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Crease Patterns for Folders
In recent years, a new form of written instruction has become common within the modern art of origami: the crease pattern (often referred to by its abbreviation, CP). Conventional origami diagrams describe a figure by a folding sequence — a linear step-by-step pattern of progression. Crease patterns, by contrast, provide a one-step connection from the […]
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Background Update (2024): Mu-Tsun Tsai has created a web-based version of ReferenceFinder (and fixed a longstanding bug in the original source code along the way). He is continuing to develop this version: follow it here. You can also find the original source code (with bug corrected) on my own GitHub repo. During the development of […]
Continue ReadingOrigami Diagramming Conventions
Diagramming, Part I These articles were written in 1989–1991. Despite many changes in the origami world over the following decades, the recommendations remain basically sound. I’ve updated a few bits with some footnotes. Origami is an international phenomenon that has moved far beyond its traditional boundaries of Japan and Spain. Its practitioners are found world-wide, […]
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