The Origami Forum

Hi, I'm Stella, I'm fifteen and Australian [and new, from the sounds of this nervous first message].

Since high school began, I've become crazy about origami - I find they make great customized presents for friends. In seventh grade, I did water bombs, in year eight cranes and in year nine, turtles. What I've always done at the end of the year is mass-produce tiny ones [5x5cm] and thread them up on pieces of string.

This year, I planned on doing goldfish, but it didn't take me long to realise that ranchus don't work well on itsybitsy paper. I would like to know, does anybody have any ideas for a "good luck" animal such as a goldfish [prosperity], elephant [long life] that "puffs out" to form a 3D figure which will look good "strung up"? It would be nice if it could be something relatively easy - and something that will fold well on very small paper.

Thanks!
-Stella aka Lillo

Hi Stella, thanks for the nice introducion.

I would recommend Lionel Albertino's stuff from "Safari Origami" if you're in search for nice 3dimensional models. his rhino is very good foldable even from tiny paper.

welcome to the list, have a lot of fun.


- Christian

Welcome, Stella!

John Montroll has a goldfish; I have his book, but there's a picutre online at:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/c/t/c ... ldfish.jpg
(I hope that works)

If you can't find the diagrams online, I can fax a copy...

Lori

Hi Stella, Nice to meet you! (I like minigami too!)
I think the best goldfish is Ronald Koh's model.

http://www.geocities.com/albert_s.geo/ronald.htm

He published 'Origami goldfish' in Origami USA.

http://www.origami-usa.org/thesource/agora.cgi

Happy folding day!

Hi, again!

While chatting with a friend, he recommended the following suggestion for an inflatable goldfish (it's from the Paperwonders group on Yahoo):

From: "Martin Gibbs" <martin@g...>
Date: Sun Jun 9, 2002 7:16 pm
Subject: Re: 3d (blow up) fish diagram

Oops! Removed the word base from the second sentence on the first line. I
still don't know if it'll make any sense!

Fold a waterbomb base. Fold as for a waterbomb left and right (but NOT
behind).
Turn over.
Arrange so that the right-angle is at the top.
Fold the right hand sloping edge to lie along the centre.
Repeat on the left.
Fold the left hand flap out. The fold starts from the left-most point and
ends up so that the top edge will lie horizontal. (Don't repeat on the
right)
Fold the left hand assembly over to the right so that you have the lower and
upper parts of the tail.
Holding the tail together - blow up the bottom! And you have a goldfish.

I haven't tried it yet, so I hope it works from these directions (does anyone have a picture of this model?).

Also, there's a fish on http://www.giladorigami.com/ called a Singing Fish that might work.

I've just folded it.

Very nice!!

Thank you so much, everyone, I'm currently in the process of trying all of them out, and so far, they're looking good! Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!

Hey Stella,I'm 15 as well.E-mail me if you want to chat about origami or other stuff.

swollix wrote:Hey Stella,I'm 15 as well.E-mail me if you want to chat about origami or other stuff.

What "OTHER STUFF" to chat about? Got to be careful about people who CLAIM about their age and other things.

Are you an archaeologist ? I do not think that it is useful to dig in old topics to add this kind of comments... And I do not think that swollix is a "sexual predator" or something like this, everybody know that they are all on myspace

Michael LaFosse's "Happy Good Luck Bat" might work.

http://dev.origami.com/images_pdf/luckbat.pdf

And I actually am 15, but I won't suggest that you email me because then I'd sound like a creeper. Maybe about origami, but not "other stuff"

Happy folding!

Congratulations for waking up a topic from 2004!

Very old topic but it reminded me of that simple gold fish.
I folded it again and it is still very cute.

He must feel like an idiot now. He is 15 but she is now 20...