In preparation for this friday’s event I have been going on a bit of a paper folding rampage lately. Following are some notes:
Folding (I)
Popular wisdom has it that any flat thing may only be folded in half 7 or 8 times. Britney Gallivan, however, has taken it upon herself to show this myth who. is. boss. and has folded first a piece of gold leaf, then some paper and then a bed sheet in half TWELVE TIMES.
“I Folded it myself. I am genius folder.”
Folding (II)
Y. Nishimura makes beautiful folded op-art.
That’s all.
Cutting (interlude).
Peter Calleson makes these incredible, mikroman style, artworks made from single pieces of A4 paper cut and folded to create magical dioramas.
Folding (III)
Paul Haeberli teaches us how to fold a structural folded plate. (From 1994! Is this the oldest page on the internets?)
Folding (IV)
Finally, Robert J Lang makes all kinds of crazy ass Polypolyhedra:
Visit his site for more and download the pdf of a presentation featuring more graphs and diagrams than necessary.
Now, just how to use this for a paper outfit is another thing. I am certainly not going to fold a lifesize polypolyhedra - although rolling into a party in a giant paper wrecking ball is certainly tempting. So, any ideas on how to actually use this stuff to make into an outfit are welcome in the comments below…
December 23rd, 2005 at 9:05 pm
Hi, I tired the bed sheet folding thing to no success. I went to her folding web site and never saw where she mention folding a sheet. I did the simple calculations listed there and found the sheet would have to be over 250 yards on a side to fold it 12 times. Where did you get the sheet information from? What size bed do you have? Were you just quoting something she did not say as humor. The equation did predict the number of times I folded it. But not twelve.