Origami Design Secrets

Origamist388 · Post by **Origamist388** » April 18th, 2010, 9:46 am

Should I buy the book "Origami Design Secrets" for my birthday?Since €50,- is alot of money,but the book also has alot of things I want,I don't really know if I should buy it.

chesslo · Post by **chesslo** » April 18th, 2010, 10:33 am

I find the book great, its great for bed time reading!

Origamist388 · Post by **Origamist388** » April 18th, 2010, 12:13 pm

594 pages of bedtime reading?Now THAT's alot

Post by **TheRealChris** » April 18th, 2010, 1:02 pm

maybe origami design secrets is one of the books that you surely need to OWN but not necessarily need to READ

its a great book with good models but also a worthy pool of design-knowledge. a big YES for buying that book

Argil · Post by **Argil** » April 18th, 2010, 1:46 pm

Yes , you should it is better than the holy bible

eric_son · Post by **eric_son** » April 19th, 2010, 7:00 am

For me, reading ODS was like reading Bjarne Stroustrup's book on C++ (or a book about Java programming).

Bohohohohoring.

(But once I was able to undertand a bit about Circle packing, I got really motivated to continue reading until the last few chapters...)

origamimasterjared · Post by **origamimasterjared** » April 19th, 2010, 7:46 am

In that case you'll really want to stay far away from Robert's next book…

chesslo · Post by **chesslo** » April 19th, 2010, 7:58 am

Its 594 pages of action packed fun!

Froy · Post by **Froy** » April 19th, 2010, 3:33 pm

I would say YES! buy it.

ODS has been my bed book for almost 2 years (actually it was my frist Origami book)

But I think you should think about this:

1- If you want to get a more deep knowledge about origami, go for it.

2- If you want a book just by the pleasure of folding, go for other book.

Nevertheless ODS is a must-have book for every origamist (I think).

Origamist388 · Post by **Origamist388** » April 19th, 2010, 3:55 pm

Of course I want SOME diagrams or CP's in it,but I mostly want to buy it so I can finally really understand origami and to be able to design my own models.

Its 594 pages of action packed fun!

I thought circle-packed fun

eric_son · Post by **eric_son** » April 20th, 2010, 4:05 am

origamimasterjared wrote:In that case you'll really want to stay far away from Robert's next book…

You mean, Origami4?

Yeah, I heard it was way out on the technical side.
For now, there's far too much stuff for me to learn in ODS that I don't think I even have the right to peer into the pages of Origami4 without going blind

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Maybe someday I will ... heheeh.

chesslo · Post by **chesslo** » April 20th, 2010, 4:43 am

Robert langs going to publish a new origami book which focuses on the technical side! Can't wait!!!

origamimasterjared · Post by **origamimasterjared** » April 20th, 2010, 5:57 am

Last time I talked to Robert he showed me a couple chapters. Let's just say there's some hardcore math.

Origami^4 is something else. It's the proceeds from 4OSME (4th International meeting of Origami, Science, Mathematics, and Education)

Robert has his own book that he's working on.

phoenyx · Post by **phoenyx** » April 27th, 2010, 4:47 pm

i cant find ODS where i am...

any one know a link where i can buy it?

Origamist388 · Post by **Origamist388** » April 27th, 2010, 5:44 pm

I know a dutch site:http://www.bol.com
They sell it for about €48,is that a good price?

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