Origami Diagram
折り図 / 1950s– / Style / Diagrammatic Expression
The dotted-line-and-arrow language systematized by Akira Yoshizawa for writing three-dimensional folding onto flat pages. Mountain and valley folds read across languages, and the crease pattern became an object of mathematics.
Mountain and valley line styles / Arrows guiding each step / Sequential step diagrams / The geometry of crease patterns
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Yoshizawa and the Yoshizawa-Randlett system / Robert Lang's computational origami / the diagrams' international legibility