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My hydrangeas faded horribly - then this one has changed to its autumn colours & almost returned to its original deep red.
This doesn't always seem to happen but on some of the Hydrangea flowers the little four lobed button in the center of the bloom opens to form a delicate tiny flower. As you can see this is a large magnification, the small inner flower is about 8mm across.
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart ♥. ~ Helen Keller
This is for lovely Shana, hydrangea is her favorite flower.
I used Florabella texture, they are really a treasure created by beautiful and talented Shana =D
{Florabella ~ Milk & Honey 55%, Little Blue Book (cool) 65%, Platinum (cool) 85%}
July 11, 2020
Our "late" summer hydrangeas are coming in now, and the early summer ones are still in bloom. The number of blooms and color is incredible this year. I guess nature put it all together just right this Spring!
Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
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A few people have asked me over time how to fold the Hydrangea Cube or Hydrangea Icosahedron, so I decided to prepare instructions.
Hydrangea, designed by Shuzo Fujimoto, is a popular origami tessellation whose molecule can be tiled or folded as a standalone model. After slight modification, it can also be used as a modular origami unit for folding cubes, icosahedra and other models.
The idea of making a modular out of modified Hydrangeas came from Meenakshi Mukerji in 2008. Simplified instructions were published in her Exquisite Modular Origami II in 2015. I came upon the same idea independently in 2015, and on flickr I was later able to find pictures of the same design from 2011, made by Anna Alekseeva and (with minor differences) by origami00023, who seem to have also come up with this idea independently.
The unit has two flaps and two pockets in the same arrangement as in Sonobe unit. It is equivalent to Sonobe in that anything that can be made with Sonobe units can also be made with Modular Hydrangea Units, e.g. the icosahedron shown to the right. The connection between units is quite strong and finished models are rather sturdy.
Do notice that folding a Hydrangea, even with just a few levels, is much more time-consuming than folding even the most complex Sonobe variant. You need just six Hydrangeas for the cube but thirty for the icosahedron.
This tutorial assumes that you know how to fold a single Hydrangea. You can find a diagram at
www.nickrobinson.info/clients/smithy/hydrangea_john_smith... and a video tutorial at
www.happyfolding.com/instructions-fujimoto-hydrangea
Shuzo Fujimoto’s own instructions can be found in his Folding Origami Hydrangea (おりがみ あじさい折り).