h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A526439

Umm.. don't quite know what to say. Except that there's nothing on origami as yet in the edited guide. And it's a nice trivial thing to know about. So, here's an article on it. Scouts, peers, do your worst

As always, I think you've done a fantastic job, Inanna! And I learnt heaps!

What I'd like to see in it is a bit on why origami has so much appeal: what it is about paper folding that entices people to spend so much time on it.

As a personal nitpick (and it's purely a style preference of mine, so make of it what you will), I probably wouldn't say 'Another h2g2 article tells the story of Sadako and the Peace Crane.' but maybe just incorporate the link into your flow of thought. And I'd probably do the same with your other links, but that's just me.

But it's fantastic, Inanna, well done. A definite must for the guide!

Thanks for the suggestions, SMoB - helpful and good as always. I've changed the wording of the Sadako link, and added another paragraph on the appeal of Origami. At least, as general as I can get it.

Practically perfect in every way!

I can't imagine that this will sit long here in Peer Review...

A lovely and fascinating article.

I have had an interest in Origami but I have never found the time to pursue it. This article goes a long way toward opening up the possibilities of Origami.

I have only one slight nit to pick. One of your headers has no space before the text that follows it. See! A very nitty nit.

'Edit' this one immediately.

Barton

Found and corrected. Thanks Barton.

Now I'll just await a passing scout..

That's wonderful, Inanna. Great job, as always.

ditto to previous, and i, too, have a nitpicky nit to pick: where you say "Some of his most famous models include a horse, lionsand even origami smoking!", you left out a space between lions and and. just a very small thing. love the picture you chose!

lovely article!

Just as a side note: In the Deutsches Museum (Science&Technology Museum, Munich-Oberschleissheim) they used the technique to build small aircraft models out of tin foil. Accurate down to the propellers and landing gear. However, I don't know if they used square sheets or cuts to build them.

Space inserted, thanks for the correction.

And I didn't know about the dutch museum. That's very cool. Tin foil can be used, either on its own, or spray-mounted to tissue paper, to make paper that can be used particularly for fine, small models, with lots of detail, like claws on dragons etc.

That'd be an interesting thing to add; unless you have all ready?

Wonderful! Wonderful!. I'm not sure if the third footnote ("while unicycling") is actually necessary though - I'd have put that as part of the sentence it's attached to.

This is a very comprehensive article.

Wasn't there a technique invented in the 90s which involved folding a huge number of identical bases out of a single sheet? There was an article in New Scientist about it. It provides any amount of corners, which can be used for various things. This allows extremely complex models to be created. I saw one of a cuckoo clock, complete with cuckoo, hands, leaves around the clock and pine-cone weights.

Perhaps you have already covered this technique and I didn't recognise it.

This is excellent. Good subject, well written. I could have spent too many hours checking out the links. Wonderful stuff.

Yep, that's Robert Lang's cuckoo clock. He's also the author of the wonderful 'origami insects' book, which includes various beetles, bugs, all with the correct number of appendages, antennae, wings, etc etc. He's devised a computer program to help get the points in the right place. I'll add a paragraph on him and his work. Thanks.

OK, Robert Lang and his work now gets his own bullet point, along with links to pictures of the cuckoo clock, and his allosaurus skeleton.

Thanks for the reminders

glad you finished that so soon, because congragulations! your entry has now acheived the lofty status of Reccommended.(if it turned out it wasn't done, that could be awkward as it had already been accepted for editing) you'll be glad to know that we think your entry is great and that it will sometime be a part of the Edited Guide. you will be emailed when the editing process is finished and it gets in, but please keep in mind that this can take awhile. thanks for writing for the Guide, and for your reccommendation!

Wow! Thank you very much, for accepting it, and for doing it so quickly!

Guess now I just have to be patient and wait...

One tiny suggestion to an otherwise *great* entry - in a few places (eg, David Brill) you link to particular subpages - it'd be better to only link to the main 'entry' page - subpages like this have a tendency to get moved around, resulting in broken links...

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Congratulations!