Paper Engineering & Pop-ups For Dummies
Chapter One
Unfolding the Mystery
of Paper Engineering
In This Chapter
* Looking at pop-ups and pull tabs
* Going artistic with paper sculpture
* Creating paper animations
Whoever came up with the idea of construction paper had the right idea: Paper makes
a great building material - you can easily fold, bend, tear, and cut it, and sticking
the parts together requires nothing more than a bit of glue. In elementary school, you may
have been a bit haphazard about putting stuff together. Now that you're (somewhat) grown
up, you don't have to be any less creative, but you can do a lot more with paper when you
play engineer and plan ahead.
Paper engineering basically means cutting and creating shapes with paper or card. With
paper engineering, you can make pop-up and moving cards, and you can create elegant
and sophisticated sculptures using interesting 3D shapes. You can even make fully working
machines that use only paper for their mechanisms.
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