Re: Hello Stretched Bird Base question

Bless you my friends! I can't wait to use your guidance!
"Scott Cramer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On 05 Nov 2003, coffydog spake unto rec.arts.origami:
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> > Hello all:
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> >   New folder here but quite good at following direction and using
> >   diagrams!
> > I am having great problems with the "stretched bird base". It seems no
> > matter what book or what diagram I look at/search for, there are no
> > diagrams of the inside of the stretched bird base!
> > One diagram says "stretch for a different internal structure" what the
> > heck is that supposed to mean? another says "fold side down". down?
> > down where? Sideways, longways? I am working on the hummingbird model
> > and cannot go further without some explanation of what the stretched
> > bird base looks like inside!
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>     Take your birdbase by two opposite points, with the blunt point (the
> center of the paper) pointing up.  Stretch the two points apart until the
> center of the paper is flat.  Valley fold on the long crease that connects
> the two points.  You now have a 3-D model that won't fold flat.
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>     Turn the model over.  Push the middle of the rib that runs beween the
> two long points away from you, while bringing the two long points down
> towards you, together.  Everything now lays flat - you have a stretched
> birdbase with internal structure.
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>     As for "fold side down" - you're on your own!
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> Scott
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