The Problem with Dollars
There are several. Like, who has them and what they’re doing with them. Another issue is that they’re too small for complex folding and not easily available in all areas.
I was thinking about the fold I opened this site with, the Dollars to Doughnuts fold. If you are in, oh, I don’t know, the National University of Singapore or Omsk or the Faroes, maybe, you might not have lots of dollars on hand. Or maybe you have just a couple and you’d like to practice a bit on something first. Something big with the lines drawn on it, so you can see what you’re doing.
Behold the Big Bill Dollar to Doughnuts pdf. It’s way big, 2.4 MB. The bill is 10? inches by 4? inches (or 291.5 centiliters, for those of you using the système vichyssoise d’unités) and has the crease pattern in conventional dashes and dots emblazoned upon it. There’s still a dollar sized CP and a hints sheet, too.
We think that this reproduction of the dollar bill is legal, but it’s hard to say what’s legal anymore because the enforcement of laws is now in the hands of double minded men, unstable in all their ways.
Would it be possible to fold two “Dollar Donuts” that are linked? Each of them passing right through the hole of the other?
August 2nd, 2006 at 9:08 pmYes, it is – but I don’t think you’d have enough room to make a chain of them. And a chain would be kind of cool. Need a new design for that.
August 3rd, 2006 at 4:08 amThe mockery of the French measurement system is a given on this blog, though sometimes the humor doesn’t translate well.
Not that that will stop me. Newtons, hectares…bah, humbug.
August 3rd, 2006 at 10:08 am“The bill is 10? inches by 4? inches (or 291.5 centiliters, for those of you using the système vichyssoise d’unités)”
Inches x inches cannot be converted to liters – which is a measure of space – not area. Inches x inches convert to square centimeters. I get 10? inches by 4? inches to be 304.8 square centimeters.
So maybe I should try folding a euro.
August 3rd, 2006 at 4:09 amcan u teach me step by step to fo,d that
April 26th, 2007 at 1:43 pmcan u teach me step by step to do a donut plz
April 26th, 2007 at 1:44 pmSure, come on by. I live in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
April 28th, 2007 at 9:26 am