Wizard fingers (terminology)

[plastgeek]

One of my friends was working on a CP recently, and was having trouble with the hands of the model. He asked me for help, and I said to do wizard fingers, and he understood what to do immediately. That got me wondering: Did other designers use fingers like Kamiya's Wizard before the wizard, or was Kamiya a pioneer in that respct?

[ahudson]

Umm, pretty sure Satoshi Kamiya was not the first person to use a pleat graft to put on fingers. I don't know who was, but I'd bet that technique is almost as old as Kamiya is.

*edit* I started wondering about this actually, so I started doing some digging around. It looks like Kamiya was already using this technique by 1996, so certainly his Wizard was not the first model to do so: http://www.folders.jp/g/1996/9617.html

Hojyo Takashi had picked up the idea by 1998, and perhaps earlier, given the refinement of this example: http://origami.gr.jp/~hojyo/118centaur.html

At this point, the internet is much less helpful in finding examples, and it'll take somebody that was actually around back then to say whether these were the earliest examples or not.

[orislater]

i actually think plastgeek is talking about pulling apart the pleats and closed sinking the bottom edges, then reverse folding the fingers. like in ancient dragon and of course the wizard.