Air Bubble

malachi · Post by **malachi** » April 17th, 2006, 4:30 am

I am working on a fishtank project and I was wondering if any of you have suggestions on the best way to fold an air bubble.

thut · Post by **thut** » April 17th, 2006, 4:35 am

The traditional waterbomb (from the waterbomb base) might work well

iAm4free · Post by **iAm4free** » April 17th, 2006, 4:47 am

thut wrote:The traditional waterbomb (from the waterbomb base) might work well

Yeah you could perhaps tweak the Origami Ball to get the bubble to the shape you would want in.

wolf · Post by **wolf** » April 17th, 2006, 4:50 am

Fold it from iridescent paper or acetate.

The OUSA holiday tree for 2003 featured an underwater theme with waterbombs folded from acetate sheets. I haven't been able to find pictures so far, but I think if you searched deeper in the o-list archives, someone will have posted some.

edit: Here they are! http://www.creased.com/ousa/holidaytree.htm

malachi · Post by **malachi** » April 17th, 2006, 6:00 am

I had planned on using opalescent paper.

I have tried a few things with the waterbomb, but because I'm doing them on a fairly small scale, I'm not really happy with the result, but that's probably what I'll end up doing anyway, I just figured it wouldn't hurt to ask.

thanks,
malachi

wolf · Post by **wolf** » April 17th, 2006, 6:17 am

If it's on a small scale, it's hard to get anything simpler than a waterbomb.

One alternative is to just roll up a sheet of acetate, then pinch and twist at various points to form something resembling a string of beads.

Post by **saj** » April 17th, 2006, 1:32 pm

I love that display - how many different models do you think you used?