Origami

Posts about origami in general, including folding and design techniques, tools, etc. There are 51 entries in this category.

Origami AI Revisited

Origami AI Revisited

In early 2023, I presented my idea for a roadmap of using AI in origami, so I thought I’d revisit the topic briefly now and s...

Tissues with Origami Boat Motif

Tissues with Origami Boat Motif

Adding to my collection of random items with origami motif is this package of tissues featuring a traditional paper boat.

Shuzo Fujimoto’s 101st Birthday

Shuzo Fujimoto’s 101st Birthday

Shuzo Fujimoto (sitting) with editors of his books for Project F, standing from left to right: Taiko Niwa, Satoko Saito...

Help needed with Japanese text

Help needed with Japanese text

I’m looking for help with understanding the above fragment from Shuzo Fujimoto’s Twist Origami 1 book, page 8. You can view the complete page and the complet...

Comparison of used and new bone folder

Comparison of used and new bone folder

Here, you can see a comparison of a teflon bone folder I’ve been using for seven years at the time the picture was taken, and an identical new one. Of all th...

Two Kinds of Origami Models

Two Kinds of Origami Models

Groom and Bride compared to Box with Woven Triangles XVIII I recently realized that without planning it that way,...

A Tribute to Artur Biernacki

A Tribute to Artur Biernacki

Elephant, Chameleon, and Butterfly designed and folded by Artur Biernacki; arrangement and photograph mine Artur ...

Flickr, Instagram, and the Free Lunch

Flickr, Instagram, and the Free Lunch

The good thing about serious problems is they don’t go away easily, and you can keep writing about them for a long time. This...

Origami AI — a roadmap

Origami AI — a roadmap

In this article, I present a roadmap for applying AI to the field of origami. Starting from what is possible today, I suggest how existing building blocks co...

Folding Paper with ChatGPT

Folding Paper with ChatGPT

Everyone and their dog are posting about ChatGPT, the newest AI language model by OpenAI, so I decided to check some origami-related prompts. While I am impr...

Shuzo Fujimoto’s 100th Birthday

Shuzo Fujimoto’s 100th Birthday

Shuzo Fujimoto teaching at the Italian Origami Convention on 1988-11-01. Image from NOA magazine 166 (1989), received c...

Shuzo Fujimoto Online Event

Shuzo Fujimoto Online Event

Shuzo Fujimoto online event banner, images by Ilan Garibi, Michał Kosmulski and Robert Lang On Saturday, October ...

Growing Up as an Origamist

Growing Up as an Origamist

Me, precreasing Ridges Corrugation (32×32) in early 2018 I’ve been doing lots of origami lately, but very little ...

Oripa on 4k Screen on Linux

Oripa on 4k Screen on Linux

Comparison of Oripa with 1x and 2x scaling When Oripa is run on a 4k / HiDPI screen, all GUI elements may appear ...

Shuzo Fujimoto’s Biography

Shuzo Fujimoto’s Biography

Shuzo Fujimoto at a table, with some models, in 2006 (image courtesy of Robert Lang) In an earlier post, I mentio...

Celebrating Shuzo Fujimoto

Celebrating Shuzo Fujimoto

Shuzo Fujimoto in 2006 (image courtesy of Robert Lang) 2022 will mark the 100th anniversary of Shuzo Fujimoto’s b...

Paper Grain in Origami

Paper Grain in Origami

Paper is made from plant fibers. When hand-made paper is laid using a sieve, a single sheet is produced at a time. Manual movements of the sieve cause the fi...

Naming Origami Models

Naming Origami Models

In this blogpost I suggest new terms useful for the discussion of origami model naming, and present naming conventions from different artists, including myse...

Joisel Award 2021

Joisel Award 2021

Until May 31st, 2021, you can nominate candidates for this year’s Joisel Award. If you noticed any outstanding origami this y...

Coloring Paper with Inkjet Printer

Coloring Paper with Inkjet Printer

When folding Stars and Squares, I decided to try coloring Elephant Hide paper by just printing it over with a uniform color u...

Two Hexagons from A4 Minus Square

Two Hexagons from A4 Minus Square

Have you noticed that the strip which stays behind when you cut a square from an A4 sheet of paper, is just the right size for cutting two small hexagons?

Pajarita Monument in Zaragoza

Pajarita Monument in Zaragoza

This monument to the origami Pajarita advertises EMOZ, one of the few origami museums in the world. Both the monument and the...

Envelopener usage and maintenance

Envelopener usage and maintenance

Envelope openers are very useful tools for origami folders and other craftspeople, but they do have a number of quirks. After answering a question about gett...

Introducing Building Block Units

Introducing Building Block Units

My article, Introducing Building Block Units, was published in The Fold. This text describes my Building Block Units (BBUs) a...

Prior art found for some units

Prior art found for some units

After searching for prior art of origami units I designed, I found out that two had been published before by others. Added appropriate credit on Swallowtail ...