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Peter Engel (born 1959) is an American origami artist and theorist, science writer, graphic designer, and architect. He has written several books on Origami, including Origami from Angelfish to Zen, 10-Fold Origami: Fabulous Paperfolds You Can Make in Just 10 Steps!, and Origami Odyssey.
Origami historian David Mitchell has found many 19th-century European sources mentioning a paper "salt cellar" or "pepper pot" (the latter often folded slightly differently). The first of these to unambiguously depict the paper fortune teller is an 1876 German book for children.
The following are books that happen to have detailed explanations of these techniques, and how the techniques are related to each other: David Lister (29 February 2024). "The Origin of Origami Symbols". British Origami Society. Robert J. Lang (1988). The Complete Book of Origami: step-by-step instructions in over 1000 diagrams. Mineola, NY ...
John Montroll was born in Washington, D.C. [1] He is the son of Elliott Waters Montroll, an American scientist and mathematician.He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from the University of Rochester, a Master of Arts in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, and a Master of Arts in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland.
Hiden senbazuru orikata (ja:秘傳千羽鶴折形), published in 1797, is the oldest known technical book on origami for play. The book contains 49 origami pieces created by a Buddhist monk named Gidō in Ise Province, whose works were named and accompanied by kyōka (狂歌, comic tanka) by author Akisato Ritō (秋里籬島). These pieces ...
The Miura fold is a form of rigid origami, meaning that the fold can be carried out by a continuous motion in which, at each step, each parallelogram is completely flat. This property allows it to be used to fold surfaces made of rigid materials, making it distinct from the Kresling fold and Yoshimura fold which cannot be rigidly folded and ...
Multimodular Origami Polyhedra: Archimedeans, Buckyballs and Duality (Dover, 2002) [6] Beginner's Book of Modular Origami Polyhedra: The Platonic Solids (Dover, 2008) With Arnstein and Lewis Simon, she is a coauthor of the second edition of the book Modular Origami Polyhedra (Dover, 1999), extended from the first edition by Arnstein and Simon. [7]
She started publishing origami books in 1981, and has since published more than 60 books (plus overseas editions) as of 2006. She has created numerous origami designs, including boxes, kusudama , paper toys, masks, modular polyhedra, as well as other geometric forms and objects, such as origami tessellations , with publications in Japanese ...