28 Aug
The 16-Sided Compass Rose Jar, shooting down the interior, to show the compass rose.
A crease pattern to follow shortly.
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28 Aug
The 16-Sided Compass Rose Jar, showing the one-sheet hyperboloid shoulder and iris rim closure. This one is made of a 12×18 inch piece of 50# art paper. Note that the interior is the same color as the exterior. This model has no white showing.
Compass rose jars, no matter how many sides, have the some interesting [...]
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14 Aug
CP (American Letter)
CP (A4)
Slideshow
Update: now there’s an instructables.com tutorial with video and everything!
It all started in a Marketing and Recruiting meeting at this telecom call center I was working for. It was at the height of the dot-com idiocy and I must admit, I was being just as idiotic as the next chap. (Hell, [...]
Posted in A4, cd holder, content, letter paper, tsutsumi, twist by: oschene
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08 Aug
This is what I was trying to do when I made the Dollars to Doughnuts! fold. Happy accidents. This is the same in construction - see the hints sheet below - and is actually rather easier to collapse, as the overlap in the middle is graspable.
Threading the stamps is a bit tricky: you have to [...]
Posted in content, creative commons, dollar, open source origami, twist, utilitarian by: oschene
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07 Aug
Okay, it was ten years ago and the countergirl at Kinko’s® wouldn’t make a copy of this photograph until I covered up the trademarked image on the Café Goya® can. I pointed out that it wasn’t meant to be a picture of a coffee can - the can was just there for scale. But she [...]
Posted in catch phrase, content, modular, open source origami, trigonal by: oschene
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