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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Introduction: The New Dimensions of Origami
  • Origami Symbols
  • Chapter 1: Bent Folds and Curved Surfaces
    • Before the Big Bang(Thoki Yenn)-
            A Picture Story
            Rule 1: Using Tools
            Folding Instructions
            Variations
    • Pandanus Star
            Folding Instructions
            Rules 2 and 3: Materials and Techniques
    • Greek Soccer Ball
            Folding Instructions
            The Soccer Ball: A Dodecahedron
            The Regular Polyhedrons
    • Froebel Star
    • Knot Techniques
            Sphere 94(Heinz Strobl)
  • Chapter 2: Imagiro and Origami: The New World
    • Broken and Incomplete Folds(Paul Jackson)
            Flying Dove(Syouichi Yageta)
    • Cutting
            Folding = Cutting?
            Masterpiece with Cuts
            Cutting as a stage of Development
            Three Dragonflies and Their Evolution
    • Breaking Symmetry
            Cat Family
            Mouse Family
    • Experimenting with Shape
            Which Shape Do You See?
            Shape Association
            Painting and Gluing
            Playing with Basic Forms
    • Using Transparency
            Cat's Face(Francesco Miglionico)
            Small Box ((Tato)Mitsue Fushimi)
            Snowflake(Kunio Suzuki)
            The Beauty of Hidden Patterns(Prof. Kunio Suzuki)
    • The Tamatebako: A Gift Box and Its Story
            Urashima-Taro and the Tamatebako
            The Origami Tamatebako
            Form and Function
            Folding Instructions
    • The Poetry of Fold Lines of a Great Imagiro(Paulo Taborda Barreto)
  • Chapter 3: Pinwheels and Modular Origami
    • The Cube: The Fundamental Polyhedron
    • Tamatebako and Pinwheel- Cube Modules
    • The Pinwheel and Its Best Friends-
            Pinwheel
            Pajarita (Paper Bird)
            Variations on the Pinwheel
    • Froebel's Basic Forms as Cube Modules
    • The Wheel of Ideas Spins Further
    • New Pinwheel Snowflakes
    • Type I and II Pinwheel- Cube Modules
    • Type III Super Pinwheel- Cube Modules
            Panorama Box
            Pajarita Cube
            Crane Cubes
  • INDEX

Title: Extreme Origami
Author: Kunihiko Kasahara
Format/Publication Date: TPB:2002
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., NY
Page Count: 72
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 10 1/2" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: 0806988533

SUMMARY- The sinuous blue pleated form on the cover is called "Before the Big Bang", by Thoki Yenn. Kunihiko Kasahara must have caused a huge stir in the Origami community with this book, at least among the traditionalists. She breaks all the rules, and shows you why this is pretty cool. She introduces different techniques and different methods of achieving decorative models that are nontheless origami! I keep reading introductions to books where authors argue one position or another - all passionately but without namecalling and poking accusing fingers at others. I can imagine it gets more heated at times, but at least in print, people have agreed to disagree so long as their side is heard. I think that is awesome. I continue to read the debate with interest. Mr. Kasahara makes very persuasive arguements here, with clever examples to illustrate his points from his imagiro friends all over the world.