Samuel Randlett
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Samuel L Randlett is an origami
artist who helped develop the modern system for diagramming origami folds. Together with Robert Harbin
he developed the notation introduced by Akira Yoshizawa
to form what is now called the Yoshizawa-Randlett
system. This was first described in Samuel Randlett's Art of Origami in 1961.
Born Jan 11 1930. Samuel Randlett graduated from Northwestern University and became a music professor, he still teaches piano. He became interested in paper-folding in 1958 and within a year had his own figures on display at the Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration in New York. At the age of 30 started work on The Art of Origami. His first wife Jean did the illustrations for this and most of his subsequent books. He came to know most of the then fairly small origami community round the world and edited an origami newsletter called The Flapping Bird from 1969 to 1976.
Origami
is the traditional Japanese art of paper folding, which started in the 17th century AD at the latest and was popularized outside Japan in the mid-1900s. It has since then evolved into a modern art form...
artist who helped develop the modern system for diagramming origami folds. Together with Robert Harbin
Robert Harbin
Robert Harbin was a British magician and writer. He is noted as the inventor of a number of classic illusions, including the Zig Zag Girl...
he developed the notation introduced by Akira Yoshizawa
Akira Yoshizawa
Akira Yoshizawa was considered to be the grandmaster of origami. He is credited with raising origami from a craft to a living art...
to form what is now called the Yoshizawa-Randlett
Origami techniques
The Yoshizawa-Randlett system is a diagramming system used to describe the folds of origami models. Many origami books begin with a description of basic origami techniques which are used to construct the models. There are also a number of standard bases which are commonly used as a first step in...
system. This was first described in Samuel Randlett's Art of Origami in 1961.
Born Jan 11 1930. Samuel Randlett graduated from Northwestern University and became a music professor, he still teaches piano. He became interested in paper-folding in 1958 and within a year had his own figures on display at the Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration in New York. At the age of 30 started work on The Art of Origami. His first wife Jean did the illustrations for this and most of his subsequent books. He came to know most of the then fairly small origami community round the world and edited an origami newsletter called The Flapping Bird from 1969 to 1976.