CHENNAI: Kurukshetra 2010 will perhaps set a world record for making the world’s largest dinosaur in origami, the traditional Japanese art of paper folding to create an object or model from one sheet of paper without cutting it.
About 15 students who assisted Himanshu Agarwal – a renowned expert in origami – put together a 90x90 feet diplodocus dinosaur on the Madras Institute of Technology (MIT) campus. The model was built in 15 working hours spread over three days. Himanshu was invited by the Kurukshetra team from Mumbai to hold workshop on origami.
“The dinosaur is 105 feet long from head to tail and 30 feet tall. I know for a fact that Japan has a record for making the tallest spinosaur species of dinosaur.
We want ed to beat that record. We have created an intermediate complex model with 80 creases on a Russian paper that was bought in Mumbai. We got five feet wide rolls of paper and joined them together to make a 90 by 90 square after which we started folding it to create the animal. The students acted as human props to control the movement of paper when it was being folded. This is vital for getting the right shape,” explained Himanshu. Documents on the work of art will now be submitted to the authorities to validate the world record.