by Matthew Green
Reviewed by Eileen Quinn Knight, Ph.D. Profiles in Catholicism
The author of the text on the brilliance of origami is specifically fruitful in laying out the how to component of the book. It is done with color, clarity and precision. There are so many styles that can be used in origami diagrams. One end of the spectrum, some diagrammers draw the technical, geometrical ideal what the step would look like if you were to fold perfectly using a sheet with no thickness On the other end, some choose an artistic style where each step is a little work of art, but sometime less precise. No study is intrinsically better than another. Factors involved in choosing a style include the kind or origami being diagrammed, the specific skills to fit diagrammer, the aesthetic of the book and the timeframe.
The diagrams in this book are somewhere in between. They aim mostly for realism so they show you the model with some distortion due to 3D perspective and slight imprecisions in the folds due to the thickness of the paper. In some sense there is absence of creativity as the creator of the work. The color really gives sense to the thinking mind and will be so creative for the participants. It is a book suitable for all audiences and especially for the young learners in 5th through 8th grade.