oa-d Digest Volume 00 : Issue 9, 10, and 11 Today's Topics: [OA] ANOTHER OA SITE ON THE 'NET [ "Gerry Stormer" ] [OA] Searching for Robert Lamarche [ KSelena@aol.com ] [OA] Making "Mystery Box - Cubes" [ KSelena@aol.com ] [OA] Available new Chatani book publ [ "N. David Martin" ] [OA] Kirigami book [ Hanna Lyons ] RE: [OA] Kirigami book [ "Gerry Stormer" ] Re: i wondered if you could help me? [ Andrew Crawford To: "OA Maillist" Subject: [OA] ANOTHER OA SITE ON THE 'NET Hello all, Just learned of this OA site: http://www.homestead.com/jagoda/index.html from Yugoslavia. It has a couple of original designs and is worth a look. Regards, Gerry Stormer gstormer@home.com http://msnhomepages.talkcity.com/HobbyCt/gstormer/ Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 03:16:27 EDT From: KSelena@aol.com To: oa@evermore.com Subject: [OA] Searching for Robert Lamarche Does anyone know of any current website for Robert Lamarche? He is the fabulous designer who won the OMNI Magazine OA contest in 1989. Back many months ago, I came across Robert Lamarche's website at http://www. geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/8524/Pages/Other.html and even corresponded with him via e-mail. A number of months ago, he decided to take down his site in protest against some new policies at geocities.com and I believe he planned to put up a new site elsewhere. I haven't come across anything on the search engines (except a memorial to his father who recently passed away) and would like to know if anybody else has any info on Robert Lamarche. If you missed his site, you missed seeing his spectacular "Entropy" OA. I certainly hope he decides to put up his site again. K. Selena Kim Bridgewater, NJ USA http://members.aol.com/kselena/ http://members.aol.c om/kselena/OA/oamainpg.html From: KSelena@aol.com To: oa@evermore.com Subject: [OA] Making "Mystery Box - Cubes" A few weeks ago, I made "Mystery Box - Cubes" from "Pop-up Geometric Origami." I found that it was impossible to interlock the pieces without bending/slightly creasing some of the areas. Does anyone know if it's possible to make this OA model without doing that? Thanks, Selena Kim Bridgewater, NJ USA KSelena@aol.com http://members.aol.c om/kselena/OA/oamainpg.html Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 16:05:32 -0700 From: "N. David Martin" To: oa@evermore.com CC: ndavid@istar.ca Subject: [OA] Available new Chatani book published Dec 30,1999 To whom it may concern: The above, entitled Origamic Architecture, published in Japanese by Shokokusha, ISBN 4-395-27046-8, exactly, is available, perhaps elsewhere but cerainly at Sophia Books, Vancouver, Canada, telephone 604 684-0484 or fax 604 684-1683; cost in the store is $48.10 (Cndn). David Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 13:56:19 -0400 From: Hanna Lyons To: Subject: [OA] Kirigami book I just got a new book, "Kirigami: The Art of 3-Dimensional Paper Cutting" by Laura Badalucco. I've thought of kirigami as Japanese paper cutting, and she takes it into folding the cuts into designs that look a LOT like oragamic architecture. For someone new to OA like me, the book contains some very useful information about paper and tools and techniques that we all know are not spelled out in any of Chatani's books -- but I was so surprised to see no mention of Chatani or OA anywhere in this book. It reads to me like an introductory text in OA. I'm wondering if any of you know this book or know of Laura Badalucco or know anything about the relationship between this "kirigami" and OA??? Hanna Lyons Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 21:59:19 -0500 From: "Gerry Stormer" To: "OA Maillist" Subject: RE: [OA] Kirigami book Hi Hanna, Thanks for the information about the new pattern book. I've never heard of the author or the book but it looks and sounds very interesting. I checked Amazon.com and they have this book: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0806944900/qid%3D958185337/102-338446 9-8108006 The pictures of the cards on the cover certainly do look like OA so it is very surprising there's no mention of OA and/or Chatani. I don't know too much about Kirigami but I thought it was kind of like the Japan version of scherenschnitte. I did a search for Kirigami and came up with numerous pages and it appears there is no folding involved just silhouettes of people, animals, etc. Looks like Ms Badalucco is taking Kirigami to the 3-D stage just as Chatani did with origami. Thanks again for the info!! Gerry Stormer gstormer@home.com http://msnhomepages.talkcity.com/HobbyCt/gstormer/ -----Original Message----- From: Hanna Lyons [mailto:hanna@ipass.net] Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 12:56 PM To: oa@evermore.com Subject: [OA] Kirigami book I just got a new book, "Kirigami: The Art of 3-Dimensional Paper Cutting" by Laura Badalucco. I've thought of kirigami as Japanese paper cutting, and she takes it into folding the cuts into designs that look a LOT like oragamic architecture. For someone new to OA like me, the book contains some very useful information about paper and tools and techniques that we all know are not spelled out in any of Chatani's books -- but I was so surprised to see no mention of Chatani or OA anywhere in this book. It reads to me like an introductory text in OA. I'm wondering if any of you know this book or know of Laura Badalucco or know anything about the relationship between this "kirigami" and OA??? Hanna Lyons Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 13:34:00 -0700 From: Andrew Crawford To: "bond1" Cc: oa@evermore.com Subject: Re: i wondered if you could help me? At 04:00 PM 5/28/2000 +0100, you wrote: Dear Sir/Madam. I am in year 10 at Lostock hall high school doing GCSE Graphics. At the moment in graphics we are doing a project that involves us having to design our own pop-up cards. I searched the Internet and came across your page. I thought your thumbnails where really good and maybe you could send me some more infomation about how to make one of them or some general rules about making pop-up cards. This would be really helpfull in my reasearch and also when I come to design my card. Thank you for your time. Andrea Bond. Please excuse the slow reply. I have been unavailable for the last two weeks. Masahiro Chatani (the originator of the Origamic Architecture style of pop-up card) outlines his design process in the introductory section of his book Origami Architecture: American Houses Pre-Colonial to Present ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0870118374/arizonaaikidoA .) There was also a segment with Joyce Aysta (an OA designer) on the Carol Duvall Show on HGTV some time last year. In it, she discusses the basics of OA design. I may be able to track down a copy of a video tape of it, if you are interested. The best suggestion I can give is to study cards you like and try to emulate the style. I generally design my cards in a vector graphics program (such as Corel Draw or Adobe Illustrator.) This allows me to lay out the cut and fold lines very precisely. I am forwarding this message to the OA discussion list. Some of the folks there may be able to provide some additional suggestions on card design. I'll forward any replies that they don't CC to you. However, you may wish to consider joining the list yourself. There are sign up instructions and archives here: http://oa.evermore.com/oamaillist.php3 Andrew Crawford Andrew@Evermore.com