HydRingRingEa
I believe this is the logical step after folding the HydRingEa: tesselating the pattern.
luckily I once made some notes on how to get a ring of 1+6 dodecagons from a square. so finding out how to fold the grid was not so hard.
of course I still had to fold the pattern afterwards and that was a massive task. in the end the time spent distributed roughly like this:
- 10h for the grid
- 2:30h for the initial collapse (that was a real fun part, by the way)
- 2:30h for additional precreases (e.g. the lowest petals of the hydrangeas)
- 7:30h to form the hydrangeas and for final shaping
rather near the end I really couldn't muster the motivation to go on. that was when the the bigger part of the upper-most hydrangea petals still had to be folded. now, waiting to finish the model wouldn't have been so bad except for the small fact that it was the evening before the german origami convention and I really really wanted this piece to be on display. nevertheless I couldn't be motivated.
at this point my dear friend claudia came to my rescue and spent an extra hour of finishing the upper petals. without her this model still would not be finished. so a BIG BIG thank you to claudia!! :-DD
this was folded from the biggest square of elephant hide I could find, i.e. 70cm. the finished models still is more than 35cm in diameter which poses a bit of a storage problem : )
finding the right paper for this model wasn't easy at all. obviously elephant hide is not your first choice for hydrangea models. it's definitely too thick which means that I even had to precrease the second hydrangea levels to get a clean result. on the other hand I wanted a big sheet of thin, durable, non-translucent paper. I tried kraft paper and it actually worked rather fine. still it the colour flaked a bit at the grid lines.
additionally I made some mistakes during the gridding by adding unnecessary lines which spoiled the final look a bit. not a biggie I thought but in the end I realized that these extra lines would bug me every time I'd look at the finished model. so I finally decided to trash the half-finished model. that really hurt because it meant almost 20h of wasted efforts :-/
HydRingRingEa
I believe this is the logical step after folding the HydRingEa: tesselating the pattern.
luckily I once made some notes on how to get a ring of 1+6 dodecagons from a square. so finding out how to fold the grid was not so hard.
of course I still had to fold the pattern afterwards and that was a massive task. in the end the time spent distributed roughly like this:
- 10h for the grid
- 2:30h for the initial collapse (that was a real fun part, by the way)
- 2:30h for additional precreases (e.g. the lowest petals of the hydrangeas)
- 7:30h to form the hydrangeas and for final shaping
rather near the end I really couldn't muster the motivation to go on. that was when the the bigger part of the upper-most hydrangea petals still had to be folded. now, waiting to finish the model wouldn't have been so bad except for the small fact that it was the evening before the german origami convention and I really really wanted this piece to be on display. nevertheless I couldn't be motivated.
at this point my dear friend claudia came to my rescue and spent an extra hour of finishing the upper petals. without her this model still would not be finished. so a BIG BIG thank you to claudia!! :-DD
this was folded from the biggest square of elephant hide I could find, i.e. 70cm. the finished models still is more than 35cm in diameter which poses a bit of a storage problem : )
finding the right paper for this model wasn't easy at all. obviously elephant hide is not your first choice for hydrangea models. it's definitely too thick which means that I even had to precrease the second hydrangea levels to get a clean result. on the other hand I wanted a big sheet of thin, durable, non-translucent paper. I tried kraft paper and it actually worked rather fine. still it the colour flaked a bit at the grid lines.
additionally I made some mistakes during the gridding by adding unnecessary lines which spoiled the final look a bit. not a biggie I thought but in the end I realized that these extra lines would bug me every time I'd look at the finished model. so I finally decided to trash the half-finished model. that really hurt because it meant almost 20h of wasted efforts :-/