Vertical cut popups

Vertical cut popups



I first learned about these from the magazine Omni. The idea is simple, make parallel cuts in only one direction and then fold a piece of paper in half. Only, as you fold the paper fold the strips in different directions. The two big ones are a simple 'binary city' pattern. It's a great pattern, and easy to do, but there are better things to be done with this kind of paper art. The piece in the front is from a book I found back in high school. It makes a little building, very nice.

Here's how:

I have two simple examples to get you started. The left one will make a simple building (two boxes, one on top the other). The right one will make a staircase.




- Take a piece of paper and cut vertical cuts where you see the vertical black lines

- Fold valleys where you see the small red doted lines

- Fold mountains where you see the longer blue dashed lines.