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Little Brother Compass Rose Jar

Little Brother Compass Rose Jar by oschene.
The best place to conserve ideas, of course, is in the mind, but sometimes, you may have occasion to hide ideas from rude, untutored eyes. That is best done by putting them in plain view.

This looks like an origami pencil pot made out of graph paper. Indeed, it is the entire text of Cory Doctorow's Little Brother, turned into 1.7 gazillion microdots with PaperBack, a GPL licensed program. One has only to unfold the model, scan it and reconstitute it into a readable text.

Sequenced crease pattern

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gruntzooki  Pro User  says:

For real?
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oschene  Pro User  says:

Yup -- text shrinks down quite well. 1.7 gazillion may be a slight exaggeration, but there's a bunch of dots, arranged in 2,574 blocks. And there's redundancy built in, to make up for any dots obscured by crease lines.
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lwicks_2000 says:

That's awesome! Have you a template we can all print and fold?
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oschene  Pro User  says:

Try the sequenced crease pattern, linked above.
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gaharoni says:

Excellent. I enjoyed the book, too.
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Frank Meeuwsen  Pro User  says:

I love paper-folding thingies like this :-) And I love the book, so it makes a nice combination. Thanks for the work!
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EricGjerde  Pro User  says:

If anyone was going to combine Cory Doctorow and Origami, it would be you, Philip...
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