Clockwork Origami

sigla · Post by **sigla** » March 29th, 2008, 2:33 am

I' ve been doing Origami for about three years. I am at least at a high-intermediate level, I have folded a few Joisel models and a Joseph Wu model, his eastern dragon. I have not tried my hand at designing yet, except for a few hardly-worked-on models.

Now I am trying to pioneer a new phase of Origami. I want to use a system of gears, springs, etc. to make animated Origami. My main goal: a flapping, and hopefully flying, Origami crane. the pieces would have to fit inside, but I am somewhat proficient at micro-origami, so hopefully I can downsize most models.

Any help would be appreciated. And I am aware of, and can fold the Spring into Action model. I would also like the model to be as purist as possible, at least without rectangles, glue, or cuts. Thanks in advance.

Lephantome92 · Post by **Lephantome92** » April 30th, 2008, 8:16 am

oi! that sounds like it'll be hard to do. what you could do is make the crane so that, when you throw it, the wings go up. then, there could be some mechanism inside the crane that will pull the wings back down when they go up high enough.

Brimstone · Post by **Brimstone** » April 30th, 2008, 5:18 pm

You mean something like this:
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BJ-_eWc4O3c&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed>

Ondrej.Cibulka · Post by **Ondrej.Cibulka** » April 30th, 2008, 5:33 pm

It is very funny! But, anyway, it is better to do it by hands, isn't it?

Post by **Daydreamer** » April 30th, 2008, 6:05 pm

Even more fun to do it with your feet

Joseph Wu · Post by **Joseph Wu** » April 30th, 2008, 6:13 pm

Ewww! (Although, that's been done for novelty competitions at various origami conferences!)

Brimstone · Post by **Brimstone** » April 30th, 2008, 11:19 pm

Yeah like this:

sigla · Post by **sigla** » May 1st, 2008, 1:02 am

yeah, something like your vid, brimstone, but with the mechanism inside it, gotta try that foot thing

Ondrej.Cibulka · Post by **Ondrej.Cibulka** » May 2nd, 2008, 9:49 am

Two people (for example) can fold one model - each can use only one hand - another funny competition.

mrsriggins · Post by **mrsriggins** » May 2nd, 2008, 9:53 pm

hahaha I like woman's face on the far right

I'm going to have to try foot folding once- just for the heck of it.

JeossMayhem · Post by **JeossMayhem** » May 3rd, 2008, 9:28 am

Hey guys, my friend just randomly stumbled on this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GNzBFnUAdo

It's a long vid but, load till approx 8:15 and you should pretty much believe she'd fold better than any of us, among other things.