Origami Animals [Hardcover]

Robert J. Lang (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 13, 1992

A detailed step-by-step guide to the ancient art of paper folding shows how to create the classic origami animals, as well as entire bird mobiles and holiday ornaments.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Crescent; First edition. edition (December 13, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 051707320X
• ISBN-13: 978-0517073209
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #809,290 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Robert J. Lang has been an avid student of origami for some forty years and is now recognized as one of the world's leading masters of the art. He is one of the pioneers of the cross-disciplinary marriage of origami with mathematics and organized the 2006 Fourth International Meeting on Origami in Science, Mathematics, and Education at Caltech. He has consulted on applications of origami to medical devices, air-bag design, and space telescopes, is the author or co-author of nine books and numerous articles on origami and lectures on the connections between origami, mathematics, science, and technology. Many examples of his work may be found on his website, http://www.langorigami.com .

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4.0 out of 5 stars An quite simple Lang, February 5, 2001

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I first know the world of modern origami because of Mr.Lang's book. His Step by Step origami is my first Lang book, and I am totally shocked. After all there are many wonderful book of Lang, each one climb unto a more higher stage. So I always doubt and wonder if Lang has his adolescent age in origami! And now this book is Lang's related simple work. According the publishing date (1992), This is STILL NOT an adolescent work, but it indeed contains easier models to fold. Some models are quite abstract, not as familiar Lang's style. It seems that Lang tried to make this book as easy as possible.

In fact this is a quite good origami textbook for true beginners and kids. It contains introduction of paper and notations then about 20 models, from 12 steps super easy and abstract grasshopper to complex(for some, intermediate) lion and gazelle.(Interesting enough, the gazelle use the base very like Montroll's dog's base). Although most models are simple, still there are some models both are abstract and beautiful, like ibex, gazelle and skate.