Monthly Folding Challenge September 2016

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Re: Monthly Folding Challenge September 2016

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sebl, your work is amazing, reminds my of something out of star wars.

And Gerardo, I had a Copernican revolution with my model! Probably just needed to set it down for a few days. All I need to do now is get the measurements down and make the paper I need.
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That's awesome news :D!
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Just realized my model doesn't use a square. so I can't use it lmfao. Well, I've always wanted to create this model anyway!
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HAHAHA! Oh Nepafarius :P. Well you still have time to think of something else or to improve your model adapting it to a square.
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We're down to the last ten days of this extraterrestrial challenge! Don't wait for the last minute [-X.
Michio Kaku wrote:One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion stars have Earth-like planets going around them - that's huge, half a billion. So when we look at the night sky, it makes sense that someone is looking back at us.
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/planets.html

Let your wildest dreams about the infinite night skies inspire you.
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Hey Gerardo, I finished my model. Here's what I WOULD have submitted
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8455/297 ... 45e6_z.jpg
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What do you mean with "would have". Aren't you officially submitting it?
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Here's mine! I wanted to make it unique so I designed...
A Fossilized Alien! (Wouldn't that be cool, though? Man sets foot on a different planet for the first time - and finds a FOSSILIZED ALIEN!!! Front page news! Everyone in shock! And I predicted it!!)

It was folded from one 15 inch square of painted tissue foil. And of course, the design is pure.

ImageFossilized Alien by Travis Nolan, on Flickr
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Gerardo wrote:What do you mean with "would have". Aren't you officially submitting it?
Can't. The design specifically calls for a hexagon base
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Keep those folds coming guys!
Nepafarius wrote: Can't. The design specifically calls for a hexagon base
You still have time to create something else :).
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For this month's challenge, I designed a Visitor from the book Communion by Whitley Strieber.

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If you're familiar with Communion (or even just it's very famous cover) you'll no doubt notice that I attempted to emulate the composition and coloration of the dust jacket art. I also ran the image through the Prisma app to give it a more painterly look.

The model is folded from a 7" square of lizard skin embossed paper, using the reverse side of the paper to represent the pale, flesh tone of the face and the shiny, black side to represent the eyes.

Though my depiction of a Visitor strays slightly from the one on the cover, it does so purposefully. I've attempted to to capture a few nuances and associations made in Communion and it's followups (sequels?) that aren't evident from the cover art alone.

The shape of the face and it's features are meant to be evocative of animals such as owls, mantises, and lizards. The texture of the skin is meant to imply wrinkles and age, as well as further reinforce the association with lizards. The shiny, bubble-like texture on the eyes also reinforces associations with the compound eyes of insects.
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Re: Monthly Folding Challenge September 2016

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Nepafarius wrote:
Gerardo wrote:What do you mean with "would have". Aren't you officially submitting it?
Can't. The design specifically calls for a hexagon base
What about folding an hexagon from a square, and then folding your model from it, instead of folding an hexagon from a square, cutting unwanted part to get an hexagon and folding your model from it?
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OK guys, the deadline is coming up. Today and tomorrow are the last two days of September. Use the time you have to finish and send your model before its too late ;).

Also, if you haven't voted for the theme of the next monthly design challenge, please do so here: http://snkhan.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=13839
Kabuntan wrote:What about folding an hexagon from a square, and then folding your model from it, instead of folding an hexagon from a square, cutting unwanted part to get an hexagon and folding your model from it?
The other problem I see is that it's actually an earthly virus. Nepafarius explains which in a couple of threads in the forum.
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Gerardo wrote:The other problem I see is that it's actually an earthly virus.
Yeah it was a play on the idea of 'alien,' since viruses are foreign beings inside other lifeforms.

I can't fold another one anyway, out of paper and it's raining so I can't make more.
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