Models that you can memorize and how do you memorize it ?

[eric_son]

If a model is nasty enough to require multiple attempts, I usually manage to memorize the folding sequence as a side effect.

Ex. Lang's Tarantula from Origami Insects II and Lang's Dancing Crane.

[ahudson]

When attempting memorization, try models that either have a lot of repetition, or develop easily from a base-- John Montroll's Moth and Star are good examples of this.

It helps to have a model that you understand how it works; e.g., you can visualize the steps and comprehend immediately why the creator used them.

Also start with traditional models, they were passed on by memory for generations before they were recorded in a book. work your way up with simpler models, such as many of those made by Kunihiko Kasahara or John Montroll.

But don't worry if you have a hard time memorizing things, a lot of people have that problem. This sort of thing is why people have sheet music in an orchestra, notes for a speech, and so on. In fact, I think that memorization problems for the complex models are part of why diagrams were invented in the first place; Akira Yoshizawa (who invented the standard system of diagramming) created almost 50,000 models, and it's unreasonable to expect that even he had them all memorized, much less anybody else.

[rockmanex6]

Well you dont always memorise it, I see they teach them. Like Kamiya sometime if forgetting they make up new step to complete this model. (new seqence of collapsement) So it just creaton but same result or close