Post a picture of the shadow of your model

Brimstone · Post by **Brimstone** » October 22nd, 2006, 4:41 am

I once read that there was an origamist that liked origami models based on the shadows they cast. I thought it was a cool idea and from time to time I put models in front of the light to see their shadows. Some of them look terrific, so I thought of opening a thread about this topic.

Here goes my first: Daniel Naranjo's Horse

Some shadows look better with sunlight. Maybe tomorrow I'll take a better picture.

Post by **origami_8** » October 22nd, 2006, 8:58 am

Nice idea, if I donÂ´t forget I will try to make some pictures too

Brimstone · Post by **Brimstone** » October 22nd, 2006, 9:24 pm

I haven't been able to take a proper picture of the shadow in the sunlight. Also could any of the administrators move this thread to the General forum. By mistake I started it at the diagrams forum and it has nothing to do with diagrams

Post by **Daydreamer** » October 22nd, 2006, 11:26 pm

A model that fits here very well would be the "Elephant going North":
http://siberiagami.narod.ru/diagrams2.html

While it looks like an elephant the shadow has the form of an arrow (when light comes from the right direction)

Cupcake · Post by **Cupcake** » October 23rd, 2006, 1:40 am

Very interesting... make sence when you think about it, though

ye_chenchen · Post by **ye_chenchen** » October 25th, 2006, 12:03 pm

good.......

wolf · Post by **wolf** » January 7th, 2007, 3:45 pm

Brimstone wrote:Indeed. I opened a thread once about posting nice shadows of models but it did not receive much attention

I guess maybe sometimes we just don't notice the shadows.

But here's one.

Brimstone · Post by **Brimstone** » January 7th, 2007, 3:58 pm

Great model and great shadow. Congratulations

Frydrych · Post by **Frydrych** » January 7th, 2007, 4:28 pm

Hmm... nice topic indeed
I looked for shadows in my gallery and here are some quite instersting, I think.

wolf · Post by **wolf** » January 7th, 2007, 11:35 pm

Nice - loved the one of the wizard!

Brimstone · Post by **Brimstone** » January 8th, 2007, 2:41 pm

wolf wrote:Nice - loved the one of the wizard!

You beat me to that. Excellent shadow.

Brimstone · Post by **Brimstone** » January 27th, 2007, 11:32 pm

Short man with a larger than life attitude

Cupcake · Post by **Cupcake** » January 28th, 2007, 1:06 am

Nice folds (and shadows), Frydrych and Brimstone

Heres my Eastern Dragon, picture taken during breakfast

Rdude · Post by **Rdude** » January 28th, 2007, 10:29 pm

Cool idea!
Here is a shadow of Dr. Lang's Lionfish. Sorry for the poor resolution.

[img]http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/9003/shadowyvx0.png[/img]

Post by **TheRealChris** » March 16th, 2007, 9:24 am

I have done that picture some months ago (6th of july 2006 regarding to the file creation date on my computer). for some reason most people liked it much, although it wasn't done by purpose. the shadow-light-effect came out by pure random. I like that picture much and it was my pc-wallpaper for quite a long time

[img]http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/1861/img2667oa4.th.jpg[/img]