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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.
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.
To entertain Molly, the two read Fun with Paperfolding (1928), an early instructional book on origami—then more commonly known as paper folding—written by the magicians William D. Murray and Francis J. Rigney. [3] [4] [a] Because the book's instructions were difficult to understand, Kruskal did not learn the more complicated pieces. After ...
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 ...
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.
Harbin wrote many books on the subject, beginning with Paper Magic (illustrated by the young art student, the Australian Rolf Harris who in the middle of the project, caught the origami idea and contributed several intricate models himself) in 1956, and was the first President of the British Origami Society.
The Bug Wars were origami contests among members of the Origami Detectives (Tanteidan in Japanese) which started when one member made a bug, a horned beetle with outspread wings, from a single sheet of paper: this design provoked other members to design more complex origami in the shape of bugs, such as wasps and praying mantises.