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SIMPLE ORIGAMI

 Origami is art !

It can raise high levels of complexity, like for example a doudle deck english bus, with all the seats made from a single sheet of paper, without any cuts nor glue (model by Max Hulme)

Some models take a minimum of 2 hours to fold. And it can go up to one week of work (8 hours a day) for Joisel's Pangolin.

All the models presented here have less than 4 folds.

Why 4 ? Because it still leaves room for creation, and 4 is the square root of 16 ! And 16 is the sum of 10 and 6.

As you can see, anyone can create simple Origami.

There are 2 ways to create a simple Origami model :

• Take a sheet of paper (can be square, rectangle, round, triangle, ...). Play with the paper; turn it over, roll it, fold it (remember, less than 4 folds), and at each step, look attentively at the model. Turn it upside down, turn it over, look at it from above, from bellow, from the right, from the left, ...

  Try to imagine what it could look like, try to think of how, with a little imagination, it does look like something

   

• Search for a subject that you would like to create. Must be something simple (a 2-folds double deck bus must be pretty hard to do). Then, in your mind or drawn onto paper, try to simplify it again and again. Then, try to imagine how it could be folded. And fold it !

Once you've created a model, fold it again and again, each time making small alterations to it. Wouldn't it be possible to remove one fold ? Wouldn't it be nicer if you move one point 5 milimeters up, or down, or right, or left ? Does a 2 color paper add something to it ?, ...

NOTE : While pure Origami is prefered (no cuts, no glue, square paper, no laser-guided guillotine), I think that we could accept almost any shape on paper, and even some cuts (but ionly if they add a significant improvement to the model).

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