Origami Zoo: An Amazing Collection of Folded Paper Animals
by Robert J. Lang
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Presents step-by-step instructions for thirty-seven animal projects folded from square or rectangular pieces of paper, including designs for a dolphin, gorilla, frog, roadrunner, and panda.Tags
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This is one of my favorite origami books. Some of the simpler models are really well-thought out, and I think this book shows why Lang is such a great origami designer. That golden eagle that you can see on the upper right hand corner of the cover is a really neat model as well. I also once made a really big version of his rabbit model, which is very three-dimensional, that came out really well (I had to stuff it with tape in order for it to retain its three-dimensionality). I enjoy how he really uses the third dimension in these constructions; very few of them are flat, and many of them look quite realistic. Paper choice is important when constructing these models: you want to choose paper of an appropriate size, but also consider the show more thickness of the paper when planning out how to make these models. I highly recommend this book to people who are interested in making three-dimensional animals out of paper. show less
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Robert J. Lang has been an avid student of origami for over fifty years and is now recognized as one of the world's leading masters of the art. He is noted for designs of great detail and realism, and his repertoire includes some of the most complex origami designs ever created. His work combines aspects of the Western school of mathematical show more origami design with the Eastern emphasis upon line and form to yield designs that are at once distinctive, elegant, and challenging to fold, They have been shown in exhibitions in New York (Museum of Modern Art), Paris (Carrousel du Louvre), Salem (Peabody Essex Museum), San Diego (Mingei Museum of World Folk Art), and Kaga, Japan (Nippon Museum of Origami), among others. He is one of the pioneers of computational origami techniques, and has published widely on the theory and mathematics of folding. Dr. Lang was born in Ohio and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. Along the way to his current career as a fulltime origami artist and consultant, he worked as a physicist, engineer, and RD manager, during which time he authored or co-authored over 80 technical publications and 50 patents on semiconductor lasers, optics, and integrated optoelectronics. He was elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics from 2007-2010. After switching his primary focus to origami, he authored or co-authored numerous technical articles on the mathematics of folding and on design techniques for folding in technological applications. In 2009, he received Caltech's Distinguished Alumni Award for his origami work, and in 2013 was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Dr. Lang resides in Alamo, California. show less
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