{"id":3164,"date":"2015-08-17T22:13:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T03:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zingman.com\/blog\/?p=3164"},"modified":"2015-08-17T22:13:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T03:13:49","slug":"simple-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/17\/simple-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Simpler Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

You\u2019re probably wondering, hey John wazzup with your origami? Have you finished the Metallic Lokta Flowerball yet? Well I\u2019ll tell ya. It\u2019s about three quarters done and sitting on my table. I got distracted by a conversation with my publisher and I\u2019m back to folding spaceships and airplanes again. He\u2019s encouraging me to shift the focus to a simple-to-intermediate book, with the intention of having a smash hit that sells alot of copies. I like the sound of selling lots of books, but on the downside I\u2019d have to let go of the more complex ones, some of which are my favorites, and maybe put them in another book down the line or find some other outlet to publish them. On the plus side those models are a real pain to diagram anyway.<\/p>\n

In any event I\u2019d need to come up with some simpler models, ideally under 30 steps. First I looked at my UFO, which is about 50 steps and admittedly fairly difficult to fold. I taught it to a fan one late-night folding session at Centerfold and it took about an hour. I came up with a new Flying Saucer that uses traditional 22.5 degree geometry instead of 15 degrees, and has a much simpler way to develop the center dome. It\u2019s takes 10 or 15 minutes to fold and is probably about 20 or 25 steps. Score one!<\/p>\n

Then I looked at my Rocket Ship, which is about 55 or 60 steps, including lots of prefolding. I came up with a kick-ass substitute rocket, an evolution of my Retro Rocket, which about 18 steps. I\u2019m calling it Rocket Ship III.<\/p>\n

I was on a roll, so just came up with another model I\u2019m calling Rocket Plane. It\u2019s based loosely on a plane I saw at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in the experimental hangar. Three for three here. Woo-hoo!<\/p>\n

Next I took a look at my Biplane. This is one of faves at the moment, having taught it at two conventions, but at 50 steps it\u2019s probably too complex. In any event it\u2019s hard to make it look good unless you use foil paper or wetfold it. So I came up with a model I\u2019m calling the Monoplane. It\u2019s got alot of the same look and feel, but without the bottom wing, and without the accompanying complexity. I can probably take this idea and make two or three cool planes out of it, maybe even a helicoptor.<\/p>\n

Lastly I took a look at my Zeppelin. This is one of my hardest models, and would probably be at the end of the book, close to 100 steps. I did come up with a vastly simplified design that has it own cool look. It\u2019s based on 8ths rather 12ths for the geometry, and has 18 rather than 32 facets in the main part, and has far less prefolding. As an added bonus there\u2019s enough paper at bottom to give the gondola some thrusters, although I haven\u2019t decided if this is the way I want to go. Also I still am working out how to close up the tail nicely; don\u2019t wanna hafta make \u2018em wetfold to make the model work. Can it fit in 30 steps? I dunno, but Imma try.<\/p>\n

Still a couple others to consider, notably my Radio Satellite. I\u2019ll bet I can make some kind of Space Probe that looks just as cool but not so complex. All in all it\u2019s a really good exercise.<\/p>\n

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You\u2019re probably wondering, hey John wazzup with your origami? Have you finished the Metallic Lokta Flowerball yet? Well I\u2019ll tell ya. It\u2019s about three quarters done and sitting on my table. I got distracted by a conversation with my publisher and I\u2019m back to folding spaceships and airplanes again. He\u2019s encouraging me to shift the … Continue reading “Simpler Space”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-origami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}