Do you memorise models

Starscream · Post by **Starscream** » October 3rd, 2009, 8:13 pm

I find myself looking for good models and then memorising them, like hideo komatsu's fox or satoshi's chocobo, do all of you try and remember models or just fold and forget

StarPartener · Post by **StarPartener** » October 3rd, 2009, 9:21 pm

I try to memorized some models that people enjoy seeing. I memorized how to fold Kawasaki's Rose (new version), 3 to 11 Stage Tesellation by Shuzu Fugimoto (spelling?), Satoshi Kamiya's Horse 1.1, Satoshi Kamiya's Pegasus, Spiral Snail Shell, and Michael LaFosse's Alexander Swallowtail Butterfly. Hideo Komatsu's fox is a great model to memorize.

DanDaMan · Post by **DanDaMan** » October 3rd, 2009, 11:19 pm

If I fold a model just once, I usually have it memorized. I can fold any model I've ever folded just by memory.

ftangdude55 · Post by **ftangdude55** » October 4th, 2009, 12:06 am

I once had Lang's Miura-Ken Beauty Rose memorised. Now I don't...
Usually, if I fold a model a couple times, and don't fold anything else, I can remember the folding sequence very well, that's how I remembered the aforementioned model.

ahudson · Post by **ahudson** » October 4th, 2009, 2:38 am

DanDaMan wrote:If I fold a model just once, I usually have it memorized. I can fold any model I've ever folded just by memory.

Back in high school I used to have near-perfect origami memory, but when I started folding more (and folding more complex models) I remembered less and less of each model, to the point that now I have to fold most models at least four times to memorize them. Simple models I can still catch in one or two foldings though.

An odd consequence of this is that I can't remember how to fold some of the things I've designed and diagrammed, because I didn't fold them enough...

Kijjakarn · Post by **Kijjakarn** » October 4th, 2009, 4:50 am

I memorise only favourite models, because after that I can enjoy folding them without any diagrams, only in my head. However, memorising CP's is much more easier than that of diagrams.

Happy memorising

yagowe · Post by **yagowe** » October 4th, 2009, 5:00 am

I like to have a handful of models memorized so that I can make them any time I'm sitting around idle without access to my books. Since I actually like to be able to finish models during those times I usually only bother memorizing ones that don't take too long to complete.

I only seem to have a finite space to memorize them, though, so memorizing new ones means that some of my previously memorized ones get forgotten.

DanDaMan · Post by **DanDaMan** » October 4th, 2009, 5:10 am

ahudson wrote:Back in high school I used to have near-perfect origami memory, but when I started folding more (and folding more complex models) I remembered less and less of each model, to the point that now I have to fold most models at least four times to memorize them.

Just another reason why I'm enjoying high school

Plus, I've never folded anything over 80 steps before.

Zoraz · Post by **Zoraz** » October 4th, 2009, 5:21 am

Folding Kamiya's phoenix around 13 times has certainly has its consequences. I have the CP memorized. I also have Lang's mantis memorized (the one with the middle point split), Kamiya's minotaur, and some other simpler models. So, I guess you could say I memorize models.

Kijjakarn · Post by **Kijjakarn** » October 4th, 2009, 5:23 am

Are our brains limited to memorising things? I mean, if you practise folding a model you want to memorise all the steps, by folding it many times, it will automatically infuse into your brain, won't it? And does this mean that we can memorise every thing by practising?

DanDaMan · Post by **DanDaMan** » October 4th, 2009, 5:26 am

Theoretically I would assume that's possible. What exactly do you have in mind?

Kijjakarn · Post by **Kijjakarn** » October 4th, 2009, 7:12 am

What exactly do you have in mind?

Sorry but I don't understand this cleary.

origamimasterjared · October 4th, 2009, 7:13 am

I used to have Bahamut mostly memorized after folding it once or twice. Not any more. I don't have much memorized. Crane, couple butterflies, my Three-headed crane, simple bird base dragon (Bob Neale style), my Bear 1 and 2. Currently I also have Satoshi's Minotaur CP memorized--but that's really because it's kind of a joke of a crease pattern. Actually, CPs make it easy, 'cause you can pretty much remember a few basic structures from a CP, and memorize the reference points, and fill in the rest easily.

spiritofcat · Post by **spiritofcat** » October 4th, 2009, 1:57 pm

I tend to memorise the models that I fold.
For simple models I find that I only have to fold it from diagrams once and then I can fold it again from memory.
More complex ones need to be folded a couple of times to get them to stick.
If I don't fold a model for a while I may forget it.
My old favourites that are well memorised include Waterbomb, Flapping Bird, Traditional Gondola, another traditional boat, Jackstone, Sonobe Module.

FrumiousBandersnatch · October 5th, 2009, 2:35 pm

Actually, CPs make it easy, 'cause you can pretty much remember a few basic structures from a CP, and memorize the reference points, and fill in the rest easily.

Yeah, that's how I mastered Calculus and String Theory, and came up with a solution to Cold Fusion...all last weekend.