Could someone produce a PDF of this? I'm not MS Word-enabled.
On Nov 26, 2005, at 3:36 PM, Ryan McGuire and Kerry Breitenbach wrote:
An MS Word doc with a folding diagram and the roughesst of
instructions is available at...
http://home.att.net/~ryanmcguire/OrigamiIcehouse/Creases.doc
I would be surprised if anyone could actually make a pyramid given
the instructions. Let me know if you have any specific questions.
I've taken some pictures but haven't really put them together in a
web page yet.
The three diagrams on the second page are correctly sized to make
one pyramid of each size. Just print page 2 onto five sheets each
of four different colors (six colors for Volcano) and you're ready
to go. Heck, you could get a Binary Homeworlds set with just three
sheets of each color. Or you can modify the file to color in at
least the four triangles that end up being the pyramids faces, as
shown on page 1, and then fold the whole thing insideout.
Re: "Pure" instructions.
From what I gather, origami purists would at least roll their eyes
at a
folding diagram. All measurements should either be available by
folding this corner to that corner, or from just estimating.
Re: Improvements
Someone asked in a private email what "improvements" I made of Bill
Adams's design. The biggest one is that by using my new
instructions you don't end up with a crease down the middle of each
pyramid face. There are also other unnecessary creases that I've
eliminated, but they were all on the inside of the folded-in flaps,
so the improvement is basically moot.
Happy folding.
Ryan
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Francis" <whooshtn@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Icehouse Discussion List'" <icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 5:15 AM
Subject: RE: [Icehouse] Origami Icehouse
I rarely ever post in the lists I belong to, but I am an avid origami
practitioner, if that is the way to say it. I would be very
interested in
the drawing, and honestly I'm not sure what you mean exactly by
"pure", but
I am interested in it anyway! I only just recently (dragoncon) got
interested in these pyramid games, and I'd love to try some of the
games
that require massive numbers of pyramids without having to
actually buy the
plastic ones just to try it. This would be a wonderful thing to
do. Please
do send the instructions, if not to the list, send them to me
directly
(whooshtn@xxxxxxxxx).
Thanks a lot!!
John
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Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 1:50 PM
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Subject: [Icehouse] Origami Icehouse
I've finally re-figured out Bill Adams's stackable origami
Icehouse pyramid
design. I've even made an improvement or two on it. I tried
contacting
Bill via email a couple times and I've never gotten any response.
Similar
requests on this have gone unanswered, so I assume he's not
contactable
and/or interested any more.
Those of you that want to see this design, would you rather get
"pure"
origami instructions or see a printable folding diagram? I
already have a
diagram drawn up in a Word doc file. In fact, three copies of the
diagram
sized to make a large, a medium and a small all fit on one 8.5 x
11" page.
You can fold it so that the printed lines all end up on the inside
of the
pyramid. Or you can modify the diagram by coloring in the four
triangles
that end up being the pyramid faces and then fold the whole thing
insideout
(i.e. swapping mountain and valley folds).
Let me know what's best for you all.
Ryan
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