Origami Design Secrets: Mathematical Methods for an Ancient Art

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Summary: the summit of the origami mountain
Review: This tome is the pinnacle of origami literature. It puts some of my more serious college textbooks to shame. Origami can now be a subject on equal ground with Calculus, Physics, Linear Algebra, etc. It has a lot of pages with a lot of text. The sheer weight of it will suprise you. It is not for young children or light reading.

Design Secrets starts off very simple and progresses nicely. I guarantee at some point during the book every folder will pass his/her knowledge and be swimming in new information. More advanced folders may skip ahead a few chapters.

The book, despite having a lot of information, is quite readable; Lang did a great job making the language very accesable.

If you are looking for new diagrams buy a different book. If you are looking to become an origami designer buy two copies. There is simply nothing out there that compares with this.