Saturday, 16 March 2013

Karakuri

Since my order of 
Keisuke Saka's (also info here in English) book "Karakuri" arrived
in the post the other day  
I have been busily making paper automata
from the templates inside, building up an
understanding of how these things work.

I have long been interested in automata 
and this is a great jumping off point for me,
combining paper sculpture and automata
with detailed instructions and templates.


4 comments:

  1. Now that does look interesting, Robyn! I never quite got beyond the rubber-bands-and-cardboard things we made as kids.
    Thank you for the link.

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  2. Wow! they look amazing Rob. How cool!

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  3. This looks like lots of fun, Robyn - hope you'll show us more.

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  4. Thanks Dinah, Amanda & Helen, I think they're lots of fun and I have lots of ideas in my head - now to see if I can make them actually work! I'm sure I shall have lots of fun {and probably frustration } trying :)

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