Do you memorise models

[plastgeek]

I've memorized about 75% of Montrol's "Origami Sculptures" because everyone in my school wants models from that one.

[gordigami]

I have an excellent memory !
But it's short .....
I've memorized Jeremy Shafer's " Invisible Duck" !!

What was the question, again ??

[ahudson]

After seeing and posting on this topic, I've decided to start memorizing things more-- I used to has a relatively large collection of memorized models, but I haven't really added to it much in the past couple of years.

So after folding it twice, I'm almost done memorizing Satoshi Kamiya's Kirin (I also folded it once about a year ago) and I'm going to start adding in some of Hideo Komatsu's models as the week goes on.

[Starscream]

I have an excellent memory !
But it's short .....
I've memorized Jeremy Shafer's " Invisible Duck" !!

What was the question, again ??

LOL the invisible duck is jokes, it takes a pretty flexible mind to remember all those steps,

and btw if I fold the same model twice I often remember it

[foldymole]

I've quite a few simple folds committed to memory, but it's not through deliberate effort, just a result of repeated folding.

For complicated stuff, I rely on diagrams. I feel happier folding major pieces when I'm at home, and that's where the books live.

However, I've found after a few trys of a complicated fold I just give the diagram a quick glance as I fold, just to jog my memory.

Eric Joisel's hedghog I could do from memory after the first one, but I put that down to the fact it's mostly one sequence of fold repeated.

Speaking of repetition, do the tessellation folders have their stuff comitted to memory?

[ahudson]

Speaking of repetition, do the tessellation folders have their stuff committed to memory?

Yes, but not just because of repetition-- also because the structures are more straightforward than in most representational models, and they're much more obvious when looking at a folded copy.