Amenemheb's garden prototype

This is my copy of Amenemheb's famous garden, one of them, it shows up in a lot of books. I never did care for it much. Never cared fort this way of depicting a garden, there are other examples too, so contrived like this, so mathematical, artificial, evocative of slave labor, two dimensional, and then the other day I studied the details again, the very specific trees and the care that is taken with those and I thought, "I can do that in a pop-up up, I betchya."

The rigid rectangularity of it will not work so well, angles are needed. Concentric boxes can be done, but when closed, two sides of an upright fence will stick out beyond the edges of the card unless they fold inward, and if inward then they jam into one another. It might be possible to have the unattached bands accordion and all loose pairs must do so and that compacts all that material on top of each other, all the trees stacked when folded resulting in an excessively thick card weighted oddly. I've done things like that before.

A peak on the base of the card to elevate a crocodile. Nearly completely flat, It will be pointed straight up when closed.

Two opposing "V" mechanisms exactly the same face each other like yin and yang. It the open position when the card is closed, and close as the card is opened so the viewer gets a peek at the crocodile as it disappears beneath the surface, and the surface closes nearly flat. 

I-beams and L-bars.

Trees to finish. Glued to the uprights fully elaborated to fill the surface. The flatness of the trees will be flat with the upright L-bars. 

It is not possible to create upright "X" but it is possible to arrange the trees as if they continue the line created by the uprights, although glued to another upright going the other direction so that a grid of trees is formed irrespective of the direction they face or the upright they're on. 

As the L-bars are elaborated to the edges of the top surface to fill the surface as far as possible, not far because the height of the trees must fit inside the card when folded so this must remain a short squat card, but layered, each successive layer smaller by its height. Stacked as a step pyramid, or better, a mastaba. 

The L-bars will be connected on top after the trees are added, each upright connect to another spanning as far as they can, and criss-crossing until another layer is formed by strips glued together, thicker than the others, more rigid for its laminated layers and higher than the surface of the water, so the pool, the lake, is sunken.