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  2. History of origami - Wikipedia

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    The folding of two origami cranes linked together from the first known technical book on origami Hiden senbazuru orikata by Akisato Rito, published in Japan in 1798. The history of origami followed after the invention of paper and was a result of paper's use in society.

  3. Origami - Wikipedia

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    Origami tessellation is a branch that has grown in popularity after 2000. A tessellation is a collection of figures filling a plane with no gaps or overlaps. In origami tessellations, pleats are used to connect molecules such as twist folds together in a repeating fashion.

  4. Paper toys - Wikipedia

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    Origami crane. Paper toys date back to ancient times. The history of paper toys can be traced back to the art of origami (or-i-GA-me).The word is based on the Japanese words Ori, which means to fold, and Kami, which means paper. However origami's roots are from China and it spread to Japan somewhere around the sixth century.

  5. Akira Yoshizawa - Wikipedia

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    Akira Yoshizawa (吉澤 章, Yoshizawa Akira, 14 March 1911 – 14 March 2005) was a Japanese origamist, considered to be the grandmaster of origami.He is credited with raising origami from a craft to a living art.

  6. Chinese paper folding - Wikipedia

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    Chinese paper folding, or zhezhi (), is the art of paper folding that originated in medieval China.. The work of 20th-century Japanese paper artist Akira Yoshizawa widely popularized the Japanese word origami; however, in China and other Chinese-speaking areas, the art is referred to by the Chinese name, zhezhi.

  7. Yoshizawa–Randlett system - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Origami artist’s latest creation used one piece of paper ...

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    An origami artist from Finland has completed a two and a half year project which used just one sheet of paper and took 109 hours of folding. Juho Konkkola, 24, from Jyväskylä, began planning his ...

  9. Paper model - Wikipedia

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    This may be considered a broad category that contains origami and card modeling. Origami is the process of making a paper model by folding a single piece of paper without using glue or cutting while the variation kirigami does. Card modeling is making scale models from sheets of cardstock on which the parts were printed, usually in full color ...