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date: 2021-11-10T00:00:00Z
update: 2024-05-09T00:10:01Z
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Model design by 212moving. Folded by ~mio.
For a great friend, ~abraxas.
Thank you for sharing your time, talents and enthusiasm.
Please watch over the town sometimes.
Try not to laugh too hard at the lopsided haskell shinto temples.
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One idle afternoon, conversation on IRC drifted to paperfolding. abraxas asked if anyone in town did origami. Replied timidly in the affirmative and at his request, showed him a few things previously folded, and got to talking about the kinds of models each of us liked. While town membership is diverse, maybe we were both amazed to find someone who reads the same somewhat obscure magazines, let alone heard of them.
Over the next several months, we would occasionally nudge each other about models in progress, particularly the dogs in a book published by the group SAOC. He was often upbeat, always kind, and bounced easily from one conversation topic to another, genuinely curious about many things.
He declared we should have an origami portal linking to models folded by townies. Although the portal didn't happen (yet), through his and other townies' encouragement, eventually some images apeared on my ~ page.
Were it not for his question that started it all, the images might not have been posted at all. Other people's renders were better, and also didn't know another abraxas who might be interested. After all, there is only one abraxas.
