taerkitty

I'm not sure how groups work with DA.  Does anyone know of any origami groups?

I've been folding a lot lately.  I have designs for a bunch of Star Wars model in addition to the Death Star, X-Wing, and TIE Fighter I already posted: Y-Wing, B-Wing, Landspeeder, Snowspeeder, and Imperial Shuttle.  I also have one for the Earth Alliance Omega Class Destroyer from Bab5, and one for the Colonial Viper from BSG, both of which I don't watch.  The B-Wing, Landspeeder, Viper, and Omega Destroyer have been posted.  Star Destroyer and Snowspeeder needs better pictures.

I'm still trying to create a Millennium Falcon...

I just finished uploading the Jet Fighter (taerkitty.deviantart.com/art/J…).  The first photos I took close-up, to force a sense of perspective.  Through the viewfinder LCD, it looked dynamic and vibrant.

Through the lens, it looked out-of-focus.  I was forced to photograph from a distance.  I could still fill the field with the model, but it didn't have the forced perspective.

Maybe the camera has some sort of manual focus, but with the low resolution of the LCD, how can I tell when it's in true?  The initial shot looked in focus on the LCD.

Maybe the trick is to use a lower resolution?  I wanted to show the detail with the Jet Fighter, so it's a 2MP photo.  Maybe that's overkill.  I wonder if my 1.3MP phone cam would do a better job?

Live and learn.

Okay, I think I figured out how to do a halfway decent orthogonal view.  In my case, the orthogonal view is required not just to show flats, but layers, in a way.  I'm trying to show a tube that's been pinched so the cross-section has six flanges.

30 degrees seems about right to start with, but again, I need to show depth (or height, choose your axii.)

The flat object is a rectangle (with some fold lines on it.)  

Copy it and split it lengthwise.  Or, more accurately, copy it twice.  One copy has the right side erased.  The other copy has the left.

Those are the three masters: whole, left and right halves.

Copy the whole master, set the height to 50% (too bad OpenOffice Draw doesn't allow for scaling by percentage.)  Slant it by -30 degrees of it's to go forward-right to back-left like ''.

Copy the left half, set the height to 50% and the width to 90%.  Slant it by -20 degrees, then rotate it by 10 degrees.

Copy the right half, same ratio: 50^ height : 90% width.  Slant it by -40, then rotate it -10 degrees.

It only took me three hours to do a simple drawing.  (2 x whole + 4 x right half + 4 x left half).   I have no idea how bad the next steps will be.

Oh, and rotate the whole assembly by another 30 degrees so it doesn't look so stiff.

I'm using OpenOffice's Draw to make a TIE Fighter instruction sheet.  It's going slow.  I've gotten to the point where 'overhead' view won't work, and need to switch to 'orthogonal' view.

That will be new for me.  Then again, overhead view diagrams were new for me, but at least I've seen many of them in the past.

I haven't quite mastered the 'fold this way' and 'fold that way' fold line indicators.  Drawing 'swing the paper this way' arrows is also difficult -- it's hard getting the Bézier curve right.