| Show puzzle of folding paper maps can be solved by just doing the best you can pick up the map by the upper corners and let it hang down in front of you study the creases carefully to determine where it was first folded the horizontal line through the middle looks promising so use that and fold the map once on itself you will now find that some of the convex creases are facing some of the concave creases so evidently it cant go that way open the map and start all over again try the line running perpendicularly through the middle there now better the concave creases lie on the concave creases and the convex creases on the convex creases now fold the map a second time on itself if it seem to fit its because you have folded alone along the wrong crease in which case unfold the map and start all over again perhaps you are trying too hard hold the map as lightly as you can and see if it will not help itself to fold up the way it should go since you have now folded the map several times the wrong way concave creases will begin to look like convex creases and convex creases like concave creases just do the best you can says a writer in the baltimore sun folding the map until it lies before you in a long narrow strip try folding the strip from left to right if that seem correct 1 fold it from right to left lea or maybe I 1 the trouble is that you should fold both from the right and the left end and meet in the middle the map instead of being neat and compact will look like an inflated football well at any rate you have done your best after all why need it be folded as it was at first just take the inflated map press the air out of it with y yc hands and finish the job by sitt on it if you have failed just remember that once a map has been unfolded the odds are 10 to 1 that it will never be folded the way it was before |
