{"id":756,"date":"2009-11-20T01:06:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T06:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zingman.com\/blog\/?p=756"},"modified":"2009-11-20T01:06:18","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T06:06:18","slug":"everybody-knows-a-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/20\/everybody-knows-a-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Everybody Knows a Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Birds are the new bugs in origami in that making sculptural, realistic birds is trendy these days. Robert Lang has done quite a few, and Seth Friedman\u2019s Blue Bar Pigeon is a recent standout, and other folders as well. So here\u2019s my contribution: a turkey.<\/p>\n

I tackled the subject because I\u2019ve not seen an origami turkey out there that I like. I\u2019ve make several prototypes and I\u2019m pretty happy with the outcome. Mine features a detailed head complete with wattle, a nice round plump body, a fan tail, realistic four-toed feet (better to make it stand), and some nice color change effects. The base is unique and interesting. The feet are developed using a method similar to Robert Lang\u2019s Songbird I in Origami Design Secrets, with little bird bases embedded in two corners. The main base is something like a semi-sunken stretched bird base, except that it use 15 degree symmetry instead of the more typical 22.5. The proportion between the feet and the rest of the body is also based on a 15 degree ratio, which provides some nice symmetries.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately the design folds beautifully from foil but getting it to look good from regular paper is a bit more difficult. My recent folding style has been trending towards thicker papers, but for this model that kind of thing is completely inappropriate. Too many layers in the legs for one thing. So I\u2019m on the hunt for some good paper to use. I have a couple sheets of origamido paper, but neither is two-colored, and I don\u2019t want to risk wasting it on an experimental design. The way the tail comes out of the body seems to turn out a bit different every time. Plus I\u2019d have to wet fold it, and so I\u2019d have to work that out too. So I ordered some foil-backed washi from Nicholas Terry\u2019s website. It\u2019s 35cm square and brown on one side and gold on the other, so with luck that will be perfect for this model. Check back in a few weeks to see how it turns out.<\/p>\n

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And while we\u2019re at it, here are a couple pictures of my Eve, to go with Brian Chan\u2019s Wall-E<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Birds are the new bugs in origami in that making sculptural, realistic birds is trendy these days. Robert Lang has done quite a few, and Seth Friedman\u2019s Blue Bar Pigeon is a recent standout, and other folders as well. So here\u2019s my contribution: a turkey. I tackled the subject because I\u2019ve not seen an origami … Continue reading “Everybody Knows a Turkey”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-origami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}