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Marvelous Modular Origami |  | Author: Meenakshi Mukerji
Publisher: A K Peters
Category: Book
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 459549
Media: Paperback
Pages: 92
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.3
ISBN: 1568813163
Dewey Decimal Number: 736.982
EAN: 9781568813165
ASIN: 1568813163
Publication Date: April 24, 2007
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Product Description
This richly illustrated book provides step-by-step instructions for the construction of over 30 different modular origami structures. The author describes basic folding techniques required to construct the modules that are used as building blocks to construct complex ornamental models. The diagrams are clear, crisp, and easy to follow, and are accompanied by inspiring color photographs. Additional tips encourage the reader to design their own original creations.
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 Marvelous Modular Models! March 3, 2010
Joy Dutta (Santa Clara, CA, USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I got this book after browsing through the author's well-known website for modular origami. It's a very nice book explaining how to make great looking modular balls. The diagrams are very clear and well described with pictures showing how the modular unit should look like in each step. Being just over an year old in the origami world, I got stumped a couple of times but seeing the diagram of the next step helped me figure out the fold. All I needed was a little bit of practice and a bit more patience. For beginners like me, it's a good practice to make one unit using a printer paper and understand all the steps. Also, I recommend reading the 'Homogeneous Color Tiling' section of the book if one is using multiple colors for making a model.
I believe even a beginner, after getting a bit familiar with the basic origami diagrams, can fold the models in the book as there are no complex folds involved. I highly recommend this book. And if you are into polyhedra and floral models, it is a must.
 No good February 19, 2010
Germana Cavalcanti (Spain)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is the second book of the same author that I bought. It is a deception. The printing quality is very bad, the format of the book is not useful and the most important thing: The diagrams are not well done and the explanation is not clear. In general most of the model are adptation from others model but not very clear. Truly is a very bad book!
wonderful October 21, 2008
Debbie C. (Oh USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is definitely not for beginners, but the art work you can create from paper is beautiful! The illustrations and instructions are easy to follow and the photography georgeous. It's a great book for all those origami creators...
This book contains some of the best and most functional origami patterns ever developed March 18, 2008
Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States(cashbacher@yahoo.com))
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
In so many ways, origami is the perfect activity for young children. Using only simple movements that even young ones can master at a high enough level, students can create beautiful things. The pot is made even sweeter by the fact that the cost of the raw materials is so low. By practicing first using printer paper, the students can hone their skills before moving on to the development of the finished product.
This book contains some of the best and most functional origami patterns ever developed. The end results are spectacular and the directions are very easy to follow. I am on good terms with the education department at Mount Mercy College and will be showing them this book when classes start this fall.
Published in Journal of Recreational Mathematics, reprinted with permission.
 Good for the beginner. December 7, 2007
Demian B. Bertozzi (Curitiba, Paraná Brazil)
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
It's a nice book about modular origami, but not so original. I've found some of its diagrams in other books or over the Internet, but here they're detailed and made easy to accomplish. Where the book is original, it's because minimal changes over past work of others. Nonetheless, it's a good compilation, worth buying if you are new to modular origami.
What is a real flaw is that the pics on the book aren't that good. Some are poorly shot. And others have average quality, but the models are badly assembled, greatly because most of the models deal with both sides colored paper, and the author build'em with single side colored ones. That spoils part of the beauty of the origamis.
The good news are that in the coda of the book you can find some mathematical descriptions of paperfolding theory, and some color schemes on how to assemble the polyhedra contained in this book. An overall good book. For the beginner.
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