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Five origami books by Shuzo Fujimoto are now public domain

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Re: Five origami books by Shuzo Fujimoto are now public domain

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Yajirobe wrote: post #9
robinhouston wrote: post #8

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 wonde…

Why is a cube 'startling'?

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

Re: Five origami books by Shuzo Fujimoto are now public domain

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Post by BaseballPhysics »

InitialLastName wrote: post #11
Yajirobe wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is a cube 'startling'?

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 t…

Also that slide maneuver to get the initial cube shape is really remarkable. It looks like a magic trick.

Re: Five origami books by Shuzo Fujimoto are now public domain

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Post by msrenee »

adzm wrote: post #7
msrenee wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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!

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.

Re: Five origami books by Shuzo Fujimoto are now public domain

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Post by pks016 »

lock-the-spock wrote: post #4

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?

I have used google lens with French origami book. Works well.

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Post by dtgriscom »

fluffyllemon wrote: post #10
Yajirobe wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is a cube 'startling'?

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

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.

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Post by uwagar »

mkosmul wrote: post #5
lock-the-spock wrote: post #4

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?

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 work…

something im doing wrong but i cant get to the folding instructions...pls help?

Re: Five origami books by Shuzo Fujimoto are now public domain

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Post by jasamer »

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

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