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I have seen many excellent origami lobsters and crabs, namely by John Montroll and Robert Lang, but I have never come across a good shrimp model. Any sugestions?

There was one in a book I had but I don't have this book with me anymore . Sorry

There was one in a book I had but I don't have this book with me anymore Sad . Sorry

wow, that's what I call a completely useless answer



I'm pretty sure, there is one in a Momotani book. I have to check out...


Christian

Searching the Origamidatabase for shrimp gives some usefull results.
A simple diagram (including cuts!) can be found here: http://www.origami-club.com/mizunonakam ... /index.htm

There's a crayfish in Manuel Sirgo's book Papiroinsectos - if you narrow the body somewhat and then squeeze it flat, it ends up looking like a shrimp.

thanx for the info.

i'll have to check out those books.

I somehow had a wrong picture in my mind.

I'm sorry about that


Christian

ps: HERESY, Chris broke the copyright rules... burn him...

hey chris, what are those many legged bugs called? and is there any sort of instruction available? the model looks really cool....and can you like curl up the model? or do you have to like "fold" it "curled" or "not curled"? i remember seeing somthing similar on komatsu's site....i think he called it a potato insect or caterpillar or somthing, and you can enlarge it and and wiggle it and shrink it...fun stuff, wish i knew how to make either of them

Morgan wrote:hey chris, what are those many legged bugs called? and is there any sort of instruction available?

I think they are called pillbugs. There is a model of a pillbug in "origami insects and their kin" by Robert Lang.

i used to love playing with those things as a kid...hehe and once i had a job as a janitor at a retail store, and one found its way into the women's department, so i picked it up, and let it crawl over me the whole day...and it stayed! amazing fun creatures

I think that those "many legged things" are Milipeads, adn not pillbugs. Because I have seen Mr. Lang's book (I have it) and His model is alot shorter.

In german we call this creature "Kellerassel". The LEO-Dictionary translates that as "slater", "woodlouse" or "scabby sow bug".

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In german we call this creature "Kellerassel". The LEO-Dictionary translates that as "slater", "woodlouse" or "scabby sow bug".

Very interesting, unfortunantly that whole site is in german, so I can not read any of it oh well......

Anyway we call em milipeads in the U.S.

Searching for pill bugs on google gives:
http://images.google.com.br/images?q=pi ... a=N&tab=wi

Below are some pictures of pill bugs:





Searching for millipede the results are:

http://images.google.com.br/images?num= ... a=N&tab=wi

Some pictures of millipedes:




To me that origami model could be a pill bug as well as a millipede...

those models are cool but i dont think they represent anything that lives. Woodlice (pillbugs) have 14 legs and are the only fully land-based crustacean. millipedes have anything up to 300ish legs and have four per segment. This models seems somewhere in between. i love it though... any legal diagrams at all?