My Picks For Cool Tweets About Origami

When I was a little kid an activity that always kept me busy was folding paper and creating things. Paper airplanes were my specialty.  Weren’t they every kid’s specialty?  🙂  I also liked to fold the paper as small as I could, cut it in different spots and then see what kind of snowflake that created when the paper was unfolded.  Other than airplanes and snowflakes, there wasn’t much else a person could make from folding paper.  Right?

That’s what I thought until I learned the Japanese had an art called origami.  Oh my!  I can’t believe what you can do with folded paper!  But even though the article published in The Habitat presents some convincing arguments … origami relieves stress, improves fine motor skills, it’s fun! … I’m still convinced that I should make it a hobby unless it’s a hobby I can turn into an income stream.

Two fun facts that I learned preparing this post.

• Fact 1:  The paper airplanes I used to make?  That’s origami.
• Fact 2:  The snowflakes I used to make?  That’s kirigami, which is a variation of origami.

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https://twitter.com/Tinygami/status/1231175423318544384

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Make this ancient art your newest hobby: #origami https://t.co/xeA6r4Nc9f pic.twitter.com/Cw3CUO0Osf

— The Habitat (@TheHabitatcom) February 25, 2020

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https://twitter.com/Jesica_Wilson16/status/1232823272334479360

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https://twitter.com/CraftitEasy1/status/1230833337943646208

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Have you seen #Paloma, lighted metal #origami #birds in the trees at @DiscoveryGreen? Turn up the volume to hear the video, and be sure to see it in person before it flies away this #Monday, February 24th! #discoverygreen #acrossthestreet #paloma #DowntownHouston #discoverygreen pic.twitter.com/cWBfB4IOHq

— Hilton Americas-Houston (@HiltonHouston) February 21, 2020

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Let hope and dreams be the fuel in your journey to the stars 💫#ATaleOfPaper #indiedev #gamedev #UE4 #PS4 #indiegame #Origami #indiegaming #conceptart pic.twitter.com/w95o7dYSCp

— Open House Games (@OpenHouseGames) February 26, 2020

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this is the origami flower that yixing made with the elderly at the nursing home today 🌸 pic.twitter.com/L2EA5fbeeg

— for yixing (@eternallyixing) December 24, 2018

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Artist and designer Won Park creates incredible origami pieces using only one dollar bills pic.twitter.com/8pl8gmx1OU

— J Evans (@Distinctboxes) December 26, 2018

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One animated character that actually was surprisingly challenging to animate believe it or not was the Magic Carpet from Aladdin. Despite his simple shape, animator Randy Cartwright compared animating him to acting by origami. pic.twitter.com/Fiv1omBRCf

— Animated Antic (@Animated_Antic) December 22, 2018

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Our first game is available on RedBricks!https://t.co/J0ix9Ju8Bf

Fold Stories is a metroidvania game in an origami world with a rich, deeply captivating, original story.#indiegames #metroidvania #origami pic.twitter.com/h6DZw7ZXpp

— OtterWays (@OtterWays) December 22, 2018

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Origami House by TSC Architects | https://t.co/PGTydsoBl3
Please RT #architecture #interiordesign pic.twitter.com/QC7BeROxQ5

— HomeAdore (@HomeAdore) December 11, 2018

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Annual Report 3: The most highly cited paper our lab published in 2018 is this freely available review (citations: 15 in Scopus, 19 in Google Scholar, top 1% of Web of Science):
From flat sheets to curved geometries: origami and kirigami approacheshttps://t.co/RlaM7HtazT pic.twitter.com/hWyOMWV9ez

— Amir A Zadpoor (@amir_zadpoor) December 25, 2018

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