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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Crossing the Divide
- Getting to Know the Square
- Materials and Tools
- Symbols and Procedures
- Four Easy Pieces
- Folding: A Compact History
- I Meet the Master
- A Zen Philosophy
- The Floating Square
- Learning from Nature
- X and X'
- A Music Lesson
- The Psychology of Invention
- The Case of the Purloined Pig
- Toward a Vocabulary of Form
- Additional Procedures
- MODELS:
- Angelfish
- Butterfly Fish
- Discus Fish
- Hummingbird
- Penguin
- Giraffe
- Kangaroo
- One-Dollar Yacht
- One-Dollar Bow Tie
- One-Dollar Crab
- Eight-Pointed Star
- Valentine
- Crab
- Centipede
- Octopus
- Squid
- Scorpion
- Rattlesnake
- Alligator
- Tiger
- Reindeer
- Elephant
- Knight on Horseback
- Butterfly
- Notes and Sources
- Origami Societies
- Picture Credits
- Index to Terms
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Title: Folding the Universe: Origami from Angelfish to Zen
Author: Peter Engel
Format/Publication Date: TPB:1989
Publisher: Vintage Press(Random House), NY
Language: English
Page Count: 324
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: 0394757513
SUMMARY- I freely admit Mr. Engel is somewhat over my head. I'm with him for most of a chapter, and then I lose the thread, backtrack a bit, struggle through another paragraph or two, decide this section wasn't written for me and move on to the next chapter. There are large parts of the book I found very engaging, like his quest for an original snake model. His solution makes a 40" snake out of a 10" piece of paper. Needless to say, Mr. Engel has clever to spare. I could do the simplest models, but by the intermediate models, I was stumped. I'll revisit this book in a few years when I have more experience reading the patterns. There's a lot to unpack in this book, and some really exquisite models to try. A more experienced or smarter folder will get farther than I did - and will want to. Just be aware that this book will challenge you.
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