5OSME, Here I Come!

Hi guys!

These past few months, I haven't been folding much because of school work (yes, even in the holidays!!!!), so I've only used this blog for 5OSME publicity and related materials.  However, this time I'm posting about a creation of mine.

I'll be presenting my origami and math project at 5OSME! ^_^  This being a golden opportunity, I had to make it count.  A month ago, I diagrammed by House (scroll down) to submit it to the 5OSME diagram book, where it might be published.  Since the diagram needed a nice picture of the finished model, I refolded my House, planning the crease carefully to minimize unneeded lines on the model, instead of precreasing the full grid.

 

Unfortunately, I used too much water when wet-folding, resulting in a less-than-perfect appearance, but it's good enough :)

I also thought of a possible technique in wet-folding: to prevent the body of the house from opening up due to the many pleats hidden between the "walls" of the house, I bound the body by wrapping a fat strip of paper around the walls tightly, squeezing the walls together while they were wet, then taping the strip shut.  When the house dried I removed the strip and the walls closed together nicely.

A few things I learnt NOT to do while wetfolding:

(a) Don't use too much water - unsupported regions in the model will sag downwards and their creases will lose their sharpness

(b) Don't use clips on wet paper - there will be marks when the paper is dry!!!!

(c) Don't cover the model with plastic when it's drying - it won't dry!

Anyway, after the folding instructions in my diagram, I decided to add a small section called "Notes on Possible Variations", where I explained the advantage of folding models from the center of the paper: the models can be stacked on flat surfaces of another model.  The house itself was formed by stacking a roof and door, both folded from the center of the paper, on two flat sides of a cuboid, which formed the body of the house.  To demonstrate the power of this advantage, I decided to combine the house with another model.  Initially, I decided to put the house on the shell of a hermit crab, but the paper became too thick to fold; eventually, I folded a house on the back of a turtle:

 

 

Rising Standards of Living

When the real estate bubble burst, even a turtle could buy a house.

Folded with Thai Silk Paper glued onto kitchen foil

It's basically a house stacked on a turtle's flat shell.  The turtle was the "Sea Turtle" from Michael Lafosse's "Advanced Origami".  It's on the top-right corner of the book cover:

I'll try to submit that model for the exhibition as well ^_^

I can't wait for 5OSME!




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