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TreeMaker: Origami Design Software

155 points by poppingtonic 10y ago

eagletusk 10y ago
Robert Lang's tome Origami Design Secrets was my first non school related introduction into mathematics. I remember looking in awe at the equations in the back of the book, then I started taking math courses ... For awhile there I was almost able to follow what he was talking about, now 8 years out of uni, I can once again look in the back of that book in awe.
- sohkamyung 10y ago
  I also have that book by Lang. But I've yet to tackle it. I hope to do so while my fingers and eyesight are still good enough to fold origami figures.
kqr2 10y ago
Although it's not origami, Pepakura Designer is another popular piece of software for creating 3D paper models. http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/ http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/
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poppingtonic 10y ago
I love this quote from the book "Origami Design Secrets": If you are a beginning designer, you should realize that no design is sacred. To learn to design, you must disregard reverence for another’s model, and be willing to pull it apart, fold it differently, change it and see the effects of your changes. Small ideas lead to big ideas; the concepts of design build upon one another.
sokz 10y ago
Unrelated to the content. When I tried to access the page, it showed me a message that my IP is banned.
- ibnudaruaji 10y ago
  http://archive.is/fB1oV http://archive.is/fB1oV if you still want to read it.
royletron 10y ago
Great just what I needed... another hobby! What a completely interesting read
agumonkey 10y ago
I think that's what Erik Demaine mentioned in his folding class. Link: http://erikdemaine.org/folding/ http://erikdemaine.org/folding/ ; http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.849/fall10/lectures/ http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.849/fall10/lectures/
ajb 10y ago
Really interesting. The Linux port is not maintained, unfortunately (last worked on ubuntu 10.04, apparently - someone made a docker environment here: https://github.com/AndrewKvalheim/treemaker https://github.com/AndrewKvalheim/treemaker but the base image is so old it is not on docker hub any more.
perseusprime11 10y ago
Without getting into the mathematics, can somebody point me to a decent website that can teach me origami from basics? When I google, I get sent to a bunch of sites that are often not well designed to teach.
- dublinben 10y ago
  You would probably be best served with a nice introductory book. It would teach you the fundamental folds, and also how to follow printed origami instructions. If you get stuck on any particular exercise, there are certainly video tutorials on YouTube that may also help.
- jp555 10y ago
  Youtube. I learned first by borrowing books from my local library and then from Robert J. Lang books I bought. But that was before the Internet. Nowadays YouTube is an excellent resource for learning some foundational folding principles, some base folds, and getting past tricky "folding bottlenecks" that were always a huge frustration for me when I was learning from books. It's just really hard to clearly convey some 3D folding steps with only 2D diagrams. For example some of Robert J. Lang's phenomenal insect models (https://www.amazon.ca/Origami-Insects-Robert-J-Lang/dp/0486286029 https://www.amazon.ca/Origami-Insects-Robert-J-Lang/dp/04862...) are hundreds of steps, and it's super frustrating to get stuck at say step 130 with only 45 left to go. Anyway, I prop up an iPad up with Youtube and work through models with my 6 year old son, and he's learning way way faster than I did when I was his age.

155 points by poppingtonic 10y ago

Robert Lang's tome Origami Design Secrets was my first non school related introduction into mathematics. I remember looking in awe at the equations in the back of the book, then I started taking math courses ... For awhile there I was almost able to follow what he was talking about, now 8 years out of uni, I can once again look in the back of that book in awe.

sohkamyung 10y ago
I also have that book by Lang. But I've yet to tackle it. I hope to do so while my fingers and eyesight are still good enough to fold origami figures.

kqr2 10y ago

Although it's not origami, Pepakura Designer is another popular piece of software for creating 3D paper models. http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/ http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/

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poppingtonic 10y ago

I love this quote from the book "Origami Design Secrets": If you are a beginning designer, you should realize that no design is sacred. To learn to design, you must disregard reverence for another’s model, and be willing to pull it apart, fold it differently, change it and see the effects of your changes. Small ideas lead to big ideas; the concepts of design build upon one another.

sokz 10y ago

Unrelated to the content. When I tried to access the page, it showed me a message that my IP is banned.

ibnudaruaji 10y ago
http://archive.is/fB1oV http://archive.is/fB1oV if you still want to read it.

royletron 10y ago

Great just what I needed... another hobby! What a completely interesting read

agumonkey 10y ago

I think that's what Erik Demaine mentioned in his folding class. Link: http://erikdemaine.org/folding/ http://erikdemaine.org/folding/ ; http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.849/fall10/lectures/ http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.849/fall10/lectures/

ajb 10y ago

Really interesting. The Linux port is not maintained, unfortunately (last worked on ubuntu 10.04, apparently - someone made a docker environment here: https://github.com/AndrewKvalheim/treemaker https://github.com/AndrewKvalheim/treemaker but the base image is so old it is not on docker hub any more.

perseusprime11 10y ago

Without getting into the mathematics, can somebody point me to a decent website that can teach me origami from basics? When I google, I get sent to a bunch of sites that are often not well designed to teach.

dublinben 10y ago
You would probably be best served with a nice introductory book. It would teach you the fundamental folds, and also how to follow printed origami instructions. If you get stuck on any particular exercise, there are certainly video tutorials on YouTube that may also help.
jp555 10y ago
Youtube. I learned first by borrowing books from my local library and then from Robert J. Lang books I bought. But that was before the Internet. Nowadays YouTube is an excellent resource for learning some foundational folding principles, some base folds, and getting past tricky "folding bottlenecks" that were always a huge frustration for me when I was learning from books. It's just really hard to clearly convey some 3D folding steps with only 2D diagrams. For example some of Robert J. Lang's phenomenal insect models (https://www.amazon.ca/Origami-Insects-Robert-J-Lang/dp/0486286029 https://www.amazon.ca/Origami-Insects-Robert-J-Lang/dp/04862...) are hundreds of steps, and it's super frustrating to get stuck at say step 130 with only 45 left to go. Anyway, I prop up an iPad up with Youtube and work through models with my 6 year old son, and he's learning way way faster than I did when I was his age.