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I was at my local art store this weekend to get more foil paper and saw this stuff called "Semi-Transparent Origami Paper." It looks kinda like screen projector paper or something.

Has anyone used this stuff? Sounds interesting to use.

why don't you just try out?

I was but they only had a pack of 500! I didn't need that many sheets.

If it is this: http://www.amazon.com/x/dp/B0025TZ5MC
it looks like usual Transparent paper to me. Not so easy to handle but with stunning results. While folding you have to be careful because every Crease is visible.

Here's a model folded with Transparent paper of what I believe it is (the colours and size just look exactly like the stuff I have):

I really like working with semi-transparent paper. It's true that every crease will be visible, so you better work precisely, but you can get stunning results with it. I especially like it for tessellations. Here are a couple of models I folded from such paper:

http://www.happyfolding.com/gallery-fuj ... er_folding
http://www.happyfolding.com/gallery-walker-snowflake
http://www.happyfolding.com/gallery-diaz-secretary_bird
http://www.happyfolding.com/gallery-gje ... _triangles
http://www.happyfolding.com/gallery-konrad-star_puff

It's especially nice if you apply backlighting:

http://www.happyfolding.com/gallery-fuse-spiral
http://www.happyfolding.com/gallery-gje ... d_hexagons
http://www.happyfolding.com/gallery-gje ... e_and_four
http://www.happyfolding.com/gallery-nol ... cklighting

Of course, I don't know the quality of the paper that the store sells.

-- Sara

Hey Origami_8 is that model flat? at first glance it looked popped out and flat at the same time!

It's slightly popped out even though you can press it flat, so yes in a way it is flat and popped out at the same time

Not sure, but if you like the idea of semi-transparent, you can look for paper called Glassine (in the US, Pergamyn in Europe). It's kinda like wax paper, but with a plastic feel rather than a waxy feel.

Tracing paper has some nice properties.

And, if you want something a little more translucent (I don't know what "more" translucent means), you might try baker's parchment paper (from Reynolds wrap?) that you can use for cooking.

- Hank Simon

I would imagine that there are several sources of glassine, but the one, easily accessible, that I'm familiar with, is from Martha Stewart, in craft stores or online .
Comes in a neat 1 inch tube, 3 sheets of 24 inch by 36 inch, several different colours .
One of my future experiments will be to try mating it with tissue paper, but, as yet, don't know if that will be successful .