Also, as a total aside, this: "over their conventionally folded*" should be punishable by death. Putting an asterisk next to something then not explaining it is pure evil.
Ref: http://www.armystudyguide.com/content/army_board_study_guide...
Interesting, Y2K must have hit pretty bad for them.
If you've ever had your map fall to pieces in the snow, you'll learn to appreciate tyvek maps.
Even worse is trying to fold back the papers inside medication boxes. They never fold back to the state they were in.
That's what the back seat is for. Younger people probably don't know that.
However, the advent of smartphones has made that sort of thing less useful. And for serious wilderness navigation this kind of map folding is very unhelpful since maps tend to be big and it helps to keep the map partially folded so you can focus on one area.
So, an A4 sheet of paper is worth 2 months of agenda. 6 will last me a year.
I'm too lazy to buy an agenda, but now I have one. Thank you.
And another guide (pdf): http://mars.wnec.edu/~thull/combgeom05/handout7.pdf
Link: http://www.britishorigami.info/academic/miura.php
Ted Talk (11m 35s): http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_lang_folds_way_new_origami.h...
[1] http://spacesymmetrystructure.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/origa... [2] http://www.flickr.com/photos/53416300@N00/1028178660
Update: its not. But if you are interested: patent (in german) with visual explanation can be found here:
http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?loc...
I wasn't able to get is into the compact folded shape. As far as I can tell, I have the correct folds, but I did some guessing to follow each step.
I've tried 3 with different parallelogram angles. The higher you take this angle, the easier it is to fold, however, it's harder to mash together in the final step nicely. The end result also looks less neat if it's too high.
I just tried it with US "Letter" paper (8.5 x 11) instead of the A/B size mentioned. To compensate for the different aspect ratio, I used 4x4 folds instead of 4x6. It worked out nicely.
