Samurai created from a single sheet of paper, folded for 50 hours

[boingboing]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2021/01/24/samurai-created-from-a-single-sheet-of-paper-folded-for-50-hours.html

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[longtimelurker]

I can make an airplane that will go ~40 feet. Stick a notch on the front and get a rubber band and we’re talking twice that. This however, just takes it to the next level.

Somewhat unrelated, but always good for a Sunday afternoon: https://youtu.be/8hUOKjy-9-o

EDIT wrong link

[hecep]

Me, before:
Me, after:

[SqualusAcanthias]

This is very impressive but I have to wonder where the line is between „wet shaping“ and Papier mâché.

[Blamp]

I think he got the general shape without stretching or curving the paper - messing with the material in a way that wouldn’t really be fair for origami. The water was just added as a last step to stop it from deforming later.

Edit: kind of a shame if that was necessary. Crisper folds would make this look more impressive.

[SqualusAcanthias]

I have wondered the same thing about highly complex origami works before. Often, folds are hard to make out, especially if it is a grainy textured paper. I think at this grade of complexity, crisper folds become impossible at some point without damaging other parts of the work.

[anothernewbbaccount]

I have no idea how one even conceives of how to get to an end shape like that from a flat sheet. It’s alien technology, I tell you.

[Papasan]

Paper cuts, paper cuts by the thousands.

[TheirFeldspars]

There’s more at his IG feed.
I’m having trouble putting a link to that here. It’s at jkonkkola_origami

[sebastian]

The samurai was feared throughout the land until he met his match.

[Anyhoo]

Yeah, I heard he died from his ninjaries.

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