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Animated Origami Brings New Life to the Traditional Art Form
By Brenlee Place Published: 01/06/2010
Origami has not changed much in the last several hundred years. In fact, many hundreds of years had to pass before a corner was turned in origami. The type of diagram illustrated in "How to Fold One Thousand Cranes," published in 1797, remained the standard until the 1930s, when the father of modern origami, Akira Yoshizawa developed a system of dotted lines and arrows that described without using words, how and where the craft paper should be folded, and from one step to the next. The next leap in origami, namely animated origami, came about with the advent of the Internet.
Akira Yoshizawa's new style of diagramming was a great leap forward in that it totally passed over written communication, which made it possible for origami models to be shared all over the globe. Yoshizawa's notations have grown to be so widespread that they have been integrated into the great majority of origami diagrams and similar publications since that time.
When dealing with origami diagrams, you generally only need to record the principal folds in the development of each model. Even if you have very little experience, the steps can normally be followed without much difficulty. However, because only principal folds are recorded, beginners may sometimes struggle to picture how the paper should be folded between principal folds on the diagram. If a beginner gets stumped, there's little else to do but keep trying or seek out somebody else to help. But with the arrival of the Internet, help is close by most of the time due to the rising number of websites that offer animated visual instructions to fill in the missing pieces.
Since the early days of the Internet, animation software has progressed by leaps and bounds. Animated GIF's were very popular in the 1990s and many are used in origami animation today. Animated origami uses the animated GIF format, usually running in stages, meaning, on completion of the first step, a link is provided to follow the animation for the second step, and so on. When small file sizes were of absolute importance, this was the best way to work because the file size of each animated step could be kept to a minimum for easy viewing and downloading.
A computer program known as Splash was created in the 1990s that could animate graphics and output them in extremely small file sizes. The software program subsequently evolved into the now well known Flash, and nowadays, the Flash player and its associated animations have become completely imbedded throughout the Web. With Flash's widespread presence and capacity to create smooth animations, interactivity and small file sizes, it has supplied a natural platform for the creation and animation of origami diagrams.
Animated origami doesn't just cover two dimensional, still objects, as it also covers moving objects. It can move in some very clever ways. Action origami includes origami that needs inflation to be complete through kinetic energy as well as origami that flies. The extra energy that an object possesses due to motion is kinetic energy and is defined as the mechanical work needed to accelerate a body of any given mass from at rest to its current velocity. Who would ever have guessed that simple origami would become so scientific?