The Papertoy Network!

Give it a name!

Hi Folks,

I have a question for you:

What is the "official" term of the plain picture "the blueprint" in 2D which you have before you cut out and fold the Papertoy?

Are you calling this thing blueprint?

Would it be better to find a special name for it? It seems to me that nothing really exists here...help me i might be wrong!

share your ideas, maybe we invent a new word for that, which everyone uses and which than appears on wikipedia :)

my ideas so far:

flatline, flatsketch, plainfig., 2Dplain, the plain

what do you think? can we make a standard here, something everyone uses as a generl term?

now, you. Go for it.

Slurg.

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Permalink Reply by Mike P on March 21, 2011 at 1:37pm

I always thought it was "Template"

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Permalink Reply by Slurg on March 21, 2011 at 1:54pm

Template means more the whole paper i guess, but not the form itself.

so whats the form you cut out than?

Template is also not specific for this thing, its universal.

you can have website templates, cms templates...
i just thought it would be nice to have something related to the paper, which is just used in that genre after

although template is right.

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Permalink Reply by baykiddead on March 22, 2011 at 11:02am

i see it as a template. wether it's a digital file, something you've printed out, or have cut away from the extra paper. once you put that first fold in it however, it's a toy in progress ;)

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Permalink Reply by Creaturekebab on March 23, 2011 at 5:50am

I've always called them a 'Net'. :) It's what we call them here at work too.

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Permalink Reply by JustUs on April 16, 2011 at 9:04am

I believe most of us call it template. I doubt that there is any official term for it. Or is there?

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Permalink Reply by Methuup da Funky One on April 17, 2011 at 1:03pm

Some of the biggest papertoy designers are Dutch (Sjors Trimbach, 3EyedBear, Matthijs[MCK]Kamstra, Marshall Alexander, Ringo.) so "Bouwplaat" seems appropriate. =)