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What is the historical appeal of football? How diverse are its players, supporters and institutions throughout the world? What are its various traditions and how are these affected by pressures to modernize ? In what ways does the game help to reinforce or overcome social differences and prejudices? How can we understand football's subcultures, especially football hooligan ones? The 1994 World Cup Finals in the United States have again demonstrated the conflicts which exist around football over its international future. The multi-media age beckons new audiences for top-level matches, but worries remain that the historical and cultural appeal of football itself may be the real loser. The global game has a breadth of skills, playing techniques, supporting styles and ruling bodies. These are all subject to local and national traditions of team play and fan display. Modern commercial influences and international cultural links through players and fan styles, are accommodated within the game to an increasing extent. Yet, football's ability to differentiate remains: at local, regional, national and even continental levels. In some cases the game's traditions ensure that these differences are becoming as oppositional today as is modern football hooliganism. But, the overall picture is one of a game without frontiers - rich in historical and cultural detail, pluralistic in its traditions and identities. This volume brings together essays by leading academics and researchers writing on world football. Their studies draw on interdisciplinary researches in England, Scotland, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Argentina and Australia. The book will be of interest to students of sports science, cultural studies and social science and to all those who simply enjoy football as the world's greatest sporting passion.
List of contents
Origami History, Art, and Design: History of Origami in the East and the West before InterfusionDeictic Properties of Origami Technical Terms and Translatability. Betsy Ross Revisited: General Fold and One-Cut Regular and Star Polygons. Reconstructing David Huffman's Legacy in Curved-Crease Folding. Simulation of Nonzero Gaussian Curvature in Origami by Curved-Crease Couplets. Compression and Rotational Limitations of Curved Corrugations. Polygon Symmetry Systems. New Collaboration on Modular Origami and LED. Using the Snapology Technique to Teach Convex Polyhedra. A Systematic Approach to Twirl Design. Oribotics: The Future Unfolds. Origami in Education: Origametria and the van Hiele Theory of Teaching Geometry. Student-Teachers Introduce Origami in Kindergarten and Primary Schools. Narratives of Success: Teaching Origami in Low-Income Urban Communities. Origami and Spatial Thinking of College-Age Students. Close Observation and Reverse Engineering of Origami Models. Origami and Learning Mathematics. Hands-On Geometry with Origami. .My Favorite Origamics Lessons on the Volume of Solids. Origami Science, Engineering, and Technology: Rigid-Foldable Thick Origami. Folding a Patterned Cylinder by Rigid Origami. The Origami Crash Box. Origami Folding: A Structural Engineering Approach. Designing Technical Tessellations. A Simulator for Origami-Inspired Self-Reconfigurable Robots. A CAD System for Diagramming Origami with Prediction of Folding Processes. Development of an Intuitive Algorithm for Diagramming and 3D Animated. Hands-Free Microscale Origami. Foldable Parylene Origami Sheets Covered with Cells: Toward Applications Mathematics of Origami: Introduction to the Study of Tape Knots. Universal Hinge Patterns for Folding Orthogonal Shapes. A General Method of Drawing Biplanar Crease Patterns. A Design Method for Axisymmetric Curved Origami with Triangular Prism Protrusions. Folding Any Orthogonal Maze. Every Spider Web Has a Simple Flat
Summary
Origami5 continues in the excellent tradition of its four previous incarnations, documenting work presented at an extraordinary series of meetings that explored the connections between origami, mathematics, science, technology, education, and other academic fields.
The fifth such meeting, 5OSME (July 13-17, 2010, Singapore Management University) followed the precedent previous meetings to explore the interdisciplinary connections between origami and the real world. This book begins with a section on origami history, art, and design. It is followed by sections on origami in education and origami science, engineering, and technology, and culminates with a section on origami mathematics the pairing that inspired the original meeting.
Within this one volume, you will find a broad selection of historical information, artists descriptions of their processes, various perspectives and approaches to the use of origami in education, mathematical tools for origami design, applications of folding in engineering and technology, as well as original and cutting-edge research on the mathematical underpinnings of origami.
