Origami and shortcuts
Jan. 13th, 2005 06:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soc_puppetSo thanks very much to Pat for telling me that, instead of insert-->symbol-ing or copy-pasting characters with umlauets, I could just type an 'e' after the letter with umlauets over it and it would sound the same :D!!! And no thanks to my little brother, who could have told me the same thing _but didn't_. Typing in German just got that much easier ^_^
Ran into Chris-senpai in seventh hour. Once I left the computer, I sat down to fold origami from the 'Easy Origami Fold-a-Day Calenar' Mom got me for Christmas, and he complained that everything was too easy. (I couldn't help but agree at first, as the stuff in the front is ueber simple and I'm working my way up to today; I plan to skip the 'sleeping puppy' one and the 'turn a rectangular sheet of paper into a square sheet of paper' as well.) So we went digging through the rest of the days for stuff that looked harder. (Harder in this case meaning you change the shape of something. Like the bowtie.) We found some, though it was only after I skipped ahead to November so I could make the butterfly that was advertised on the front (November 8). On the next day in the calendar was something that Chris considered difficult! A clam!
I gave him a really ugly piece of paper to work with, and he made it. I didn't like it at all, though again, it could've just been the paper.
Afterwards, I looked up our birthdays. I have the second part of an owl origami; he has a star origami. Looked through a few more days, then closed the calendar up, and Senpai started talking about me making up my own origami.
Senpai: You know what we need to make?
Me: What?
Senpai: A box with an octagonal base.
He proceeded to make one up on the spot, and told me that I should figure out how to do it, then sell the instructions -_-... I did figure it out, though it took four pieces of paper.
Today's lesson: Origami is easier to do if you know the order of the folds.
Ran into Chris-senpai in seventh hour. Once I left the computer, I sat down to fold origami from the 'Easy Origami Fold-a-Day Calenar' Mom got me for Christmas, and he complained that everything was too easy. (I couldn't help but agree at first, as the stuff in the front is ueber simple and I'm working my way up to today; I plan to skip the 'sleeping puppy' one and the 'turn a rectangular sheet of paper into a square sheet of paper' as well.) So we went digging through the rest of the days for stuff that looked harder. (Harder in this case meaning you change the shape of something. Like the bowtie.) We found some, though it was only after I skipped ahead to November so I could make the butterfly that was advertised on the front (November 8). On the next day in the calendar was something that Chris considered difficult! A clam!
I gave him a really ugly piece of paper to work with, and he made it. I didn't like it at all, though again, it could've just been the paper.
Afterwards, I looked up our birthdays. I have the second part of an owl origami; he has a star origami. Looked through a few more days, then closed the calendar up, and Senpai started talking about me making up my own origami.
Senpai: You know what we need to make?
Me: What?
Senpai: A box with an octagonal base.
He proceeded to make one up on the spot, and told me that I should figure out how to do it, then sell the instructions -_-... I did figure it out, though it took four pieces of paper.
Today's lesson: Origami is easier to do if you know the order of the folds.
