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<\/p>\nMy final project is made out of 780 origami balls strung through 26 LED fairy light strips. All arranged to create an image\u00a0of an ocean wave.\u00a0Once I decided on doing the origami mural for my project, the very first thing I\u00a0had to do was\u00a0decide what image I should create. Playing around in photoshop using a canvas only 30×30 pixels, I\u00a0created this image\u00a0of an ocean wave.<\/p>\n
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I cut down some of the images\u00a0and put\u00a0it all in excel\u00a0to then count how many balls I actually needed to fold and how many for each color. I put a letter in each\u00a0box for each\u00a0color and used control F to find how many there are of one letter, thus helping me find out the number of balls for each color. Then for each column, I counted how many balls I needed in all three colors for one strand of LEDs. To make sure my counting was correct, I added up all the numbers in each column\u00a0and made sure they added up to 30 (because there were 30 lights on each strand). Then to keep track\u00a0of which ones I threaded\u00a0on the LEDs, I made them green in excel. To keep track of\u00a0how many I was folding, I makd a sheet of tally marks for each color.![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d18\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-23-at-10.42.16-AM-720x800.png\")
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Afer folding all 780 balls, I blew\u00a0them up and poked holes on the other ends of the balls so I can string an LED through. I did this by attaching a piece of a thicker wire to the ends of the LEDs and using it almost like threading needle. Doing this I discovered the LED wire was longer than the 30 balls on each strand if they were stacked up on top of each other. To fix\u00a0this problem, I twisted the wire between every single LED to make sure every ball has a light and that they will be side by side. At the ends of each light strip, I bent my threading needle so that it would\u00a0hold all the balls in place. After that, I put up 26 command\u00a0hooks and hung all 26 lights next to each other.<\/p>\n
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I realized they\u00a0were not all aligned\u00a0perfectly at the bottom or at some places\u00a0in the middle even if the very tops were all aligned. So I\u00a0went back to each individual strand and either untwisted some of the wire between the LEDs or twisted it even more. After doing this, I got the exact image I was looking for.<\/p>\n
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I was very scared at first of this not working or not finishing\u00a0on time. Making one ball took about 2 minutes ( 1,560 total, or 26 hours). Then poke holes in each ball and stringing them on one strand of LEDs took 1.5 hours each (for 26 strands~40 hours total). After calculating that, I was worried I would be in a rush making it and there would be no time for any errors. Yet I got help from some friends to help fold and I was able to finish earlier than I planned! I had to thread them all on my own though, but I just went home one weekend to work on them straight and got almost all of them done. I didn’t have too much trouble with this project, just that it took up ALL of my free time.<\/p>\n
Here is a video of how I\u00a0did this whole\u00a0project<\/p>\n