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Goubergen Duck Race
Posted: January 23rd, 2009, 11:45 pm
by mrsriggins
Does anyone know where instructions of any kind for Herman van Goubergen's duck race are? I love this model and want to fold it. I just folded his car today I've had the diagram forever and I am so impressed by his ingenuity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDCG62c3ea0
Posted: January 24th, 2009, 12:06 am
by origamimasterjared
Tanteidan 107, but now they're ships instead of ducks.
Posted: January 24th, 2009, 11:08 am
by origami_8
I don't think that the ducks are diagrammed yet. Herman showed me how to fold them at the BOS 40th convention, but I've forgotten the exact folding sequence. What I remember is the underlying principle. The ducks body is made from two opposite layers that are staying to each other like an upside down V with the tips of the V being bent outwards so that they meet the walls of the water exactly. If you move the water the friction between wall and duck-ends makes the duck move. So you could try to design all kinds of little things that are able to swim on the water.