On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 12:37 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> From the book, Origami, 51 Modelli, page 122 In Italian. > > The diagrams for this rectangular box are clear but the proportions of the rectangular paper are not. It is not 2 to 1. The notation under the first step says: "Il lato maggiore deve essere leggermente piu grande del doppio del lato minore" Which, machine-translated - thank you, http://translate.google.com/ - says: "The longest side should be slightly bigger than double of the smaller side." But looking at the next step, it appears that the exact opposite must actually be true: that the long side must be SMALLER than twice the short side. If it's exactly twice, then the X's meet in a point, and you don't get the little hinge in between, and I think you get a cube as the end result, which lacks the little hinge, and thus might not hold together as well; if it's larger than that, you get a strip of un-involved paper between the X's, and the collapse doesn't work as shown. I'm not sure what the practical lower limit is (other than 1:1, obviously). Try it and see and report back! Anne
