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Traditional model or not?
Posted: March 3rd, 2006, 4:07 pm
by Julie
Hi my kids and I used to fold an elephant since they were in kindergarden.. It looks like the blue elephant you can see here:
http://www.origami.art.pl/diagramy.php?dzial=MT&wsk=55
Is it a traditional model? and how about the jumping frog lower in the same page?
Thanks for all informations about it
Posted: March 3rd, 2006, 4:31 pm
by Daydreamer
It says for the elephant and the frog (and most other models on that page) "model tradycyjny" which, although my Polish knowledge is almost none existant, sounds very much like "traditional model" to me
Posted: March 3rd, 2006, 6:25 pm
by Julie
As you surely saw i'm not verry good in english and i don't tell you about understand Polish...I want to be sure of it, i'm looking for all traditionnal models,i'm teaching origami after school as a parascolar activity and i'm drawing my diagram for it and i don't wan't to use copyrighted material without permission.
Posted: March 3rd, 2006, 7:18 pm
by Daydreamer
The jumping frog is definitely a traditional model. I don't know about the elephant though.
If you're looking for more traditional models, there's a whole bunch of them at
Dave Petty's Model of the Month page
Hmmm.... anyone knows if there is a listing of ALL traditional models floating around somewhere?
Re: Traditional model or not?
Posted: March 4th, 2006, 3:19 pm
by jeadams
Hi Julie!
http://www.poltran.com/ translates "model tradycyjny" to "model traditional".
Jim
Posted: March 5th, 2006, 2:26 am
by Julie
Just a word: Thanks!
Posted: June 6th, 2006, 6:38 am
by Julie
I went there and saw that none of the 3 models of jumping frog was the same as the one i put a link to the picture on the polish web page...
That would be really cool if there would be a listing of all the traditional models !!
Posted: June 7th, 2006, 11:48 pm
by Edwin Corrie
The Elephant is Kasahara's, published in "Creative Origami" (1967) and later without credit in Zülal Aytüre-Scheele's first book. The Frog looks familiar. I can't place it exactly, but it's not the standard one.
The Dog and the Duck on the same page are not really traditional either. Both are fairly obvious things that are easy to invent and can't really be claimed by anyone (although the Dog looks like a simplification of other 2-piece dogs I've seen). The term "neo-traditional" has sometimes been used for models like this.
Kasahara has done some research into the classic traditional models, though I'm not sure if he's published his findings.