Show HN: FoldMation – An Interactive Origami Learning and Creation Application

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2 years ago

Hi, I've created an application where you can follow step by step origami fold instructions, and a Creator where you can make these interactive folds.

On comparing to video instructions, you have the ability to quickly skip/rewind steps and replay a complicated step many times.

On the creation side, there have been one or two attempts at this before, but those solutions rely on mouse drags as the user interface. This greatly limited the kinds of folds possible. The foldMation Creator uses commands, keywords and values to compose a domain specific language/step and provides a (relatively speaking) easy to use user interface to compose the steps.

For those interested in using the Creator, please go through the tutorial at the top of the create page.

Btw, the DSL for foldMation uses https://github.com/mationai/mation-spec. I created it since I couldn't find anything out there that is similar, allowing me to specify a well structured data with English-like readable syntax.

Let me know what you think?

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