Pop-Up Tutorial 5 - Parallel-folds Part 1 Parallelogram

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Fantastic videos! Thank you for making and sharing these with the world. They are without a doubt the definitive tutorials on paper engineering how to. I’ve shared them with loads of people. If you’re wondering how to prevent your parallel folds from sticking out of the book when closed, I’ll share what I’ve found via trial, error, and measurement. Please correct me if I’m wrong. You should make sure that the total length of your parallel piece (not including glue tabs) is equal to or ideally less than the width distance of your page from the spine to the page edge. For example, if your page is 14 cm wide from the spine to the edge, you can have legs on your parallel piece that are 10 cm and 3.5 cm (not including the glue tabs). If the legs are 10 cm and 6 cm, some of it will protrude. I have the book Haunted House that Duncan shared. The brown stairs are a good example of this principle. The page width is 19 cm. The legs of the base of the stairs are about 13 cm and 4 cm. When closed, the stairs do not stick out of the book.

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When you have a pop-up card opened halfway, 90° instead of 180°, can you make a box? Like making side walls for the yellow parallelograms at 1:45 - when I just take rectangles, fold them diagonally and glue them in, it works, but it looks rather crappy. In other words: Can you have the two halves of the card perpendicular to each other, one as bottom and one as background, with a pop-up plane that is perpendicular to both of them, but does not have any creases on it? Is that at all possible? I couldn't find an example anywhere.

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I don't think it is possible to add a piece without a crease - someone may invent it, but I've never seen it. And yes there is always a problem that when one adds a piece as you describe it does tend to open into a rather awkward shape. All I can suggest is that the added piece is made of thinner card (or even paper) and that the fold is very thoroughly scored and creased before sticking it in place.

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Have a look at Tutorial 84 at 1.45.

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Hi. Tutorial 5 at 14.07 shows how to build a Parallelogram - to make stairs start with a tall parallelogram, then build a shorter one onto it, then build a shorter one onto that ... and so on. Another way is to use Counterfolds - Tutorial 1 at 4.32 shows a basic Counterfold, Tutorial 22 at 3.57 shows how it can be made into several steps. There is a glimpse of another (more complicated) one in Tutorial 5 at 2.37, this is also based on the type of Counterfolds explained in Tutorial 22 at 12.21 - this variation is not explained in the Tutorials but if you have access to the book it is explained on page 114. I hope all this is helpful to you..

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Hello Mr Birmingham I wanted to know if it better to go through all 84 of your tutorials before I dive into The book Ok lete know

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Probably look through the book first but when you start making pop-ups use the book and the tutorials together - everything in the book is covered in the videos and explained in a little more depth.

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I'm glad you like them. I filmed another 10 videos recently, they're being processed now and I hope to release them in the next few weeks.

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Tutorial 6

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The parallel fold is easier to understand than v folds, I think

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Parallel Folds are about the distance between folds - V-Folds are about the angles between folds.

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I would like to build a sort of cube to hold with the base at 90 degrees, like at 6:50. To do this I would like to add 2 new faces to the sides of the parallel folds. A full cube. Is all this possible? It can be done? Maybe by adding v folds under parallel folds ....

[@thepop-upchannel4919]

Yes you could add V-Folds to the ends of the Parallel-Fold to create a cube - this is never very satisfactory as the ends will still tend to bend a little. The most solid form for a cube is the Box (Tutorial 14).

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