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Jen
>>187268 I've never gotten around to putting that one together, though I have heard from others who have that it is a nice papercraft to use for learning the basics. The only problem I recall anyone having with it is that the person could not get it to stand on its own once complete. Others put the thing together and had no problems with balance.
When I was getting used to doing papercraft, I would check whether I should put a template together by looking at the pieces and trying to bend and fit them together in my mind. If I had trouble putting a lot of parts together mentally, then I would leave the papercraft to a later date unless I really wanted to do it. Then I looked for detailed instructions and hoped for the best.
The origami aspect of /po/ doesn't show up as much on the boards because it's more of a pain to create a finished piece of origami, backwards engineer it, and then post the diagrams for creating it all for just one project. Papercrafts are usually made by creating a 3D model on the computer, then exporting it into Pepakura, a program that can unfold the model into a printable paper template. This allows for multiple users to work on bringing just one papercraft to completion. None of this is really available to those who create their own origami creations. The amount of origami diagrams that have been made specifically for /po/ are about the same amount as the papercrafts that have been made by drawing on a piece of paper. The snake in a box papercraft is one of the few that started out that way.
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