Under the subject 'Folding Legend and Joisel Award - Join our free event', Ilan Garibi wrote:
'Neal Elias can be considered the creator of the modern box-pleating technique' I think this assertion is worth discussing. According to Eric Kenneway's 'ABC of Origami', BOS booklet 47, box-pleating is 'a creative folding technique pioneered by F Rohm and developed by N Elias'. Kenneway explains that the crease pattern that results from 'box-pleating' is a 'multiple water bomb base or preliminary base' ie a series of concentric waterbomb bases or preliminary folds set inside each other, which can then be collapsed to form the base that Elias and others used to create designs for human figures. The question then arises as to whether 'the modern box-pleating technique' is something entirely different. On this definition Mooser's Train, for instance, would not be an example of 'box-pleating', although it is effectively made from a series of pleated boxes. Thoughts, anyone? Dave
