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Shuzo Fujimoto’s Hydrangea can be used as a modular unit. The method was first published by Meenakshi Mukerji and then reinvented independently by myself. I plan to publish a tutorial on this subject soon.
The different colors of the different levels of the hydrangeas are a result of using Harmony paper with a radial gradient pattern.
You can compare this model to my older fold and to the Hydrangea Icosahedron which is made in the same way but uses 30 rather than just 6 units.
[Dedicated to CRA (ILYWAMHASAM)]
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I love hydrangea's and grew up with beautiful heritage ones in my yard. Since then, I have never been able to grow them. I saw this one in someone else's garden.
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).
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.
This is a close up of my Hydrangea. It begins as cream with a hint of blue and then turns blue. As it fades, the cream begins to appear again.
Hydrangeas in the small picturesque village of Orta/ Hortensien an einer Häuserwand in dem kleinen malerischen Örtchen Orta.
After I made a Hydrangea Cube, Hydrangea Icosahedron was the next logical step. Just as in the cube, the Hydrangea Tessellation by Shuzo Fujimoto is used as a modular unit. The method of modifying and connecting individual elements was first published by Meenakshi Mukerji but at a later time I came up with the same design independently.
The modified tessellation unit has properties very similar to the Sonobe unit so other, larger assemblies that can be made with Sonobe units can be made with Hydrangeas as well.
This is the head-on view, with pentagonal symmetry of the spiked icosahedron visible.
There are alo other views of this model available:
- backlit view of partial model
- close-up