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Introducing myself: William Gozali, an origami enthusiast from Indonesia.

I always have great interest in origami. Me as a kid would pick random paper, make it square, and fold simple model like fish, duck, or crane. As school responsibilities got heavier, I stopped doing origami.

One day at university's social event, my friend asked if I could do origami. As I was folding a simple model to show that person, I had flashback about the good old days of folding paper. I also remembered watching a Japanese TV show called "TV Champion", which one of the episode featured people folding crazy-complex origami like dragon. Being a computer science student at that time, I began to wonder if there is science behind it.

My question got answered when I discovered the book "Origami Design Secrets: Mathematical Methods for an Ancient Art" from Robert J. Lang. The book was expensive for me, but it was totally worth it and mind-blowing. I started to learn the basic design principles like grafting, molecules, circle packing, and box pleating.

"The Book"
Fast forward to 2015, I went to Indonesian Origami Convention and met great Indonesian designers. They were super kind, and taught me modern design techniques. This made my interest in origami even deeper. It feels to me that origami is perfect mixture of science and art.

Now that I am more confident in origami design, and to do my part of sharing the knowledge, I started this blog. This will contain my experiences in origami. The origami that I will feature in this blog is the one that uses single square uncut paper.
Hopefully new artist can learn something from here.



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