamination will cause the black spots as the evaporating tea lifts it off.
>>628101How do I fold paper to look like a book?
>>629637very carefully
>>628101There is something called coptic stitch i Ihave seen. That looks like what u are doing. Lately i have been watching bookbondage vids for background noise
Hello!I currently have a group dedicated to finding and posting Origami books on Discord. do you want join?Invitation link: https://discord.gg/JC65pEeNIf you have any doubts, below is a book "as a gift for you" (but the maximum allowed file is only 8 mb)
I already got em bro
>>628094Fair enough
If you can help find NOA Magazine no. 50 with the fish on the cover, that would would be great.
Is the discord link available for origami library mentioned here?
>>629701Sadly some retard decided to report, and the server got nuked.
It's name is single dahlia and is designed by yuki sato aka ori_sato
>>628923yuphttps://www.4shared.com/office/w28YlTIKku/Single_Dahlia.html
Can some1 share the diagram for Jeon Jaeil's Rooster from his latest book please?
Papercraft with additional / alternate materials, aluminum, wire...
>>629461
Not into warhammer but their power armor is fuckin cool
>>624427Two and a half years
