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Life is a Challenge / La Vita è una Sfida
Natural adaptation aims to provide the best performances, even though not for any needs. I was impressed by the posture of this 3D model, that captures the giraffe efforts in reaching the primary...
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Cassini’s Terrestrial Globe / Globo Terrestre di Cassini
Giovanni Maria Cassini (1745 – 1824) was an Italian globe maker, geographer, engraver, and cartographer. His main cartographic work was the Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale of 1792-1801. In...
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Cassini’s Terrestrial and Celestial Globes (Christmas Balls version)
Giovanni Maria Cassini (1745-1824) was regarded as one of the last great Italian globemakers of the 18th century. Here, I present two 15 cm diameter globes in a Christmas ornament version. The larger...
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Santa and his favourite Reindeer (1923 LA Times animated card recolored)
Background: (C)-Zastavki.com In 1922-23, LA Times newspaper offered to its readers a series of animated cards by Dan Rudolf to cutout and assemble. Some years ago (maybe in 2007) I downloaded these...
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Nocturnal Celestial Globe / Globo Celeste Notturno
Petrus Plancius (Pieter Platevoet, 1552-1622) was a famous Flemish cartographer. He included new constellations in the austral celestial emisphere. In 1612, he drew 12 gores for a 14.5 cm...
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DRACULA (Hako version, 2004)
Years ago, paper modellers community was very excited by the so called hako designs, small paper figures mainly made of boxy parts assembled together. There was a bloom of paper hakos, some of them...
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WAP – WARNING! Air Pockets
[25x30x40 cm, 165 parts, about 50Mb] The Mechanism. WAP is a paper automaton whose main mechanism is Redtenbacher`s variation of the Cartwright straight-line mechanism, a twin gear driving a common...
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Celestial Globe from Ignace-Gaston Pardies’ Tables
[diameter of the Celestial Globe: 25 cm] Visit the David Rumsey Map Collection website to admire and download Pardies’ star and constellation maps. Another great website with a lot of information...
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Pardie’s Celestial Globe (Christmas Ball version)
The Christmas Ball version of Pardies’ Celestial Globe is now available! Merry Christmas and a Wonderful 2014!
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The first time the word “America”…
… appeared on Earth. Globe diameter: 12 cm In 1901 Joseph Fisher, a Jesuit historian who was conducting research in in the library of Prince Johannes zu Waldburg- Wolfegg in Wolfegg Castle in...
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PaperPino’s Newsletter
Dear Friends, now you can subscribe to my Newsletter service. Look at the end of the right column and insert your e-mail address. Do not worry, I will not bother with too many news…, my models...
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WAP downscaled to 50%
Herbert (moderator at the German paper modellers forum KARTONBAU.de) downscaled WAP to 50%. He posted three movies and some picture of his work to the German forum. The result is terrific! Consider...
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“Remaking the Heavens” /1
For long time I surfed the web in searching for hi-res digital files representing celestial (and terrestrial) gores by Venetian cartographer Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718). The best I found was a pdf...
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Leonardo’s Anemometer
Within the frame of his studies about the flight, Leonardo designed an instrument for measuring the wind intensity and direction. In the so called “thin sheet anemometer”, the wind intensity is...
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COELUM STELLATUM CHRISTIANUM (1660)
Whilst Kepler was studying the planets motion, his son-in-law Jacob Bartsch, astronomer, Wilhelm Schickard, the astronomer and professor of Oriental languages at Tübingen, and Julius Schiller (c. 1580...
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Coelum Stellatum Christianum (Christmas Ball Ornament)
Merry Christmas Happy 2015 Coelum stellatum Christianum (Christmas Ball Ornament) A new year full of paper to cut, fold and glue!
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Amazing Tissue Paper Stop Motion Animals by Yuki Ariga
Origami + stop motion technique in an amazing video…
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