Friday, October 13, 2006

Spatially Inept

I have never been good at things requiring spatial skills. I can finally read a map but that's about it. In wheelthown pottery, I could center it and thin the walls to get a great cylinder but could never get the shape I envisioned in my head into the clay. I can't do those questions on the SAT or IQ tests where you have to say which design on a flat paper will end up on top once the paper is folded into a box.

So I'm impressed by anyone who can.

Or anyone who can solve a Rubik's cube.

But I'm especially impressed by this guy. He takes one sheet of A4 paper, cuts it and folds it so that all the paper is still there, the flat part and the 3-D pop-up part are both amazing. This website has other projects of his too.

2 comments:

Tamara said...

The closest I come to anything origamically (new word i just made up) cool are my folded notes in junior high. i was pretty much awesome at that...

Sara said...

I have an origami box that i made one Christmas, but I had very clear instruction and it still took me a couple times. That guys stuff is just cool.