The Origami Forum

On amazon.co.uk there is a new Lang book mentioned, called 'Origami 4'. It is listed beside the Tesselations book. Does anyone know if there is yet another new book in the making? It has a release date for the end of this year, but I think that is fictive...

Sorry if this was noticed before, I have been out of the Origami arena for a while...

I got an E-mail from Amazon.com telling me it's going to be released on Tuesday, Dec 30. No picture, though. No mention on Lang's website, either. The Amazon details say it's published by AK Peters (the same as Origami Design Secrets) and costs $59.00. It's categorized as "Hardcover."

Would it go too far to send Dr. Lang an email about this? We have been in contact in the past.

Its a book of the proceedings of "The Fourth International Conference on Origami in Science, Mathematics, and Education (4OSME)" much like the past book on 3 OSME by Tom Hull. It was recently discussed on the O-List. I'll post Robert's reply:

"I have been horribly delinquent in pulling this together, but I am
spending most of my holidays on editing and formatting with the goal of
getting the MS ready to deliver in the next few weeks. (Contributors should
expect to receive edited versions of their articles shortly. Some already
have!)

Now, that probably means mid-spring at best for final MS readiness (it still
would have to go through the publisher's editing process), and so probably a
summer or fall publication date. The publisher has provided no publication
date (since I have provided no MS delivery date), so I don't know where
amazon gets their information. Perhaps wishful thinking. At any rate, it is
coming, but don't go sending them any checks just yet.

(And for the inevitable follow-up question; once I've gotten that MS off, I
will return my attentions to the next book, which will cover techniques for
designing geometric and mathematical single-sheet origami, including some
stuff on tessellations.)

(And speaking of tessellations, the pioneer of origami tessellations in the
US, Ron Resch, has been posting pix of his early work on his website,
http://www.ronresch.com. Definitely worth checking out.)"

It's worth noting that the dates marked as the "publication date" for catalog inventories are notoriously wrong - it's something that gets penciled in often a year or two in advance, so they're often very inaccurate.

It is indeed the 4OSME proceedings, and they'll be a ways off. After that is the tessellation/geometric/curved origami book, which I am very excited about, but I think that's still taking form and is quite a ways out from being completed.

We visited his studio in November and he had a bunch of interesting curved tessellation structures that he was scoring with his new laser cutter. I am very envious of his toys :)

I'm hoping that his book on geometric stuff will be something like ODS for geometric origami; such a thing would be very useful IMHO.

-Eric Gjerde

... new Laser cutter ... toy....

Does he get those types of toys, because one of his "hobbies" is Laser Physics ?



- Hank Simon