Lion
The second day of the Convention, was also the second day of the class Gilad Naor was teaching on a 200-step open-backed lion by a Japanese folder whose name I can’t pronounce (a model he’d learnt, amazingly, from a crease pattern). I watched this from the side with some consternation, and as midnight drew near, made the rash boast that I could finish designing a just-as-good lion before Gilad finished teaching his…. The class ended five minutes later, so I lost that bet. And then it took me all of the next day (Sunday) to refine my Lion—using a few tricks too that I learnt at the Convention. But now I’m rather proud of it, and am presenting it forthwith. The model has the following selling points: 1. It looks like a lion (kind of). 2. It is closed-backed. 3. It takes advantage of a paper’s duo-tone (if one so desires). 4. It is from a square, not a triangle or rectangle. 5. It uses one of the variants of the Animal Base (first published in the 1993 issue of Manifold), so what is learnt here can be applied elsewhere. 6. It is expressively flexible—the legs are long enough to make the lion standing, seated, crouching, running etc. 7. Last but not least---it costs about 35-40 folding steps, not 200 or some such ridiculous number. This makes it about the cheapest pure-origami lion on the market. And its no less good than those costlier ones, so far as I can see. Here’s a snapshot. And in the time-honored local tradition that Gilad Naor established this weekend, I am presenting it along with a crease pattern, “le’elu she’rotzim lishbor et ha’rosh.” Suggested improvements welcome. Saadya
The second day of the Convention, was also the second day of the class Gilad Naor was teaching on a 200-step open-backed lion by a Japanese folder whose name I can’t pronounce (a model he’d learnt, amazingly, from a crease pattern). I watched this from the side with some consternation, and as midnight drew near, made the rash boast that I could finish designing a just-as-good lion before Gilad finished teaching his…. The class ended five minutes later, so I lost that bet. And then it took me all of the next day (Sunday) to refine my Lion—using a few tricks too that I learnt at the Convention. But now I’m rather proud of it, and am presenting it forthwith. The model has the following selling points: 1. It looks like a lion (kind of). 2. It is closed-backed. 3. It takes advantage of a paper’s duo-tone (if one so desires). 4. It is from a square, not a triangle or rectangle. 5. It uses one of the variants of the Animal Base (first published in the 1993 issue of Manifold), so what is learnt here can be applied elsewhere. 6. It is expressively flexible—the legs are long enough to make the lion standing, seated, crouching, running etc. 7. Last but not least---it costs about 35-40 folding steps, not 200 or some such ridiculous number. This makes it about the cheapest pure-origami lion on the market. And its no less good than those costlier ones, so far as I can see. Here’s a snapshot. And in the time-honored local tradition that Gilad Naor established this weekend, I am presenting it along with a crease pattern, “le’elu she’rotzim lishbor et ha’rosh.” Suggested improvements welcome. Saadya
