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Re: Origami Like Output

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Hi,

jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> writes:
>> Also, did you fold the example?  No cutting was originally
>> mentioned.  A different operation.
>
>No, I did not fold. The folding instructions make no sense: how can
>one fold up all eight sides of all the octagons? Perhaps the folding
>instructions are wrong?

   If you print out the quarter size, black and white, version (not
using the code implied by %+ marks) it does fold up.  I have done it
a number of times.  It is a bit fiddy and relies on some give and take
in the paper.  It goes from a square sheet of paper to an odd square
object half the size of the starting square.  One side is four squares.
The other side has a square in the middle, two triangles, four rectangles
partially covered by the triangles, and two little squares left over.
The coloered, four times more complicated, version I have not tried,
though I guess I now will have to try it.  The folds look too small
to execute on an eight and a half inch square piece of paper.

   The fact that all edges of the octagon fold up and all edges of
the large squares fold down is what got me into trying this out.
I think, 1995 has faded quite a bit.  It looks impossible, but
isn't.  So you almost have to try it out.  Well, me back then
anyway.

>
>I own a copy of = E2= 80= 98Dissections: Plane and Fancy= E2= 80= 99,
>by Greg N. Frederickson
>http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521525829/jdaw=20
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521525829/jdaw01=20
>which makes much use of the overlapping tessellation technique. It does see=
>m to be Octagon and square = E2= 86= 94 two squares.

   Interesting.  Will keep an eye out for that sort of thing now.

Regards,

Steve N.

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Origami Like Output Bogus@Embarq.com (Steve) - 2015-09-30 12:19 +0000
  Re: Origami Like Output jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2015-09-30 12:40 -0700
    Re: Origami Like Output Bogus@Embarq.com (Steve) - 2015-10-01 13:17 +0000
      Re: Origami Like Output jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2015-10-03 16:03 -0700
        Re: Origami Like Output Bogus@Embarq.com (Steve) - 2015-10-04 14:26 +0000
          Re: Origami Like Output mawisegirl@gmail.com - 2015-10-04 08:29 -0700
          Re: Origami Like Output jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2015-10-04 09:38 -0700
            Re: Origami Like Output Bogus@Embarq.com (Steve) - 2015-10-04 17:13 +0000
          Re: Origami Like Output Bogus@Embarq.com (Steve) - 2015-10-08 11:50 +0000

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