Uhmm ... what exactly is boxpleating?

noob · Post by **noob** » March 24th, 2008, 2:53 pm

Excuse my ignorance but I was wondering because everyone keeps using the term.

Thanks

Post by **Daydreamer** » March 24th, 2008, 3:21 pm

And that's exactly the reason why there is a sticky topic about crease patterns which includes a part about box-pleating:
viewtopic.php?t=2131

Note to everyone: The sticky topics include a lot of important information that a lot of people already have asked for. So it's a good idea to read them

noob · Post by **noob** » March 24th, 2008, 11:18 pm

oh.... i'll go check there

Finward · Post by **Finward** » March 31st, 2008, 10:58 pm

Hi. Sorry for insisting in an almost deleted thread, but im still quite confused. As an example: Is Lang's tarantula boxpleated? It has al the shape of boxplating, but with distorted angles...
Is Chan's attack of the kraken boxpleated? It has everything of boxpleating, except of the sails.
I have another few questions, but i cant remeber them now...

origamimasterjared · Post by **origamimasterjared** » April 1st, 2008, 12:11 am

Box-pleating refers to folding where all of the creases in the crease pattern are orthogonal.

Pleat-sinking is the more general term of thinning the flaps of the base by sinking. That would apply to Lang's Tarantula.

Of course there are hybrids, such as Satoshi Kamiya's Cyclomattus Metallifer, which use both pleat-sinking and box-pleat methods. Some of Lang's recent beetles do that too.

Box-pleating is the result of square-packing, while pleat-sinking is the result of circle-packing.

godzebu · Post by **godzebu** » April 1st, 2008, 12:32 am

Hey Noob,

if you have basic understanding of "class origami bases" and terms then
read this article

http://contract.home.pipeline.com/ELIAS.htm

I believe it may help

Happy Folding

zebu

Finward · Post by **Finward** » April 1st, 2008, 1:19 am

Noob...
No, thanks god not. I do understand class origami bases and terms. Im not a beginner in this subject. I know that origami is extremely flexible, and a technique can be so easily turned to other one, that sometimes its hard for me to see where its the line between a technique and another. Thats where my question comes from.
Blah blah blah...
The thing i forgot before is that when a waterbomb shape inside a boxpleated pattern is trasnformed into a bird base, for whatever reason, ¿it is still boxpleating?

Post by **Daydreamer** » April 1st, 2008, 1:29 am

Finward wrote:Noob...

I think this was meant to refer to the original topic starter

Finward wrote:The thing i forgot before is that when a waterbomb shape inside a boxpleated pattern is transformed into a bird base, for whatever reason, is it still boxpleating?

Well that depends on what you regard as base of the model. In many cases you can first fold a purely boxpleated base and then create the bird base angles from that. So forming those bird bases might be regarded as the first steps of shaping the model. Often you can't clearly draw a clear line where forming the base ends and shaping the model starts.

Finward · Post by **Finward** » April 1st, 2008, 1:30 am

Ouh!!! Thats what happens to me for my %& pride...

Kijjakarn · Post by **Kijjakarn** » May 19th, 2008, 1:10 pm

Uuum... I think box pleating is the pattern of origami which means you have to crease the paper in to many square blocks and you can fold alond the crease making new folds on it.