{"id":185,"date":"2009-04-09T19:31:19","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T00:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zingman.com\/blog\/?p=185"},"modified":"2009-04-09T19:31:19","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T00:31:19","slug":"origami-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/09\/origami-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Origami Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve had the idea for some time to make an origami War Elephant, basically an elephant with a castle on its back, and maybe some bigger tougher tusks and other scary-looking armaments.\u00a0 The main design challenge is how to integrate the castle with the rest of model and still make it out of a single uncut square.\u00a0 The two main options are it would come out of one corner \u2013 probably the where the tail would be, or to make it come out of the middle.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been investigating the\u00a0 middle way.<\/p>\n

There is a good base for this as it turns out. I don\u2019t know the name of it, but it\u2019s a simple, elegant classic tessellation. Jeanie folded one a few years back and it\u2019s been decorating our sideboard ever since.\u00a0 The tower I had in mind had crenulated battlements ringing the top, and something resembling arches on the sides.\u00a0 I had tried a few other approaches to the tower but none of them was very good.\u00a0 This time I started with just the simple base, and it worked out really well.\u00a0 In this simple tower all the edges of the paper are along the bottom edge, so it should be fairly straightforward to embed it in a larger square.<\/p>\n

In fact the cool thing about using a tessellation as a base is that it basically gives you a small square in the middle of your main square.\u00a0 The number, size and position of the small square can be manipulated, so it is very flexible.\u00a0 It also gives these gussets that run along the major axes, effectively giving you four extra points.\u00a0 I might be able to use this make a LotR-style Oliphaunt with four tusks!\u00a0 It also means I can make a bunch of towers together on the same sheet and link them with walls, forming a Castle.\u00a0 I\u2019m thinking of one larger central tower surrounded by four smaller ones.<\/p>\n

I hope to finish these experiments this spring.\u00a0 BTW, my book is coming along.\u00a0 I have twelve models diagrammed now, and hope to get to sixteen by the convention in June.<\/p>\n

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