The Rules?
I pride myself on being a bit of an origami purist, and as such I always try and adhere to a set of rules when I'm designing a new origami model:
- The square is the sacred shape - thou shalt not deviate from the perfection of side length equality and right angled eutopia.
- One shall be the number of the sheets, and the number of the sheets shall be one. Thou shalt not exceed this magic number, for the modular path leads to eternal damnation.
- The integrity of thy paper is to be preserved at all costs. Thou shalt not cut, tear or otherwise irrepairably damage thy paper.
- Thou shalt use all thy paper effeciently. The highest proportion of the square is to be employed for a good and useful purpose in the final model.
- Thou art to respect thy subject matter, and must aim to produce an accurate and well proportioned representation of it. While fine detail can be sacrificed for ease of folding, the inherent nature and key features which describe the subject are to be faithfully recreated.
Of course, in the real world, these rules are merely just guidelines, and we must be flexible enough to realise that perfection is not always attainable. However, some rules are more sacrosanct than others - while I've broken number 1 in the past, and can see the possibility of breaking number 2 at some point in the future, the thought of breaking rule number 3 makes me need to go and have a lie down...
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