Origami Fantasy by Fumiaki Kawahata
Origami Fantasy, by Fumiaki
Kawahata, is filled with extremely complex models, mostly of
dinosaurs. I folded most of these from twelve- or fifteen-inch squares,
except for the stegosaurus,
which was folded from a square with 24 inches to a side. It took me well
over an hour to fold most of these, and more than four hours to complete
the stegosaurus! If you are interested in getting this book, it may be
available at eBay, Sasuga
Books in Boston,
Massachusetts or Kinokuniya
Book Store in New York,
New York. It is also available in Japan.
All
images are ©Eric Andersen
The styracosaurus was
a Late Cretaceous ceratopsian plant-eating dinosaur. It was the size of
the modern rhinoceros, and roamed in great herds across ancient North
America. The six great spikes surrounding its frill could have been used
for display, contest, or defense; the large nose horn would have been
used for defence, especially against the large tyrannosaurs of
the time. During its charge, a Styracosaurus might have galloped at
speeds matching those of a horse. The question is, are there really any Styracosaur
bonebeds?
The herbivorous protoceratops (meaning early
horned face) lived between 75 and 85 million years ago. Sometimes
known as the 'sheep' of the Cretaceous, it is related to the giant Triceratops,
but lacks the horns. Here is a photo of a protoceratops
skeleton and a growth
series of protoceratops
skulls.
The apatosaurus (meaning deceptive
lizard) was an amphibious, herbivorous dinosaur from the Jurassic
period of North America. It was seventy feet long and weighed thirty
tons, and probably spent most of its time in lakes and rivers where the
water would have helped it to support its weight. First collected in the
late 1890s, the apatosaurus was the first sauropod dinosaur ever
mounted. Here is a page about the apatosaurus at
the American Museum of Natural History, and here are two otherpages about
this dinosaur.
One of the more unusual duckbilled dinosaurs, the parasaurolophus had
a distinctive tube-like crest projecting behind its head. Nasal passages
which ran through the crest may have been used to make sounds. Here is a
page about the parasaurolophus at
the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
The tuojiangosaurus (Tuojiangosaurus
multispinus) was named for the Tuo Jiang River, a tributary of the
Chang Jiang [Yangzte] River, in the Sichuan Basin of China, where it was
first discovered. Here is a web page about the tuojiangosaurus in
Portuguese!
The meat-eating tyrannosaurus weighed
about 7 tons and was about 45 feet tall. This is everyone's favorite
dinosaur...especially after Jurassic
Park came out...
The stegosaurus was
another plant-eater that grew as long as 25 or 30 feet!
The pegasus isn't
a dinosaur...it's not even real! But that's OK, this is origami! The
pegasus is a mythological winged horse. According to Greek mythology,
Pegasus was created from the blood of Medusa, it opened the spring of
Hippocrene with a stroke of its hoof, and it carried Bellerophon in his
attack on the Chimera.
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