Downloadable Origami Motorcycles

gse writes "This is too cool. Yamaha has a series of very realistic origami motorcycles, freely downloadable from their website. There's also a cool little article on how the models are made. I knew the office dyesub would come in handy someday!"

Excellent...

[acehole]

I'm a black belt in origami.

not really origami

[dakkar]

"origami" means something like "folded paper". The Yamaha models are made by cutting and pasting paper, not folding. So they're not origami.

They're cool nonetheless...

Re:not really origami

[breman]

Maybe they should change the name of the art to "Yamagami" so no ones confused or insulted. hehe

Re:not really origami

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, the yamaha site doesn't even call it origami, either. It clearly says "REALISTIC PAPER CRAFT".

Re:not really origami - but this is!

[Anonymous Coward]

http://home.earthlink.net/~fredwarning/moto.htm

Re:not really origami

[bkhl]

To clarify, that's a /. error. There is no claim to origami on the actual web site.

Re:not really origami

[Bazzargh]

kirigami [reference.com].

Re:not really origami

[AndroidCat]

What, you mean that they're just a bunch of hackers?

Re:not really origami

[nazsco]

"origami" means something like "folded paper". The Yamaha models are made by cutting and pasting paper, not folding. So they're not origami.

yep, this is, uh... how do you say "back of cereal box" in japanese?

Too bad

[Poilobo]

My mom won't let me use scissors.

Re:Too bad

[Lobsang]

My mom won't let me use scissors.

I think she will. Just don't run with them...
And PS: do not jump on your bed either...

Already /.ed with only 4 posts?

[News for nerds]

wow. what a heavy origami.

May jebus have mercy on them all

[Bon bons]

I can only start to imagine the amount of paper cuts recieved in creating one of those bikes.

Re:May jebus have mercy on them all

[tgibbs]

I can only start to imagine the amount of paper cuts recieved in creating one of those bikes.

So didn't your parents ever warn you that motorcycles are dangerous?

Forget motorcycles!

[userloser]

Forget motorcycles! I want to make my own origami 'Setsuban'! http://www.yamaha-motor.co.jp/eng/papercraft/seaso ns/index.html

Easy Folder

[MountainMan101]

...Born To Be Mild

Origami Webserver

[Anonymous Coward]

folded :-)

no better way to piss off a teenage boy

[circletimessquare]

on christmas morning:

"do you want to see your new yamaha motorbike?"

"really!?"

"yes, and it's origami to boot! see? isn't that amazing!"

(child commits suicide)

Re:no better way to piss off a teenage boy

[floydigus]

Dickhead motorcyclists 0, Rest of the World 1

Re:no better way to piss off a teenage boy

[krist0]

wouldn't it be more appropriate for the child to commit seppuku....

Re:no better way to piss off a teenage boy

[donscarletti]

Yes, it would be more appropriate to commit seppuku opposed to having the child commit the many traffic violations that are possible with a non-paper motorbike.

One can make sure the child does not commit either if one makes sure that the child unwraps his "motorbike" before he unwraps his new katana.

Re:no better way to piss off a teenage boy

[Lord_Dweomer]

"Yes, it would be more appropriate to commit seppuku opposed to having the child commit the many traffic violations that are possible with a non-paper motorbike."

I really hope you didn't mean this seriously. I can't stand when someone throws out a line like this. "Oh, but the child will get in trouble if he has this...." Obviously some will, some won't. The same as if the kid had a car. Granted, a motorcycle is more dangerous than a car to operate, but some kids can handle it, some can't. It's up to

Re:no better way to piss off a teenage boy

[metlin]

Isn't Hara Kiri the self-suicide ritual, commited either not to be dishonoured or after a dishonour?

Re:no better way to piss off a teenage boy

[visgoth]

Hara Kiri is just the "vulgar" term for Seppuku. Literally translated, hara belly + kiri cutting. Here's a howto guide on how to commit seppuku with a frisbee [msu.edu].

Re:no better way to piss off a teenage boy

[line.at.infinity]

Seppuku means the same thing, but with Chinese morphemes (but not necessarily from China). setsu = belly, fuku = stomach. They're synonyms. I can't think of a seppuku/harakiri in history that wasn't done by a direct or indirect order. For example, during the battle of Okinawa, many civilians committed suicide when the allied forces were invading because their education told them that death was preferable over becoming a POW.

honda models ^^

[Tsepesh]

These have been on Yamahas website for over a year now at least, Ive been waiting for Honda to follow suit ^^ specifically, one modeled after my 2001 CBR F4i peace

Re:honda models ^^

[REBloomfield]

I bought a plastic kit from Tamiya. They're aren't quite the right model, but you can tailor them to look like yours quite easily. Mines an '87 Hurricane.

Re:honda models ^^

[hvm]

Longer even, I think about three or four years. They keep adding new models every now and then. Don't forget the R1 maintenance kit!

Re:honda models ^^

[FRiC]

The Yamaha papercraft site has been around for years, and I've been making these models ever since the first was up. Strangely, I was about to google for the Yamaha site a moment ago to see if they've put up any new models recently, and in my other window I see this /. article.

Way more than a year.

[carndearg]

As far as I know these have been up for way more than just a year. They certainly did the rounds on a motorcycle mailing list I'm on a few years ago.

At the time I remember quite a few list members downloaded and tried them but quite a few very shaky paper R1s went to the breakers because these kits are not paper modelling for the beginner or the faint hearted.

Still, topmarks to Yamaha for doing such a cool thing!

Re:honda models ^^

[rworne]

Honda does make models:

Honda Origami Here [honda.co.jp]
and here [honda.co.jp]

No motorcycles from hat I can find.

Re:honda models ^^

[rworne]

Found more stuff:

Nissan Cars [nissan.co.jp]
Canon's Wacky Stuff [canon.co.jp]
JR's Bullet Trains [westjr.co.jp]
Here's the Ultimate:
Build your own IBM Thinkpad [ibm.com]

lol..

[REBloomfield]

This is only cool because I'll never own a real V-Max. *sniff* My mate convinced my other half there really dangerous (in the cool way), and now she thinks I'll kill myself. So I have to stick to the CBR....

Re:lol..

[G-funk]

Bah, just get your balls out of her purse when she's not looking and buy one, tell her it's something else... Besides, coming off a 250 at 100 ks an hour will kill you just as dead as coming off a 600 or a 1300 at 100 ks an hour.

Re:lol..

[morganjharvey]

My mate convinced my other half there really dangerous

Oh, on the contrary. The bikes themselves are perfectly safe.

It's the sudden and abrasive stop that you come to when performing an "emergency exit" that's the dangerous part. ;)

Re:Donorcycles

[FCAdcock]

Actually, no. They don't. Most people don't have enough usable organs left to donate after a good wreck. But the local gravestone maker in town loves seeing sports bikes driving down the road... He calles them future customers.

BMW paper cars

[geirt]

Something to do in the Christmas holiday: BMW paper cars [bmw.co.th]

Re:BMW paper cars

[Wwolmack]

This kind of paper artwork is somewhat popular in Japan.
Basically, if you can make or get a 3d model of something, assembling a paper model if it isn't that hard to do. There's even software [e-cardmodel.com] for this.

Check out their gallery [e-cardmodel.com] for more examples.

There are also models of starships from Homeworld, Babylon 5, Star Wars and Star Trek here [tengun.net].

Of course, paper models by no means are limited to static sculptures. My girlfriend got me one of these [www.zuko.to] and it was remarkably simple to assemble, yet very impressive.
Ver

Re:BMW paper cars

[Cthefuture]

That stuff is interesting.

I really wish they used vector formats instead of Jpeg's though (SVG anyone?). Then you could scale them as needed without messing them up.

Sodipodi [sodipodi.com]
Inkscape [inkscape.org]
Sketch [sourceforge.net]

What the hell?

[Anonymous Coward]

First we have a IE patch, that's not really a patch.

Then we have a Linux-compatible music store, that doesn't actually work with Linux.

Now we get oragami that's not even oragami!

Re:What the hell?

[Anonymous Coward]

And we have a server, that isn't even serving!

Re:What the hell?

[the uNF cola]

oragami that's not oragami...
patches not patching..
servers not serving...

5 golden rings!

Re:What the hell?

[Wolfrider]

(sings)

"Four calling modems,
Three French dressings,
Two Yamahas,
And a Slash-dotting for your ser-ver to-day!"

Re:What the hell?

[martin-boundary]

I predict that soon we'll get a new Slashdot story, that's not even a new Slashdot story (dupe).

it's origami! ...

[joda]

not oragami.
ori means to fold, and gami is the sounded variant of kami which means paper.

oragami could be some surname or something, but heck, i dunno.

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Re:If you're interested in this sort of thing...

[LMariachi]

Also Fiddler's Green [fiddlersgreen.net] has some freely downloadable models.

Yamaha motors?

[xintegerx]

An uninformed reader will think it's weird that a computer peripheral (speaker) company also makes vehicles.

More-informed slashdot readers will know better--they are still trying to get over that Hundai is allowed to make cars.

Re:Yamaha motors?

[REBloomfield]

The current Hyundai Coupe in GB is an *amazing* car. Goes like a b*stard, has a wonderful gear shift, and the air con rocks as well, although it does drink a lot juice, and trying to overtake with full air con blowing is quite interesting. They're damn expensive though....

Re:Yamaha motors?

[carndearg]

Funny that, I always thought Yamaha were a manufacturer of reed organs who diversified into other products including motorcycles and computer speakers.
Mind you, there are some of us who view a motorcycle exhaust [micron-exhaust.com] as a musical instrument in itself.

Re:Yamaha motors?

[PhillC]

Or for a deeper bass try SIL end cans [kapital-sales.co.uk].

Excuse the chicken strips on the tyres but I'd just bought the bike. Those, and the shitty Bridgestone tyres, are now gone.

Re:Yamaha motors?

[carndearg]

Or for a deeper bass try SIL end cans.

Mp3! Mp3!
It is surprising how few decent bike exhaust samples there are on the www, the Micron page was about all I could find. Mind you, who am I to talk, my XTZ750 still has the original and rather quiet can.

Re:Yamaha motors?

[carndearg]

http://www.ducati.com/docs_eng/photogallery_races/ images/djhtml/02ddc/dr_sound.htm

Like it:)
Why didnt I think of looking on a bike manufacturer's site?

You're UK based by the looks of your URL, have you ever come across the Ixion [ixion.org.uk] motorcycle mailing list?

Re:Yamaha motors?

[Wolfrider]

--I love the fact that the logo on a V-Max's false "gas tank" is the stylized triple-tuning-fork. May it never change.

Actually, there were originally a musical instru-

[anti-NAT]

ment company.

Their logo is three tuning forks.

I'm a proud owner of a Yamaha YAS-62 Alto Saxophone.

Re:Actually, there were originally a musical instr

[Gordonjcp]

I have a couple of Yamaha synths, and a Yamaha electro-acoustic guitar. I would love one of their saxophones (but I can't play). Their cheap and shitty saxes knock even decent Western-made instruments into a cocked hat, and their good ones - wonderful.

Re:Actually, there were originally a musical instr

[Mark Hood]

I have a Yamaha YCL-26 Clarinet which I ought to play more often :)

For those who don't understand this joke

[xintegerx]

1) Hundai is the largest manufacturer of commercial boats that deliver our Yahama speakers from China.

2) Hundai makes crap cars (by definition of 'cheap', I don't really know how they really are.)

Enjoy the joke,

xintegerx

Re:For those who don't understand this joke

[Dielectric]

They're cheap, but they certainly aren't crap. My wife drives the begeezus out of her Tiburon, and it's very reliable. Not particularly powerful, but it will scoot when prodded. We're looking at another car, and so far Hyundai is giving the best fit, finish, and size for the dollar, IMO.

Re:Yamaha motors?

[Yottabyte84]

What's with the link?

Like nokia

[rebelcool]

Best known for cell phones, they were originally a paper company and are still a rubber snowboot and tire company.

Hmmmmmmmmmm

[The Green Skeleton]

Origami motorcycles = good
Origami webservers = bad
When will they learn....

More paper fun

[FunkyRat]

I've always been fascinated by origami and paper models. Perhaps that's because I am so very bad at both. Anyway, here's some more paper goodness.

• Star Trek paper models [tengun.net]. There's a fantastically detailed Enterprise 1701 (refit) there.
• Origami and Math [paperfolding.com]. My calculus teacher in high school had a whole array (pardon the pun) of paper polyhedra.
• Origami dinosaurs [cs.uu.nl]. I love the paper Tyranosaurus. Now if I only had paper Marshall, Will and Holly's to go with these I could play Origami Land of the Lost!

More Enterprise fun

[dabadab]

And while you are it, there is an Enterprise model [asciipr0n.com] made out of a 3.5" floppy. It's actually fairly easy to do and it's waaaay geeky :)

Re:More Enterprise fun

[FunkyRat]

Heh -- yeah, I saw this one of times it was a Slashdot story. Of course I immediately bent, folded and spindled an old AOL disk. :-) It proudly sits atop my computer, along with my Matchbox Mars Pathfinder rover. I'm always disappointed because visitors to my apartment never recognize either one. :-(

Re:More paper fun

[BitchKapoor]

Here's another one, season-appropriate (for the northern hemisphere): Jack Frost paper art [atlus.co.jp]. This cute little guy is a demon in the Persona video games, and probably some others. He also seems to be a mascot for Atlus software.

Re:More paper fun

[Wolfrider]

--No origami article would be truly complete without mentioning the Origami Boulder Company:

http://www.origamiboulder.com/

--I love this guy's paradigm. :)

Downloadable origami?

[Enoch Root]

Damn! And here I thought I had to upgrade my printer for a 'folding' one... Download, print, fold. Instead I gotta do it all myself?

Re:Downloadable origami?

[Anonymous Coward]

Nah, you've got folders on your harddrive to do this for you.

Good if ...

[R33MSpec]

Good if you REALLY wanna piss off a family member this christmas (i.e brother) after he/she is finished putting the thing together take to it with a zippo lighter and see it disintegrate rather quickly >:)

aaahh christmas brings out the best in me.

Oops...

[g_attrill]

Looks like their website's folded....

Just that sort of thing I was needing for night sh

[Elivs]

I've just started a week of 10hr night shifts and these will be perfect.

Each night I have to be at work from 11pm to 8am, oncall for "emergencies". During this time I'm not that busy, but there is still to much work to sleep. Something like this is just the project I need...

...also I was wondering what to get my wife for xmas, looks like she is getting a Realistic Paper Craft "YZR-R1".

Elivs

Re:Just that sort of thing I was needing for night

[fuzzybunny]

looks like she is getting a Realistic Paper Craft "YZR-R1".

Looks like you are getting "nothing" for the next six months.

Corny.

[captnitro]

I, for one, welcome our new origami motorcycle gang overlords.. oh screw it, I shouldn't have expected to get modded as 'funny' at five in the morning anyway.

More fun with paper

[gpvillamil]

Check out Free Japanese Paper Robots [robo-t.com] as well, you can stage robot vs. motorcycle vs. animal battles!

The Papercraft Elephant's...

[The Grassy Knoll]

... assembly instructions are in a PDF called "elephant-asse.pdf". Just waiting for it to download now. Hope it makes it past the office "naughty filters"...

.

Re:The Papercraft Elephant's...

[CB-in-Tokyo]

"assembly instructions are in a PDF called "elephant-asse.pdf".

Now I know it is Japanese. Still I prefer the Angel Sweet Asse [engrish.com]

Origami is one good thing from Japan...but Engrish is better!

That's not Origami

[PedroKiefer]

In origami you cannot use glue and scissors. If you are looking for origamis try Joseph Wu's Origami Page [vancouver.bc.ca] or Origami.com [origami.com], in those sites you can have a peak in the wonderful world of folding. But those are really nice Paper Craft Models.

No longer.

[Anonymous Coward]

Yamaha has a series of very realistic origami motorcycles, freely downloadable from their website.

They aren't for download anymore.

"I say we take off and nuke the site from Slashdot."

that's too complicate - this origami is easier

[Anonymous Coward]

Build an Origami Boulder [maximonline.com]

An important question...

[JamesP]

Are these motorbikes GPL'd? If I change them do I have to make the changes available?

What if I share these models in Kazaa, will they subpoena me???

Super Mario brothers

[nEoN nOoDlE]

here's [gotorion.com] a link to Super Mario Bros paper templates for you real geeks.

Biker gangs will avoid

[AndroidCat]

After all, everyone knows that biker gangs won't touch Yamaha rice-paper rockets.

perhaps...

[Anonymous Coward]

they made with this software...

http://www.e-cardmodel.com/pepakura-en/

No thanks....

[DeDmeTe]

I'll stick with my origami boulder (You buy wadded up paper NOW!) www.origamiboulder.com

Lets keep it GEEKY and NERDY!!

[curtisk]

Motorcycles?!?! Ha!

How about some nice Sega [hitmaker.co.jp] and Nintendo [gotorion.com] papercraft?!?

News for Nerds...hurpmph!

Not to mention...

[MrScience]

Master Chief [playmore.com] himself!

Re:Not to mention...

[curtisk]

Very nice!

Nice sig, wheres that from, is there still a link?

Re:Not to mention...

[curtisk]

Good reading! Thanks! LOL

It is called card modeling or paper modeling...

[popala]

The idea of paper/card models is not really that new. There is a great selection of card models available for purchase or download. The Yamaha models mentioned in this article are very simple compare to professionally designed and printed models. Virtually anything you ask for is out there. Poland is the leader in this hobby. To get an idea of what I'm talking about take a look at some of these links:
Radom card modeling contest [konradus.com]
Krasnystaw card modeling contest [konradus.com]
Andrzej Halinski: leading publisher of card models [halinski.com.pl]
Card model gallery [modelarstwo.org.pl]
High quality electronically published card models [card-models.net]
More sophisticated models have thousands of parts and are very realistic. A model of USS Saratoga from publisher Fly Model in scale 1:200 has over 3200 parts (that includes couple squadrones of airplanes). Card models are also mostly in large scales (1:33 airplanes, 1:25 vehicles and 1:200 ships) and a whole lot cheaper than plastic models.

"somthing-completely-different dept."

[Stonent1]

From the something-completely-misspelled dept. :)

Ob. Haiku

[BigBadBri]

Origami bikes
Too popular with Slashdot
Server dies again.

More links

[scratchbuild]

Oooh! Be sure to also check out this site: SF Paper Craft Gallery [linkclub.or.jp]. Highlights include:

• Loads of ships from Star Wars
• 4 versions of the Back to the Future Delorean
• The USS Enterprise Constitution Class Refit

Also, check out ALIENS Papercraft [humlak.cz]. Highlights include:

• 1:1 scale Space Marine Pulse Rifle!
• Very nifty lightcycles from Tron 1.0 (look in the "Bonus Models" section)

------"Take off every sig"

Re:More links

[tb3]

The SF Paper Craft Gallery also has models of the drones from Silent Running. I built my own about (gasp!) 25 years ago. And only threw them out recently. *sigh*

Cool, but...

[Thedalek]

Since this is neither remotely new (these models have already been available for the past two years), nor (as has already been pointed out) origami, why is it here being advertised as such?

Re:Cool, but...

[Taurine]

Totally. I think I first came across the Yamaha Cafe site when it was posted to memepool a year ago, and it was of course already well old at the time. Is there karma to be earned from reposting memepool linkage from the archive?

That's Nothing

[tb3]

Check out this: a working paper model of a V-8 engine [yeesjob.com]
And there's a DIY kit, but it's not available at the moment.
Really, there's a paper model of just about anything available somewhere.

Re:Congratulations Yamaha....

[Anonymous Coward]

I wonder what their reaction is?

to fold over (?)

Re:you geeks just discovered this now?

[REBloomfield]

It's all to do with being a technology Prima Donna, and doing dangerous and exciting things, whilst having weird personality disorders. See 'The Dilbert Principle' by Scott Adams.

Re:Dye Sub?

[Alan Partridge]

There's a parallel situation with those old Kodak film scanners that were designed for the high speed production of Photo CDs - by modern standards they're really crappy, but you still see 'em on eBay for 6 times the cost of a Nikon Coolscan V.

Caveat emptor, as ever.