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Category: Pictures
Posted on: January 5, 2007 8:27 AM, by Chad Orzel
A Christmas gift from my sister:
Yes, that's an origami Discworld. A big turtle, four elephants, and a flat world inhabited by silly people. All folded out of paper (well, the map was printed and cut out, but the elephants and turtle are origmai).
From a different angle:
The map got badly overexposed from the flash, but you can see the elephants a little more clearly in this one.
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Comments
# 1 | Ed Martz | January 5, 2007 9:21 AM
That's really cool.
# 2 | Kevin Q | January 5, 2007 9:42 AM
That is a little bit of awesome. Lucky you.
K
# 3 | Brian Postow | January 5, 2007 9:54 AM
Wow! what is it standing on? Crumpled blue paper?
# 4 | Chad Orzel | January 5, 2007 10:39 AM
Yeah, that's crumpled blue tissue paper.
It normally lives in a fishbowl, but I took it out so I could take pictures without the glare from the glass.
# 5 | jaro | January 5, 2007 11:45 AM
Your sister made that? Wow - you must come from a pretty impressive gene pool!
# 6 | Lai | January 6, 2007 1:14 PM
Could I have the instructions for that?
# 7 | Uncle Al | January 6, 2007 6:16 PM
Torotises, not turtles. Turtles would be silly.
# 8 | K Bescherer | January 6, 2007 8:08 PM
Very cool :D. My all-time favorite discworld recreation, though, is this Discworld Wedding Cake.
# 9 | Erin Orzel | January 9, 2007 1:39 AM
The diagram for the sea turtle (not silly, I might add!) can be found in Michael LaFosse's Advanced Origami. The elephants are from John Montroll's Dollar Bill Animals in Origami. I appreciate the positive feedback but agree that the discworld wedding cake ROCKS!
# 10 | Matt Trowsdale | February 1, 2007 6:21 AM
Now, you can just colour me impressed
# 11 | simone | February 1, 2007 1:59 PM
LOL! I just LOVE this! As you might guess, me mate and I are huge Pratchett fans....his books occupy a whole spaces on our shelves. LOng live the Pratchett and the Disc World!
# 12 | Nospoon | February 2, 2007 12:09 AM
I think your present needs a new classification for awesome.
# 13 | Amanda Ashley-Smith | February 2, 2007 2:00 PM
That is so cool - it must have taken hours! Where will you keep it?
# 14 | katyjane | February 3, 2007 8:12 PM
I am once again stunned at the creativity that people display - makes you appreciate the human race again.
# 15 | mouse | February 9, 2007 9:50 AM
Your sister should really love you, buddy! Such an impressive gift. :P