blog/2022-08-07-growing-up-origamist

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Growing Up as an Origamist - Origami by Michał Kosmulski

Me, precreasing Ridges Corrugation (32×32) in early 2018 I’ve been doing lots of origami lately, but very little folding. Between cataloging and reverse-engineering Shuzo Fujimoto’s designs, diagramming my own models, preparing and giving workshops, writing blog posts, and managing the ever-increasing pile of prototypes, I find it hard to find time for actually folding my designs much. Fujimoto’s recent death anniversary reminded me that the year he died, 2015, was also the year I got into tessellations and when my origami design skills really took off. So, I’ve been seriously engaged in origami for the last seven years (and on and off for thirty), and notice how much the notion of “doin

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It used to be more interesting. Coming up with models is much more interesting than then spending dozens of hours creating diagrams. There was also a problem that I can come up with very complex models on the first try. But it is better to have 10 models with schemes than 100 that no one will repeat. It's a pity that my models are not popular. There are several of my models that I would like to see performed by other people. I hope someday I will have time to fold not only my models.

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Oh, this all sounds familiar! "The prototype pile" and the backlog of undocumented work, the I'd-rather-be-folding vs. so many other things that wait to be done. A friend got me started on making things with intent to sell - an art/engineering collaboration - and I've had to get my head around small-scale mass production of a few of my original models. That's not the worst sort of work, but it does get to be work, and I have to take time off to just talk things over with the paper. That usually results in one or more new models that immediately start eating time. sigh