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flickr set: 2010 Origami Holiday Tree - American Museum of Natural History

At the request of el señor Brimstone, I uploaded some photos I snapped of this incredible tree, decorated with origami models of things in the museum, to my flickr account. Happy holidays.

Awesome! Thanks for posting it.

That's impressive!
Thanks for sharing this with us!

Thank you for posting this spectacular origami tree !
Some of us are " allergic " to New York , in the winter...
( And it , for some obscure reason, is not available in late June ...)
Thereby, have little opportunity to actually see it .
And thanks to Brimstone, for the wisdom & insight to suggest the posting !

I might mention that David Lister, of BOS, has a nice article about the tree's history.
http://www.britishorigami.info/academic ... _trees.php
A more detailed photo of the tree models , from 2009, may be found on the OUSA site .
http://www.origami-usa.org/holidaytree2009
I'm sure that many of us Forum members enjoy sending in models each year .
Just a guess, of course, but I somewhat doubt that many of us have quite this many models on our own Xmas trees ! I'd be willing to bet, though, that most of us have at least some on our trees ...

That is awesome. We used an origami tree topper for a couple years (we find wild trees that don't always have a strong central stem, so paper is ideal), but I don't think I've ever made ornaments to hang.

I re-uploaded the photos to a free hosting site that stores them at the original resolution (2136x2848) because flickr decimated them to a stingy 768 x 1024. Unfortunately you have to click each image's thumbnail three times to get to the original. This is the best site I could find that keeps original image size.

http://www.bluemelon.com/origamitourist ... to-1052286

Despite some camera shake, at angles where there was nothing to lean against, and low lighting, and distance, there is a fair amount of detail of individual models. Here's an example:

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