Animated Origami Techniques On Flash Players

For thousands of years in both China and Japan, the art of origami was passed from generation to generation with little regard for recording the technique for each model with diagrams.

Occasionally, a book would be produced to document a model. Once such book was published in 1797 and was called "How to Fold One Thousand Cranes." In the 1930s, Akira Yoshizawa created a better system of diagramming.

Then, with the advent of the Internet, origami transcended into another dimension. Flash players allow animated origami to reach the masses like it never has before.

So enters animated origami. With traditional animation techniques, cartoons are drawn on layers of acetate sheets with each segment of movement is captured frame by frame onto film.

This process is also used when animating origami diagrams, although the artist will produce sequences of digital drawings with computer software rather than using sheets of acetate and a camera.

The software allows the animator to change the look, size and playback of the origami animation in a way that would have been impossible using traditional methods.

The Internet is continually changing the way people communicate, learn and share ideas. This is especially so with web-based animated origami models.

It helps join the ancient Japanese art form of origami with cutting edge technology and hopefully helps more people discover the joy of this wonderful art form of fascinating folds.

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