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Hi everyone

I'm looking for a simple method to divide into thirds the long side of an A4 sheet of paper.
Any hints?

Thanks in advance
Francesco

The simplest style would be just estimating.
Make the paper into an "S" shape and fold the edges into place. Should be quite easy.

How you divide a square into 3rds, works fine with A4 paper too.
There are some links:

viewtopic.php?t=5713
http://origami.gr.jp/Archives/People/CA ... /02-e.html

Though i use to do it like folding it in half, and one diagonal, and matching the paper's vertex with one of the half's vertex, it should cross the diagonal, there will be the 3rd

A pdf here: http://www.papercrane.org/downloads/thirds.pdf

and a video-tutorial by Sara Adams describing 3 methods here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07uKsmizwBY

Hope that helps.

Thanks everybody!

I think I'll use the S shape

@Diopside: this is your method?

Not mine, but i use that

For information folding general proportions (binary, rational, irrational, and numerically approximate), Robert Lang has a quite exhaustive article on methods currently in use:

http://www.langorigami.com/science/hha/ ... ctions.pdf