The Origami Forum

H, sorry if this seems a strange post...

I remember a game that I used to play as a kid where you would take a piece of paper, fold it into thirds, and then draw on it.

One person would draw a head on the top 3rd, and then fold the paper behind so that that part was hidden. They would however allow two small lines from the neck to run on to the middle of the paper.

The next person would then repeat this, drawing a body; finally the last person would add legs and then unfold the paper-allowing the whole (very!) bizarre picture to be seen.

I was just wondering if it would be possible to make a similar origami project.

If for example, a page was split into 4, and these sections were assigned to a 'head/body/legs/wings' etc. do you think several people could take it in turns, making parts of a crease pattern, and then finally folding their section as intended?

And yes, it has been a long, quiet day

It could work, although the basis for the model would probably have to be box-pleating, since it is a lot harder to connect sections of a crease pattern than drawing a few lines. It could be very interesting.

I know this game, but we always folded the paper after drawing the needed part and did five parts instead of three (hat, head, upper body including arms and belly, lower body including legs, feet).
Doing this in Origami seems very hard to me.

Yeah, especially if one guy takes an hour drawing a box pleated pattern and then realises it does not fit with the other 3- that would be a pity.

Well, the main idea behind the game is that you don't know what the other one has drawn/folded when you are drawing/folding your part, and this would be very hard to accomplish in Origami.

That is why box-pleating would work well. As opposed to pure circle-packing, box-pleated structures fit very well with other box-pleated structures. The only thing that would need to be done is to mutually decide on a grid size and a division of the paper for different body parts. Perhaps it would be better with only 2 or 3 people-upper body/lower body or head, arms, and legs/torso.