Origami And Folded Paper | Origami And Folded Paper Guide

This craft stimulates mental development, and is a fun and enriching way too. Have you always wanted to learn making origami figures but just never found the time to do so? Make time. There are many benefits to learning origami, and you can reap these benefits when you learn the craft yourself. Why do you think Japanese schoolchildren are taught the art of paper folding while they're very young? Develop new skills or enhance existing ones to boot!

Here are three reasons you may want to start learning making origami today.

1. It Develops and Improves Motor Skills

In patients who have had hand surgery or sustained grave hand injuries, folding paper can be great therapy. As they make their hands "exercise", they will eventually find themselves regaining better control of their hands' movements. At the same time, they are slowly strengthening their hand muscles and building their strength.

In young children, paper folding is a great way to develop motor skills. Moreover, it enhances hand-eye coordination in a way that develops imaginative and figurative thinking.

2. It Simplifies Mathematical Concepts

Math can be a pain to learn, especially for kids who just can't be bothered to listen to discussions involving problem solving, sequencing, and geometry. But making origami shapes is an excellent way to teach mathematical concepts like symmetry, measurement, and fractions. It's fun, it's interesting, and it doesn't feel like a class lecture at all!

3. It Develops Patience

Origami is not a craft for the impatient. Doing nothing but fold, fold, and fold paper can drive anyone who's impatient mad. Toss in the repetitive steps and the continuous efforts that may be required to get a shape right and you have an activity that's a true test of patience of anyone from 8 to 88. However, learning origami pays off. As you work on your paper, you will learn to be more patient.

These are only some of the benefits of making origami patterns. Why not reap these benefits by learning to fold paper today?

I recently rented the dvd of the movie Stealth(2005). The story envisions that future fighter jets are piloted by sophisticated computers to the extent that the lethal automated jets can think on their own without human pilots. In the end, it is the humans that are charged to prevent the war instead.

I am very passionate about fighter planes. I follow the history of the development of the various military jet planes especially those that can perform precision strike missions. One of my favourites is the Grumman F-14 Tomcat.

Grumman F-14 Tomcat is a supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, variable geometry wing aircraft. The F-14 was the United States Navy's primary maritime air superiority fighter, fleet defense interceptor and tactical reconnaissance platform from 1974 to 2006, developed after the collapse of the F-111B project, and was the first of the American teen-series fighters which were designed incorporating the experience of air combat in Vietnam against the Russian-developed MiGs.

Replacing the F-4 Phantom II, the F-14 Tomcat was retired from the U.S. Navy fleet on 22 September 2006, having been replaced by the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. It was the largest and heaviest U.S. fighter to ever fly from an aircraft carrier, its size a consequence of the requirement to carry both the large AWG-9 radar and the extremely long-range AIM-54 Phoenix missiles.

Armament included the main gun M61 Vulcan, with 676 rounds and 4,000 or 6,000 RPM selectable firing rate. In addition, 6,700 kg of stores could also be carried for combat missions in several hard points under the belly and on wing-mounted hardpoints, usually a combination of two - four Phoenixs or Sparrows on the belly stations, two Phoenixs/Sparrows on the wing hardpoints, and two Sidewinders on the wing hardpoints. Some deployments also used four AIM-7 Sparrows (on the belly) and four AIM-9 Sidewinders (on the wingmounts).

My interest in fighter planes had me going around collecting display models. In addition, I have for many years developed paper models of these planes. With some innovative folding techniques, I have managed to develop some of them which look like the real deal. In addition to F-14 Tomcat, I manage to make origami fighter planes in the likes of the RQ-4 Global Hawk, F-117 Night Hawk and Aurora.