What is origami? Its types and features
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It is not at all necessary to own any art, to possess virtuosic hands or by all the truths and crooks trying to elicit the secret of packing gifts. Everything is much simpler. The ancestor of everything - origami.
What is origami?
Origami - if you speak in plain language, it's nothing more than art, which consists in folding paper sheets, to the creation of various figures and shapes.
For sure, each of us in the elementary school on labor lessons offered to make a frog, a boat or an airplane from a sheet of paper. And it was so exciting, because as a result of the usual leaf really born animals, ships, airplanes. And most importantly - they could fly. Remembering an easy combination of folding paper is easy, but how much fun it can get! So we instilled a small foundation of origami. But, of course, it did not end there and did not begin. How many amazing crafts can be made from different types of origami! Folding sheets or special modules can get an infinite number of animals, geometric shapes, ships and planes. You can create a whole fleet and enjoy it.
This ancient art was invented in the same place, where the paper - in China. As usual in such cases, at first the art of origami could be owned only by representatives of the upper classes - the clergy and the aristocracy. Pieces of paper were even used in religious rituals. In the upper circles it was considered ignorance if a person did not know the art of folding pieces of paper.
Then, of course, origami, along with the paper, began to penetrate the masses. Already everyone could afford to experiment with a piece of paper at leisure, and, in the end, get some thing. Figures from origami were donated, put on shelves, like wards, decorated the house and pleasing the eye. It is worth noting that China, as a fairly developed country, has very powerfully used this art - paper adornments were almost everywhere, schemes for folding and modeling became more and more, the art of the masters became more and more complicated. Soon, not just figures from a pair of sheets of paper began to be modeled, but from a variety of modules. It was necessary to make about a few dozen small modules, in order to finally collect them and get a figure. This is still a good food for the mind. Especially for those who are accustomed to fold and collect anything without instructions.
There are several types of origami:
- The classic view of is the folding of figures from one sheet of paper without using scissors and glue, naturally.
- Modular origami, as already mentioned above, is formed into a single unit of several dozen modules. In this case, they can fold, and can be sewn with thread or glued with glue.
- There is also a so-called simple origami. It is a kind of origami, in which the simplest elements can be used.
- There is also a wet folding that allows the possibility of using wetted paper to create smooth lines.
Using the origami technique, you can get a great variety of crafts. But the greatest interest is origami, which is performed by scanning or modular origami, with which you can create a variety of voluminous geometric shapes. This is the most interesting kind for people with a mathematical mindset, since it allows you to consider such geometric figures as the icosahedron, octahedron and others, which are based on regular polygons, in reality. Who else but a man owning origami can create an icosahedron from paper and admire its faces? Here, by the way, an interesting example of origami:
So, as we see, the art of origami represents a perfect variety of both technology and usage techniques that anyone can find to their liking - anyone can. In order to master this technique, you do not need specialized training - even if your arsenal will consist only of a few knowledge, and you can not do any great crafts, it's okay. After all, the main thing is to enjoy the process itself, and in what way it is not so important.