iPhone apps
There is a plethora of iPhone apps available on sale at the iTune store. Noteworthy ones are: - Candy Wrapper Origami: shows you how to fold simple origami models using candy and chocolate wrappers. Total of 12 models with a 3x3 tile puzzle at the end of each model. Tap-n-touch top-motion instructions, with jazzy music. Nice.
- Dollar Bill Origami Star: shows you how to fold a 5-pointed star using dollar bills and bank notes from Canada, China, Europe, Japan, Mexico and USA. Nice modular origami model with slick software making it visually stimulating.
- Money Art: for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad shows you how to make 150+ origami models using US dollar bills. Dollar Bill penguin is free, all other instructions are available from 0.99 to 1.99 each.
Screen Savers
Desktop Images
Origami ClipArt
Origami Fonts
Software for Generating Origami Diagrams
This isn't a gift idea, but it is related to computers, so we list it here: - Doodle: by Jérôme Gout, Xavier Fouchet, Vincent Osele, and volunteers. Uses ASCII code to generate origami diagrams. See samples here.
- ORIPA: by Jun Mitani. Generates crease patterns.
- TreeMaker: by Robert Lang. Generates crease patterns.
- Rigid Origami Simulator by Tomohiro Tachi. Simulates kinematics of rigid origami from .opx or .dxf crease pattern. See samples here and here.
- TESS: by Eric Gjerdi and Alex Bateman. Generates origami tessellation diagrams.
- Interactive Tessellation Display by Robert Lang. An interactive demo that displays a tessellation and its folded form for a "Rings"-type tessellation. You can adjust several controls that affect the crease pattern and then see the results in the folded form in real time.
- Fold A Face by Hans Dybkjær. an interactive computer program which allows you to pick facial features to be folded into a piece of paper. You can choose ears, eyes, mouth, and color for your origami face.
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