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Origami, Plain and Simple (with Tom Hull, St. Martin's Press, 1994) Magic and Meaning (with Eugene Burger, Hermetic Press, 1995; expanded, 2009) Folding Money Fooling: How to Make Entertaining Novelties from Dollar Bills (Kaufman, 1997) Frog Tales: How To Fold Jumping Frogs From Poker Cards and do Five Tricks with Them (H & R Magic Books, 2001)
The origami crane diagram, using the Yoshizawa–Randlett system. The Yoshizawa–Randlett system is a diagramming system used to describe the folds of origami models. Many origami books begin with a description of basic origami techniques which are used to construct the models.
Jumping frog. Action toys include birds or butterflies with flapping wings, beaks that peck, and frogs that hop, [1] as well as popular traditional models like the fortune teller. Paper poppers or bangers are models that make a noise when flicked down hard. Some action origami is designed to accompany a story whilst it is built.
Origami cranes The folding of an Origami crane A group of Japanese schoolchildren dedicate their contribution of Thousand origami cranes at the Sadako Sasaki memorial in Hiroshima. Origami ( 折り紙 , Japanese pronunciation: [oɾiɡami] or [oɾiꜜɡami] , from ori meaning "folding", and kami meaning "paper" ( kami changes to gami due to ...
Martin Gardner included this fold, described as both a bug catcher and fortune-teller, in a column in Hugard's Magic Monthly, titled "Encyclopedia of Impromptu Magic", in the 1950s. [22] Although the phrase "cootie catcher" has been used with other meanings in the U.S. for much longer, [ 23 ] the use of the phrase for paper cootie catchers in ...
Between the Folds is a 2008 film documentary about origami. Directed by Vanessa Gould and broadcast on Independent Lens, the film received a 2010 Peabody Award. [1] Notable origami artists featured in the film include Erik and Martin Demaine, Tom Hull, Éric Joisel, Satoshi Kamiya, Robert J. Lang, and (using archival footage) Akira Yoshizawa.
The Huzita–Justin axioms or Huzita–Hatori axioms are a set of rules related to the mathematical principles of origami, describing the operations that can be made when folding a piece of paper. The axioms assume that the operations are completed on a plane (i.e. a perfect piece of paper), and that all folds are linear.
Tim the grandfather frog helps his babies learn to jump as a team along to a special song. Charli plays a jumping game with an origami frog. Nathan becomes a birdwatcher, looking for rare creatures at the imaginary Kitchen Sink Swamp. Charli sings about five little ducks using finger puppets.