Copyright Opencourseware and Lectures
Archived Courses and Lectures Available Online at No Cost
Learn about Fair Use, Performance, Display, Distribution, Derivative Works, etc. that apply to Origami
Archived Course
https://www.edx.org/course/intellectual-property-law-policy-part-2-pennx-iplaw1x#!
Archived Courses and Lectures Available Online at No Cost
Learn about Fair Use, Performance, Display, Distribution, Derivative Works, etc. that apply to Origami
Archived Course
https://www.edx.org/course/intellectual-property-law-policy-part-2-pennx-iplaw1x#!
Archived Course
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-912-introduction-to-copyright-law-january-iap-2006/
Archived Course
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-628j-patents-copyrights-and-the-law-of-intellectual-property-spring-2013/
Graphic Artists Guild Offerings
https://graphicartistsguild.org
https://graphicartistsguild.org
Origami Cube - 1 Square Self-Closing Gift Box and Topper
Origami version of the "Rapid Packing Container" (video below)
models and diagrams by KDS
Cecil The Lion
Rethinking The Power Of Anger
by K. Dianne Stephens, LPCC, LMSW
Recently, the outrage so many felt about Cecil the lion’s brutal murder caused an outpouring of calls for action against mankind's savage ways.
The media was flooded with tweets, a surge of articles were written, petitions were signed, and government leaders around the world were called to accountability.
Already we have seen powerful results!
Costa Rica announced Monday that a ban on shooting animals for sport is now in effect.
Delta Airlines has announced it will no longer ship lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros, and buffalo trophies. Several foreign airlines have announced similar bans.
Ty Corporation is creating a “Cecil The Lion” Beanie Baby as a fund raiser, pledging all profits from sales to its retailers to WildCRU, the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit of Oxford University.
Origami artists Sebastian Lament and Nick Robinson have completed models in Cecil’s honor.
https://www.facebook.com/947714948596409/photos/pb.947714948596409.-2207520000.1438801552./1017329438301626/?type=3
http://www.nickrobinson.ino/origami/wp_ori/killing-wild-animals/
THIS is what the power of anger can do!!
Every day well meaning folks send good wishes for happiness to one another. Recently, seeing the enormous potential for good in anger, I started to wonder...why we are not sending each other wishes for great success in using the most powerful energy we have. Wishing others wisdom in directing anger!
Anger can be likened to the legendary tree of knowledge....
it is the fire...the energy that can motivate us to accomplish great things for society. We can use its vitality to take dynamic action to right the wrongs. It can propel us to learn, grow, teach, and advocate for potent change in our world.
How have we missed this...why have we been taught to deny this natural organic energy - the source for making the greatest of strides. With laser precision, anger can bring rapid change – it can move mountains – renew the planet - bring peace - and...save lions!.
Maybe it is time we all rethink the traditional ideas on anger. Maybe it is time we wish each person wisdom in employing their most valuable resource...Anger.
Already we have seen powerful results!
Costa Rica announced Monday that a ban on shooting animals for sport is now in effect.
Delta Airlines has announced it will no longer ship lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros, and buffalo trophies. Several foreign airlines have announced similar bans.
Ty Corporation is creating a “Cecil The Lion” Beanie Baby as a fund raiser, pledging all profits from sales to its retailers to WildCRU, the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit of Oxford University.
Origami artists Sebastian Lament and Nick Robinson have completed models in Cecil’s honor.
https://www.facebook.com/947714948596409/photos/pb.947714948596409.-2207520000.1438801552./1017329438301626/?type=3
http://www.nickrobinson.ino/origami/wp_ori/killing-wild-animals/
THIS is what the power of anger can do!!
Every day well meaning folks send good wishes for happiness to one another. Recently, seeing the enormous potential for good in anger, I started to wonder...why we are not sending each other wishes for great success in using the most powerful energy we have. Wishing others wisdom in directing anger!
Anger can be likened to the legendary tree of knowledge....
it is the fire...the energy that can motivate us to accomplish great things for society. We can use its vitality to take dynamic action to right the wrongs. It can propel us to learn, grow, teach, and advocate for potent change in our world.
How have we missed this...why have we been taught to deny this natural organic energy - the source for making the greatest of strides. With laser precision, anger can bring rapid change – it can move mountains – renew the planet - bring peace - and...save lions!.
Maybe it is time we all rethink the traditional ideas on anger. Maybe it is time we wish each person wisdom in employing their most valuable resource...Anger.
Origami and Smocking
Broadening the Art of Origami Through Exploring The Art of Smocking
Published May 2013 by KDS
Artists have well captured the high fashion of the Middle Ages (in their paintings), incorporating the art form of Italian Smocking, which produces an Origami feel (in fabric). This sophisticated technique of Smocking (a form Embroidery dating from the Middle Ages/England bringing both form and function) - where the the color and weight of the fabric can be influenced, with the folds of the fabric becoming the focus, (rather than the embroidered stitches) - may offer wonderful ideas to the Origami art form.
American and Counterchange Smocking may also bring insights to Origami as well.
Saadya Sternberg, Origami Artist & Curator, kindly shared this picture that gives a nice example of Smocking from the Middle Ages (fig. 1).
Patterns for the art of Smocking can be likened to Origami crease patterns (fig. 2), the results likened to tessellations (fig. 3).
Origami work inspired from classic Smocking patterns
Mathematician and Origami artist Jeannine Mosely writes “I was inspired by classic Smocking patterns to create this paper tessellation. In Smocking, tiny stitches on the back side of the fabric create gathers that cause the cloth on the front side to form orderly pillows. Recreating these pillows in paper presents a special challenge because the surfaces must be developable. I derived equations to determine the shape and position of the curved and straight creases required for this design. The resulting integral lacks a closed form solution and was solved numerically using Mathematica. I printed the principal domain onto card stock, cut it out and used it to trace multiple repetitions of the design onto a larger sheet of paper. These were "scored" with an embossing tool and then folded.”
Jeannie Mosley continues “I was inspired by classic Smocking patterns to create this paper tessellation. In Smocking, tiny stitches on the back side of the fabric create gathers that cause the cloth on the front side to form orderly pillows. Recreating these pillows in paper presents a special challenge because the surfaces must be developable. I derived equations to determine the shape and position of the curved and straight creases required for this design. The resulting integral lacks a closed form solution and was solved numerically using Mathematica. I printed the principal domain onto card stock, cut it out and used it to trace multiple repetitions of the design onto a larger sheet of paper. These were "scored" with an embossing tool and then folded (fig. 4).
Exploring the art form and function of Smocking can bring interesting new opportunities to the world of Origami.
Origami Teaching Tips
Pubished August, 2013 - by KDS
Many may be familiar with the importance of meeting Learning and Productivity styles, so I simply share that my experience has shown me that working with the learning styles of students is the key to success in any endeavor...Origami included! For years I presented on the topic, and actively used the concepts in my teaching in traditional and special education classrooms, with math, music and Origami. In my second career as a professional counselor, I found the ideas are equally important in helping others to help themselves. Rita and Ken Dunn pioneered the field of Learning and Productivity Styles for us. I studied under their tutelage and express they are wonderfully brilliant scholars and presented me with an excellent experience!! Should you not have the basic overview quickly available, a copy is pictured below. Keeping in mind that students can be greatly impacted by the “elements” – to the point of not being able to learn and produce, I hope this is a helpful refreshment for all of us. One specific thing I have noticed...whether is it math, music or Origami...many (not all) students arrive being lost in the numbers...the music notation...or the Origami folds...all of which are merely a means to the end. A simple, global approach can move the student away from the granular detail, that in the long run, the student himself will refine. Silent folding, following along with no diagram, offers one way to enjoy and begin with Origami from a more global/right brained approach, adding in the language, detail and logic later.
Here, I also like speak to working with a concept I call “Allowing The Paper”.
In sharing my story I hope to point to a global/right brained aspect of Origami.
On the final leg of my holiday, flying back from New York to my home in the Chihuahua desert of New Mexico, I folded a dozen or so “Inspired - An Origami Angel” angels. Using slippery, translucent waxed paper, it was certainly a time of flow with the art form. As I put away the angels, and gradually returned to the world around me, the woman sitting next to me for the duration of the journey asked what it was that I was doing. I shared with her that it was Origami. Surprised, she said, ” I have seen people folding before, but it was nothing like what you were doing”. I gave the “pat” response of what Origami is all about, but she continued to remark how “different” what I was doing seemed; that there was an energy that mesmerized her. With her honest sharing and inquiry, I explained. What I shared with her is the idea of “allowing the paper”. In my time with Origami, I have come to learn...it is about the paper, how it wants to move...not about how I want the paper to move. For me, the art form is a dance, a partnership...me and the paper. As the paper warms, and tunes into moving into different forms, it is often “not ready” to make the dramatic changes to its structure. The paper, just as we, is not always ready to do what another may desire. And so, try as we will, whether it be with another being, or with the paper, the result will be less than exquisite. Exchanging energy, “asking” or leading the paper to move gradually into a new form is what this concept of “allowing the paper” is all about. Just as a musician who immerses himself with the music produces sound that can move us to elation or to the depths of sorrow, so too does such engagement with the paper influence the completed Origami art piece. The flow and movement of energy into the paper assists the model to become to its' fullest extent, the whimsical, dramatic, or thought provoking art piece.
Pubished August, 2013 - by KDS
Many may be familiar with the importance of meeting Learning and Productivity styles, so I simply share that my experience has shown me that working with the learning styles of students is the key to success in any endeavor...Origami included! For years I presented on the topic, and actively used the concepts in my teaching in traditional and special education classrooms, with math, music and Origami. In my second career as a professional counselor, I found the ideas are equally important in helping others to help themselves. Rita and Ken Dunn pioneered the field of Learning and Productivity Styles for us. I studied under their tutelage and express they are wonderfully brilliant scholars and presented me with an excellent experience!! Should you not have the basic overview quickly available, a copy is pictured below. Keeping in mind that students can be greatly impacted by the “elements” – to the point of not being able to learn and produce, I hope this is a helpful refreshment for all of us. One specific thing I have noticed...whether is it math, music or Origami...many (not all) students arrive being lost in the numbers...the music notation...or the Origami folds...all of which are merely a means to the end. A simple, global approach can move the student away from the granular detail, that in the long run, the student himself will refine. Silent folding, following along with no diagram, offers one way to enjoy and begin with Origami from a more global/right brained approach, adding in the language, detail and logic later.
Here, I also like speak to working with a concept I call “Allowing The Paper”.
In sharing my story I hope to point to a global/right brained aspect of Origami.
On the final leg of my holiday, flying back from New York to my home in the Chihuahua desert of New Mexico, I folded a dozen or so “Inspired - An Origami Angel” angels. Using slippery, translucent waxed paper, it was certainly a time of flow with the art form. As I put away the angels, and gradually returned to the world around me, the woman sitting next to me for the duration of the journey asked what it was that I was doing. I shared with her that it was Origami. Surprised, she said, ” I have seen people folding before, but it was nothing like what you were doing”. I gave the “pat” response of what Origami is all about, but she continued to remark how “different” what I was doing seemed; that there was an energy that mesmerized her. With her honest sharing and inquiry, I explained. What I shared with her is the idea of “allowing the paper”. In my time with Origami, I have come to learn...it is about the paper, how it wants to move...not about how I want the paper to move. For me, the art form is a dance, a partnership...me and the paper. As the paper warms, and tunes into moving into different forms, it is often “not ready” to make the dramatic changes to its structure. The paper, just as we, is not always ready to do what another may desire. And so, try as we will, whether it be with another being, or with the paper, the result will be less than exquisite. Exchanging energy, “asking” or leading the paper to move gradually into a new form is what this concept of “allowing the paper” is all about. Just as a musician who immerses himself with the music produces sound that can move us to elation or to the depths of sorrow, so too does such engagement with the paper influence the completed Origami art piece. The flow and movement of energy into the paper assists the model to become to its' fullest extent, the whimsical, dramatic, or thought provoking art piece.
Ron Resch 1960-1966
Follow Ron Resch's discovery, development, practical application,
and his computer programming for tessellation and modular work.
Follow Ron Resch's discovery, development, practical application,
and his computer programming for tessellation and modular work.