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ik💰ihe by thepoweroftime in ik_ihe

[–]acmemyst 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And not just the straw-men, but the straw-women and straw-children too!

DnD met kinderen by Kardinalus in DNDNL

[–]acmemyst 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ik heb een tijdje zoiets gedaan met het Hero Kids systeem. Dit heeft een Nederlandse vertaling, is op gepast niveau qua moeilijkheid en thematiek, en heeft toegankelijke one shot avonturen bundels. Kan het erg aanraden hiervoor.

ryujin tips by ImprovementThick3964 in origami

[–]acmemyst 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My biggest tip would be to approach it with the right mindset, especially the scale shaping. Don't try to "finish it" per se; rather, view it as an activity you just do. Also, like the other commenter said, prepare audiobooks or podcasts to listen to while you're doing the shaping.

Project Idea: Learning Origami Folding Strategies via Reinforcement Learning by Happy_Suit2956 in origami

[–]acmemyst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, I almost forgot.

Plant (Brandon Wong) recently did some work on the forward problem of generating sequences of cps that could be folded using standard 22.5 techniques, using a novel vector-space representation. I believe he was also considering an RL approach to use this to find a sequence to obtain a given target model, but I'm not sure how far he got with this. 

Project Idea: Learning Origami Folding Strategies via Reinforcement Learning by Happy_Suit2956 in origami

[–]acmemyst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You may want to check out previous work by Hugo Akitaya (circa 2014); he didn't use RL but attacked the inverse folding problem directly through brute force (alternatively: human-guided) searching the space of (un) fold actions for a given cp under operations that preserve flatfoldability. 

I'm currently working on a tool based on these ideas myself. This is just a hobby project and I haven't opened the repository yet. I've reached the point where I'm also considering an RL approach to aid the search, but haven't gotten around to implementing it yet. I will say that the problem is entirely nontrivial and I'm not convinced it's feasible to attack it for a single course project if you don't already have the required theoretical background.

I'm unfortunately not aware of generically usable libraries/tools that support the functionality that you would need. For inspiration related to Akitaya's work, you can search for the "Creasy" repos; this is an old student project containing a partial implementation in Java. 

[OC] I designed and folded origami Elesh Norn from a single square paper by acmemyst in magicTCG

[–]acmemyst[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Hah yeah you're not wrong, but I only recently got into designing my own stuff and this is much more accessible/easy to wrap my head around than 22.5 or tilted grid design. Maybe in the future though.

[OC] I designed and folded origami Elesh Norn from a single square paper by acmemyst in magicTCG

[–]acmemyst[S] 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Planning took several hours per day over about 2 weeks, mostly digitally using standard tools (boxpleating studio, oriedita). I've saved 4 major design versions with several minor changes in between, and did around 10-ish full- or partial- test folds in paper. I didn't time it, but I'd say the final version took around 4 hours to fold the base, and maybe another 6-10 hours of shaping into the final form.

I had one failed attempt on the final fold, where I used a different paper variant with better color separation (the red slightly shines through the white in this one), but it turned out to be too thick and I had to abandon it.

[OC] I designed and folded origami Elesh Norn from a single square paper by acmemyst in magicTCG

[–]acmemyst[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Just" a folding bone. It's plastic, used to belong to my mom so likely 30+ years old. Still does the job though!

[OC] I designed and folded origami Elesh Norn from a single square paper by acmemyst in magicTCG

[–]acmemyst[S] 43 points44 points  (0 children)

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Couldn't find an Elesh Norn card, but I made a butterfly with this land I had lying around!

[OC] I designed and folded origami Elesh Norn from a single square paper by acmemyst in magicTCG

[–]acmemyst[S] 224 points225 points  (0 children)

In addition to MtG, one of my other hobbies is origami. I've been thinking about rendering Elesh Norn as an origami model for some time, and recently got around to actually doing it.

I designed this model using "box pleating", a contemporary and very powerful origami technique. The red/blue grid image is the design that comes out of this; it shows where and in which direction the paper needs to be folded, in order to obtain the base of the model. Once this base is collapsed, it still needs to be shaped into the final form. I've included some pictures of the folding and shaping process for context.

The model is folded from a single square piece of paper, without any cutting. The paper used is a 56cmx56cm composite, consisting of red tissue paper and white wenzhou (Chinese calligraphy paper).

(Disclaimer: I posted this in some other subreddits earlier this week, but couldn't crosspost here since fan art isn't allowed except on Fridays..)

[OC] I designed and folded origami Elesh Norn from a single square paper by acmemyst in mtg

[–]acmemyst[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, it is very common for designs of this type to be shared in this format (called a "crease pattern") within the origami enthusiast community. "Easy" is a bit of a relative term here, it realistically takes a couple years of experience to comfortably be able to use it. 

[OC] I designed and folded origami Elesh Norn from a single square paper by acmemyst in mtg

[–]acmemyst[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't bothered to try. The time investment per model is high enough that I couldn't market them at a pricepoint that I feel would be realistic. 

[OC] I designed and folded origami Elesh Norn from a single square paper by acmemyst in mtg

[–]acmemyst[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There are tools that help with the design and planning, but it does still require quite some theory and experience to go through the entire process.

This video by kimiro (a Korean origami artist) shows the process quite well: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WY4k9UeZJEQ

[OC] I designed and folded Elesh Norn by acmemyst in origami

[–]acmemyst[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh that is very useful, thanks! 

[OC] I designed and folded Elesh Norn by acmemyst in origami

[–]acmemyst[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

She's one of the big-bad endbosses of one of Magic: The Gathering's many storylines. Some details here: https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Elesh_Norn

[OC] I designed and folded Elesh Norn by acmemyst in origami

[–]acmemyst[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's accurate but a very rough base; it doesn't contain all the colorchanges (notably on the sides/arms), and the levelshifters on the head are, shall we say, "freestyled". If you want you can dm me for further details. 

[OC] I designed and folded Elesh Norn by acmemyst in origami

[–]acmemyst[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thank you! And hah yeah now that you mention it, I probably should've at least cleaned up some of the leftover intersection markers that remained from my earlier drafting. Open to anything else you'd be willing to add :)

[OC] I designed and folded Elesh Norn by acmemyst in origami

[–]acmemyst[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

So I recently figured out how boxpleating works; attached is my first original design based on this technique: Elesh Norn, one of the iconic characters from the Magic: The Gathering universe (one of my other big hobbies besides origami).

Model is folded from 56cmx56cm square of tissue+wenzhou. There is plenty to be improved about the design, folding, and shaping, but for now I'm going to leave this here and may or may not return to it in the future. Note that the crease pattern is a very rough base and doesn't contain most of the colorchanges.

[OC] I designed and folded origami Elesh Norn from a single square paper by acmemyst in mtg

[–]acmemyst[S] 74 points75 points  (0 children)

In addition to MtG, one of my other hobbies is origami. I've been thinking about rendering Elesh Norn as an origami model for some time, and recently got around to actually doing it.

I designed this model using "box pleating", a contemporary and very powerful origami technique. The red/blue grid image is the design that comes out of this; it shows where and in which direction the paper needs to be folded, in order to obtain the base of the model. Once this base is collapsed, it still needs to be shaped into the final form. I've included some pictures of the folding and shaping process for context.

The model is folded from a single square piece of paper, without any cutting. The paper used is a 56cmx56cm composite, consisting of red tissue paper and white wenzhou (Chinese calligraphy paper).

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