Friday, April 03, 2009
The Paper Cosmos Turns
This rotating paper pop-up gets my vote as the best pop-up design of the year! So simple, so elegant, yet so astonishing an effect! The mechanism moves as if it's operating from a far more complex system.
I took a freeze frame at the :12 mark as a commenter suggested in order to try to reverse engineer the mechanism.
I can imagine using this pattern along with color and imagery to create an incredible paper experience.
I'd love to know more about who Dosmit is, and/or who is behind this design to credit it properly, anyone?
Ah, seems the design was originally made by Ramin Razani, Here are more photos
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It could be so cool to mix papertoy/papercraft and pop-up effects! I'd love to see this kind of things :P
What amazing illusion with the right folds.
Excellent!
I originally saw a similar design on Latest Gadget Japan
http://www.seihin-world.com/s/2006/01/ (you have to scroll down to Jan. 25)
and followed the link to Akara Nishihara's site
http://www1.ttcn.ne.jp/~a-nishi/popup_spinner/z_popup_spinner.html
to grab the template.
The circular design is there, too, with "unknown designer" as the attribution.
Carol
Extreme Cards and Papercrafting
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Cool, it looks like the template for this one is in Jeff Rutzky's book, Kirigami.
http://www.origamitessellations.com/2007/02/26/ramin-razanis-livre-anemometre-wind-gauge/
Carol
Extreme Cards and Papercrafting
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/unknowninspiration/fig2.gif
^ That is the template for this card, although the template is for a square spinner, you can modify it to make a round spinner quite easily. I found it on some Japanese site whose link I have lost.
http://www1.ttcn.ne.jp/a-nishi/popup_spinner/z_popup_spinner.html
After a quick search, here it is.
Thank you, George! I can't wait to try this pop-up! It's incredible! WOW!
My mind spins at adding meaningful words to the paper as well! I should have titled this post, "Mind Spinning!"
amazing!
Thank you, Carol. Great site you have!
I just had a look at Razani's book, Phantastische Papierarbeiten. Seems like it's only available in German. The spinner (which he calls a windmill) is in there, along with a whole bunch of other intriguing designs.
Carol
Carol, you are a darling! Thanks for sourcing/sharing this incredible mechanism! I love it!
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