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Looking for a Castle?

Posted on January 5, 2017 by paperpino

Do you need a castle to be 3D printed or, much better, to be printed on paper, cutout, and assembled? No matter how many towers, walls, crenellated ramparts you need: with Grand Castle Generator, you and your princess (or prince) … Continue reading →

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Game of Thrones Opening from 7,600 Moleskine Paper Pieces

Posted on January 3, 2017 by paperpino

Direction/Set Design/Animation/Post Production DADOMANI Studio Director of Photography: Patrizio Saccò Graphics: Dadomani, Carlo Gazzi Set Building: Dadomani, Linda Vallone Music: Ramin Djawadi Sound Fx: Dadomani Client: Moleskine

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Rudolph

Posted on December 11, 2016 by paperpino

Rudolph is waiting for you! 

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Coronelli’s Celestial paper Globe (Christmas Ornament version)

Posted on December 3, 2016 by paperpino

Vincenzo Coronelli (August 16, 1650 – December 9, 1718) was a Franciscan friar, cosmographer, cartographer, publisher, and encyclopedist known in particular for his atlases and globes. He spent most of his life in Venice. He produced celestial and terrestrial globes … Continue reading →

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Cassini’s Celestial paper Globe on AstroMedia

Posted on September 12, 2016 by paperpino

I’m proud to announce that my project of Cassini’s Celestial paper Globe (Christmas Ball version) has just been published in a nice hard copy version by AstroMedia, specialized in cardboard kits of scientific instruments and models.

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“Remaking the Heavens” /2. Scan, prototype, and the North Pole

Posted on September 4, 2016 by paperpino

Almost two years already passed since I published my first (and last) post on “Remaking the Heavens”. Well, I worked on it, but not enough… The first thing I did was to scan the pages of the “Libro dei Globi”. … Continue reading →

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Functioning ‘mechanical gears’ seen in nature for the first time

Posted on July 27, 2016 by paperpino

Previously believed to be only man-made, a natural example of a functioning gear mechanism has been discovered in a common insect – showing that evolution developed interlocking cogs long before we did. See the research article by M. Burrows and … Continue reading →

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40,000 Years of London’s history made entirely of paper

Posted on May 19, 2016 by paperpino
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Fabergé paper Egg

Posted on March 15, 2016 by paperpino

Note: texture modified from the original by 3DTaxi A Fabergé egg (Russian: Яйца Фаберже́; yaytsa faberzhe) is one of a limited number of jeweled eggs created by Peter Carl Fabergé and his company between 1885 and 1917. The most famous are … Continue reading →

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Giant RRC in Cleveland

Posted on February 9, 2016 by paperpino

Christopher Busta-Peck at the Langston Hughes branch of Cleveland Public Library built this giant version of my Rolling Reels Circus “for the enjoyment of children and adults alike“. Video by Ron English. It is a work in progress – further work … Continue reading →

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