Remember how I said I fold origami when I'm stressed?



This is the same ball as was shown in the previous entry, but with an added layer on top of it. Yes, that's how it gets so big, so strong and manages to hld its shape, by me layering one batch of those lazy-S shapes on it after another.

It weighs appx 396 grams of paper. (Appx 0.8712 pounds.) A ream (500 sheets) of 17" x 22" 20# paper weighs 20#. Each pound of 20# paper covers 9350 sq", appx .8712 pounds covers appx 8145 sq". Each square covers 4 sq", so there are appx 2036 squares in there. I'll round it off to the nearest 30 and say that there should be 2040 in it (I may have misplaced one or three of the inner interconnecting pieces.

That picture is blurry. To save your bandwidth, here are two more pictures: closer and closer still

Kitten asked me to add some colour to the model. I replied that I couldn't, that the EPCOT ball in Disney World is more-or-less white. (Technically, it's some sort of maintenance-free aluminum, but white's as close as I care to get. I've folded a lot of aluminum foil in the past, and that stuff is a pain to use.)

Still, I bought some coloured paper from OffceDepot and started folding a model for her:



If you want a closeup, click here.

She knows I make them in layers, so after I showed that to her, she asked me to put on the next layer. Only problem is that the usual "tip-to-tip" layering I do doesn't work on this model; the arrangement is too close, so outer layer tends to pry the inner layer apart.

Still, she's too cute to say no to, so I had to experiment. And experiment. And ... you get the idea. Anyhow, I came up with a new way to join those pieces together and ended up with this:



I'm pretty proud of myself.