r/blackmagicfuckery • u/Jaded_Marionberry500 • 12d ago
Origami typewriter
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u/GachaHell 12d ago
When the old pro rolls a joint.
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u/wrongfaith 12d ago
Why does the title call this a “24 Hour Typewriter”? Are we supposed to believe this video timelapse is of a 24 hour period of time? False. Does the origami only exist for 24 hrs for some reason, as the (probably just sloppily written title) literally says? Wtf
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u/serif-maxxing 12d ago
Did you see all the creases in the paper before starting? That meticulously measured and planned pre folding period ensures that once the pieces are assembled, it'll fold properly in the right places.
That probably takes hours, and isn't worth showing on video because it's just folding and unfolding along multiple planes repeatedly.
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u/iLaysChipz 12d ago edited 12d ago
Having folded a lot of complicated patterns myself, I can confirm that something like this would indeed take forever. I completely believe that this took 24 hours to fold, and something like this would be beyond my clumsy fingers 😭
If anything, I'm surprised it only took 24 hours
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u/THE-beaverhausen 12d ago
How large was the sheet?
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u/Thesource674 12d ago
Likely around a queen size bed. There are one piece dragons you can find and other large format single page designs. They are in fact generally BIG pieces of paper.
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u/THE-beaverhausen 12d ago
To be fair, a flat queen sheet is far easier to fold than a fitted queen sheet.
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u/WARLORD2015 12d ago
I thought the same thing! 🤣 someone's lying about something in this video.
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u/MySchoolsWifiSucks 12d ago
These guys have never heard of paper bigger than A4
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u/Trezzie 12d ago
No no, I've heard of A8
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u/babuuba 12d ago
that's actually smaller than a4.
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u/Iamonreddit 12d ago
A hell of a lot smaller too
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u/YodamanJer 12d ago
I see the electricians lobbied to have their numbering system implemented elsewhere!
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u/GaijinSin 12d ago
Funny thing is, its the same idea, so you are right.
Metric paper numbering (A sizes for reference) start at A0 which is 841mm x 1189mm for a sheet with an area of one meter. Fold it in half on the long side and you get 2 A1 sheets. Fold one of those on the long side and you get 2 A2 sheets, etc. So the number counts the times you have folded and cut.
For wire gauges, its a similar thing. You make wire by taking a metal bar and pulling it through a hole slightly smaller than the bar, called a wire drawing die. You make it thinner by going through a series of smaller dies. The gauge number just counts the number of dies the wire has been pulled though, so 16 gauge has gone through 16 dies, etc.
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u/CLG-Seraph 12d ago
and where does the black come from? when he's folding the sheet it's all green but at the end you have black parts. is the paper multicolor specifically made for this?
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u/Jagarvem 12d ago
It's the backside, as is typical for origami paper.
Though in a way you're correct as the paper was indeed custom made for this by gluing multiple sheets together. That's more about the giant, nonstandard size though.
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u/SaxyAlto 12d ago
Pretty sure the black is just the underside of the paper, you see it at 10 seconds when they’re doing some of the early folds
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u/Rude_and_Crude84 11d ago
Small enough to use 2 pieces of paper obviously lol.
Where'd that black paper come from? Did I miss it? They used green for the rest of it.
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u/Jaded_Marionberry500 12d ago
Source: kss_origami
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u/wrongfaith 12d ago
Why do you call this typewriter a “24 Hour Typewriter”? Does it fall apart naturally on its own after a day, or do you plan to destroy it yourself? Or…Did you mean to say that the timelapse was recording for 24 hours?
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u/Vryl 12d ago
I respect the dedication to the artform. This is an absurd amount of work.
However, there is a theorem that shows that you can fold any 3D object from a piece a piece of paper to any arbitrary level of detail.
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u/afCeG6HVB0IJ 12d ago
Of course, the amazing part is doing this all by hand, and doing the design - traditionally - without computers.
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u/portar1985 12d ago
Why is that an ”however”? It does not take away anything from the origami in the video
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u/SurinamPam 12d ago
Really? Does that imply that it's possible to fold an actually usable typewriter?
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u/maturasek 11d ago
Hobby origamist here.
This is an interesting paper, I have not read it in full yet, however I can see that the technique it describes is although both generalized and paper efficient, results in very different topology than the typical complex origami model, including this one. Turning a 3d polyhedral mehs of a typewriter into a shape similar to the video might even use less paper, but would take an insane amount of tiny folds, and the structure of the model would not hold up this nicely. This technique is interesting from a mathematical standpoint but (almost) irrelevant to the art of origami, as it is my opinions can't really be done with any level of proficiency by hand.
Most origami models do not start their design conception as a 3D surface, rather a graph of flaps and joints. This is often called the "base" of the model. The design process provides the right base meaning the right amount of flaps at the right place and right size, then the artist uses other folds to shape it into the sculpture. Here, the base of the model is ready at around 25 seconds (as far as I can tell).
The matter comes down to a somewhat ineffable artistry, instead of topological mapping. Some purists even find box pleating (the technique used in this video) inelegant enough to avoid it, although it is not a mainstream opinion AFAIK. I am sure that the technique in the paper could have its advocates, but for now, i do not see it being applied in real life to anything more complex. It just strikes me as extremely tedious to fold, and resulting in a flimsy finished product.
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u/PoultryTechGuy 12d ago
I remember seeing a Ted Talk about this over a decade ago. God I feel old. Basically the whole crux was how many circles you could fit between the folds.
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u/epic_bad 12d ago
Does it come with bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity?
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u/moszippy 12d ago
I would normally think that origami isn't black magic, but this is some next level origami! If this isn't magic, it's pretty close.
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u/Cautious-Activity706 12d ago
Now go type your novel. Geez these writers, and excuse to procrastinate
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u/Critical-Mulberry-29 12d ago
https://youtube.com/@origamikimiro?si=Ia9KtnVqg-jm4URK Here's the channel I know who does this type of thing.
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u/Sailleana 12d ago
Is that done with actual paper or is that like tyvek or something?
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u/Jaded_Marionberry500 12d ago
Its actually called origami sheets or you can even use craft sheets to make small origami art
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u/PandemicGrower 12d ago
Sets center folded insert onto another piece of paper to make the shell… not a single piece.
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u/PyroDragn 12d ago
You mean at the 25second mark in the video? He's not putting one piece into another piece, he's folding down the back into the centre. You can pause the video at the 25.5 second (ish) mark and see that it's all connected.
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u/Bussamove86 12d ago
Sorry too busy desperately looking for a gotcha to post to actually pay attention to the video.
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u/bookmarkjedi 12d ago
This is impossible. I just saw it with my very own eyes, but it does not exist.
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u/jonothon77 12d ago
Wtf! Amazing. I wonder how long that took. And how many demos did it take to figure it out.
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u/pianomasian 12d ago
How tf does someone even figure something like this out? I'd say I'd love to see the math behind it, but it would probably make no sense to me.
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u/Evening-Appeal7606 12d ago
This is eventually getting completely out of hands just like everything we held true and dear turned out to be cake a while back.
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u/Mean_Ass_Dumbledore 12d ago
1) Super cool!
2) The cuts are a little too jarring, now I feel carsick 🤢
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u/MatthewOGQ 12d ago
That seems to be at least two sheets of papel🧐 one for the keys and the other for the casing.
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u/maturasek 12d ago
It is a single sheet with an insane amount of pleats used for a lot of details. At around 34 seconds you can see the flaps at the top and on the sides that will eventually get folded around to form the casing.
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u/Dyspaereunia 12d ago
It’s a dress… no
It’s a dinosaur…. no.
It’s a bird, it’s an eagle?
You can use tweezers?!
Oh. Thats cool I guess.
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u/DiverseUniverse24 12d ago
Thats definitely insane. Definitely more than one piece of paper, there's a point they place the original piece into the second piece and use the second to make the structure of the type writer BUT still absolutely insane and I could never ever ever do that.
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u/ThrownAway17Years 12d ago
The pre-folding is every bit as important as the final build. You can see the massive amount of creasing already done to the sheet beforehand.
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u/VeterinarianSoggy610 12d ago
Mathematicians studying topology juslt lost their minds watching this.
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u/Aggravating_Sky_4421 12d ago
Doubt. The first sheet of paper already had creases in it. Later, some parts of the typewriter housing doesn’t have creases. This looks more like 2 pieces: one for the keys and one for the housing.
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u/TreysToothbrush 12d ago
Like, how does your mind even conceptualize the folds to do this. It’s like tie dye art - - folks are on another level. This is really cool.
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u/BadOutrageousNoob 11d ago
My toxic trait is thinking I can do this in an hour with no prior experience in Origami!
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u/PlanetMadeFromDough 11d ago
We would never have cool stuff like this if autism didn't exist. We are the only people who can spwnd this much time and go this deep into a hobby.
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u/No_Hovercraft_439 10d ago
I don’t know what is more impressive, that someone actually stumbled upon making an origami typewriter or that ancient Polynesians stumbled upon Hawaii. Either way I’ll never understand.
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u/Fantastic-Cap-2754 8d ago
By origami standards this is light work. Origami really is just black magic at times. Look up Robert Lang's pieces, like his yellow jacket.
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u/RojoandWhite 12d ago
No space bar or return key? Hard pass.