Cut and Fold Techniques for Pop-Up Designs

Introduction

This chapter shows how to make multiple gutters and multiple generations. The effect of these relatively advanced techniques is to produce pop-ups with numerous intricate facets, which explode the surface of the card into many intricately related fragments. It is also the chapter that completes the set of primary techniques needed to understand how a flat sheet of card can be transformed into a pop-up. There are, of course, many other techniques but they become increasingly complex and esoteric, and perhaps also decreasingly relevant to a pop-up created to hold surface graphics.

This is the most technical of all the chapters and must ...