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Showing posts with label Carmen Sprung. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carmen Sprung. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Star Clarissa
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Star Franziska
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Now the 9th model for our countdown: Franziska Star or Stern Franziska, designed by Carmen Sprung with diagrams published in "Origami: 21 Sterne".
The star in the photos is made from 6 units. You may choose from 5 to 8 units. (I just find the 6-unit star cute...hahaha)
Monday, December 23, 2013
Mennorode Star
This origami model is designed by Carmen Sprung.
It uses 12 rectangles of specific ratio and proportion. But, preparing the rectangles need cutting off an edge. Such action makes many people think that the Mennorode Star is not origami anymore.
Well, IT STILL IS. Remember that you are just shaping the paper. It’s like preparing a square from a rectangle. Only internal cuts are not allowed.
When you make the 12 units, you cannot assemble them into a star just yet. The units must be paired (resulting in 6 pairs.) One pair will be assembled into a bimodule. The 6 bimodules will be assembled to form the star. Wew, think about complex assembly.
Making the units and assembling the modules and bimodules are easy, until you have to connect the 2 ends to form the star. This point can be confusing, especially when the paper is too tight. But, once you get the hang of it, making the star can be very addictive. Lel…..I have already made 12 stars.
This star works great as a Christmas Decoration, especially if you use green and red paper. To achieve the star’s best effect, use 6 rectangles for each color (if you use 2 colors.)
(wew….brings so much memories of my stay at our beach house….the sun…the sand…the radioactive jellyfish…)
Sprung has posted the diagrams for this star. http://www.origamiseiten.de/diagrams/Stern_Mennorode_neu.pdf
But if it can be confusing, there are instructional videos in youtube.
It uses 12 rectangles of specific ratio and proportion. But, preparing the rectangles need cutting off an edge. Such action makes many people think that the Mennorode Star is not origami anymore.
Well, IT STILL IS. Remember that you are just shaping the paper. It’s like preparing a square from a rectangle. Only internal cuts are not allowed.
When you make the 12 units, you cannot assemble them into a star just yet. The units must be paired (resulting in 6 pairs.) One pair will be assembled into a bimodule. The 6 bimodules will be assembled to form the star. Wew, think about complex assembly.
Making the units and assembling the modules and bimodules are easy, until you have to connect the 2 ends to form the star. This point can be confusing, especially when the paper is too tight. But, once you get the hang of it, making the star can be very addictive. Lel…..I have already made 12 stars.
This star works great as a Christmas Decoration, especially if you use green and red paper. To achieve the star’s best effect, use 6 rectangles for each color (if you use 2 colors.)
(wew….brings so much memories of my stay at our beach house….the sun…the sand…the radioactive jellyfish…)
Sprung has posted the diagrams for this star. http://www.origamiseiten.de/diagrams/Stern_Mennorode_neu.pdf
But if it can be confusing, there are instructional videos in youtube.
Sternblute
This is a well-known model created by another genius in the world of origami. Her name is Ms. Carmen Sprung.
Somehow, you can also manipulate the number of units, just like the TSU, but there are some limits.
1) The range of units are from 5 to 8.
2) You can only create a star which somehow becomes more 3-D when you lessen the number of units.
The English translation of “Sternblute” (it’s in German) is Starflower, even if the 8-unit version only looks like it and the thing looks more like a miniature wormhole about to suck you up and spit you out in another dimension.
There’s another name for it, and it’s Sterntaler. I do not know what it means, so let’s pretend its the name of a spaceship about to do a cartwheel in the black void of freaking space.
The diagrams can be found in this link: http://www.papierfalten.de/documents/faltanleitungen/8er_sternbluete.pdf
There are also diagrams in Sprung’s book “Origami: 21 Sterne,” yet the price was higher than a man who smoked marijuana, peyote, and any other illegal drug combined.
Such a pity, it really is a nice book……oh well.
Somehow, you can also manipulate the number of units, just like the TSU, but there are some limits.
1) The range of units are from 5 to 8.
2) You can only create a star which somehow becomes more 3-D when you lessen the number of units.
The English translation of “Sternblute” (it’s in German) is Starflower, even if the 8-unit version only looks like it and the thing looks more like a miniature wormhole about to suck you up and spit you out in another dimension.
There’s another name for it, and it’s Sterntaler. I do not know what it means, so let’s pretend its the name of a spaceship about to do a cartwheel in the black void of freaking space.
The diagrams can be found in this link: http://www.papierfalten.de/documents/faltanleitungen/8er_sternbluete.pdf
There are also diagrams in Sprung’s book “Origami: 21 Sterne,” yet the price was higher than a man who smoked marijuana, peyote, and any other illegal drug combined.
Such a pity, it really is a nice book……oh well.
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