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Mermaid
origami tessellation with hexagonal symmetry, one uncut hexagon of tant
paper
no cuts or glue
The other side kusudama.me/#/Nested_spirals/Mermaid-B
I went crazy with Iimoris again ^-^ All out of the beautiful paper by Julia
Schönhuber. This one is Winter Galaxy türkis.
Folded around 60 till today and I decided to upload them... once a day (I
try to manage that ^-^)
There are four different outer shape...
- Iimori Flower
- Iimori Star
- Iimori Astra
- Iimori Anthos
...and 8 different center parts I like to use (A-F, I, M)
A Camelia Center
B Simple Flower
C Double Flower
D Diagonal Star
E Snowflake
F Fun (3D)
I Snowflake Inverse
M Mieko
There are many more variations, but these are my favorites.
A recent fold of my Two-in-One Flower Tessellation (model description at flic.kr/p/Kb2dWr). Even though there is only one kind of molecule in this model, depending on which point you treat as the flower's center, you can see two different kinds of flowers in the pattern.
Model folded from John Gerard's handmade paper (abaca with cotton).
Happy Easter!
Inspired from Wobasute(姨捨) of Noh(能)
designed&folded : Sept. 2014
From an uncut square paper.
＊能楽「姨捨」から着想を得ました
創作・制作：2014年9月
不切正方形一枚折り
Link from the Zelda video-game series. Complete with the Master Sword and the Hylian Shield. I tried to put as much details as possible, with the sword harness and belt pouch, but I still had to simplify the model quite a lot, especially around the collar, belt, and without the details of the shield.
Folded from a 33 x 115 cm sheet of sketch paper.
From a double-sided 16 x 414 cm kraft sheet.
Folded for the JOAS 2014 competition, celebrating the year of the snake (2013). I wanted to experiment on the snake scales, without using the snake-scales pattern. The paper starts from the head, then turns 90° to shape a wing, then the other, and finally turns back of 90° to form the tail.
Quetzalcoatl is an Aztec deity. As a human, he is a wise and benevolent king, who invented the foundations of the Aztec culture. His animal form was the feathered serpent, a chimera between a snake's body and the feathers of the quetzal bird.
This one is about 10 cm in final size, one of the smallest ones I've done, in respect to the complexity :)
I don't like tiny origami, but this one is sooo pretty...
one sheet of tant paper
Energy-L30 (yeah, the names are getting more and more sophisticated :)
Opus T-56
I've cut the borders, though you can expand the same idea around new hexagons. The overall corrugation will tend to be a bit convex, but not much...
Opus T-16.1
This monument to the origami Pajarita advertises EMOZ, one of the few origami museums in the world. Both the monument and the museum are located in Zaragoza, Spain, and we had the opportunity to pay a long visit there during CfC conference. It's great to see such a large collection of models in one place, available all the time and to everyone, rather than just for a short time during a convention. There is a permanent part of the exhibition, dedicated to the history of origami, and a larger temporary exhibition, currently “The expresion of geometry, origami mix of media” by Saadya Sternberg, Ilan Garibi and Ynon Toledano. The monument is made of metal and represents the folded structure of the model quite precisely, but for practical reasons, it is welded from several flat sheets of metal rather than actually folded.
I've just received the copy of Tanteidan 22 convention book. There's a diagram of my Secret Flower model there. With the pictures made by Tanya Turova flic.kr/p/e1MYwT
For those who don't have Tanteidan 22 book, you can find the same diagram in my "Modular Origami Kaleidoscope" book. www.amazon.com/dp/0997311940
Deigned&Folded: Jul. 2020
(A revision of Psyché)
*One uncut square paper, Acrylic gouache
創作・製作：2020年7月
不切正方形一枚折り
アクリルガッシュで着色
Designed&Folded: Nov. 2018
From one uncut square,
Colored with Acrylic Gouache
創作・製作：2018年11月
不切正方形一枚折り
アクリル・ガッシュ
Two Intersecting Tetrahedra
Designer: Multiple Designers
Units: 24
Paper Raio: 1:2
Connection: No Glue
Paper: Kami
Diagram: None
Folded from a 33 x 103 cm uncut sheet of sketch paper.
I originally wanted to do a full cheetah in box-pleating, but I was never satisfied with the lack of details of the head. I then decided to experiment on the head alone, and it proved more of a challenge than expected!
The model is almost fully based on box-pleating. The eyes are inspired by the way Daniel Chang makes the eyes of his masks.
I wanted the model to be viewable from any angle, so a liberal amount of glue has been used to close it up, instead of hiding the locks and leaving a dead view angle.
When I was designing my Stegosaurus stenops, one of the innumerable iterations I created in that process was something like this model. At the time I thought the base was too similar to Ryan MacDonell and John Montroll's Stegosaurus models, and I didn't pursue this version of the model any further. Looking back, it's different enough to warrant dusting it off and giving it a final folding sequence.
To contrast it with my other Stegosaurus model, I've purposefully based this on outdated reconstructions of the creature, with arching backs and dragging tails.
Folded for this month's challenge, "alien life forms".
snkhan.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=13712
If you're familiar with the book Communion by Whitley Strieber (or even just it's very famous cover) you'll no doubt notice that I attempted to emulate the composition and coloration of the dust jacket art. I also ran the image through the Prisma app to give it a more painterly look.
The model is folded from a 7" square of lizard skin embossed paper, using the reverse side of the paper to represent the pale, flesh tone of the face and the shiny, black side to represent the eyes.
Though my depiction of a Visitor strays slightly from the one on the cover, it does so purposefully. I've attempted to to capture a few nuances and associations made in Communion and it's followups (sequels?) that aren't evident from the cover art alone.
The shape of the face and it's features are meant to be evocative of animals such as owls, mantises, and lizards. The texture of the skin is meant to imply wrinkles and age, as well as further reinforce the association with lizards. The shiny, bubble-like texture on the eyes also reinforces associations with the compound eyes of insects.
My new cat design. Modified from the standing version.
Designed and folded by Gen Hagiwara
From 40cm uncut square paper.
A bit modified version of Wobasute (you may pronounce it "Overstay" :-)
'Wobaste' is kind of a ghost story, whose theme is a loneliness in the old age of woman.
The figure is intended to represent the spiritual being that appeared in a deep forest on a mountain on a moonlight night.
The motif:
我がこころ なぐさめかねつ 更級や 姨捨山に照る月を見て
( I cannot suppress my feeling of loneliness
seeing the moon shining over Mt. Wobasute in Sarashina. )
Designed: September 2014.
Folded: February 2015.
From one uncut square paper without gluing.
Designed : March 2021
Folded by me in a square of Elephant Hide paper.
This Rhinoceros shares its base with my Buffalo and Polar Bear.
It's hard with corrugations to choose only one picture to show ;)
This one is the same as here on the right flic.kr/p/Dend9q
one uncut sheet of tant again
Explored!
60 units
Designer: Francesco Mancini
Folder: Francesco Mancini
Paper: Copy
Unit size: 1:sqrt2
This origami mask called 'Moonface', a design by Toyoaki Kawai, is one of my favorites ;-))
Diagrams in the book: "Origami Masks" by Atsuko Kawai.
Less than two weeks are left till the German Origami Convention, so I spent the last evening folding some larger-than-usual models that I will use during my workshops. Can you recognize the model I’m folding (there are hints in the picture)?
While not suitable for normal folding due to its thickness (200 gsm), I used Fabriano Colore paper for these large demonstration models. Folding at this size and from thick paper is even physically demanding, and for such situations I use the tougher bone folder made from bone rather than the teflon one I normally prefer. Unsurprisingly, this paper is pretty stiff, which makes the collapse relatively easy despite the model’s unpractical size. A downside is that at the same time is has poor memory, so arranging the precreased lines into the correct parity before collapsing was harder than with more standard papers. Overall, it’s a good approximation of rigid folding: stiff where it was not creased and moving loosely where creased. Despite the thickness, this paper doesn’t seem strong: even with a relatively simple precrease like this, some crease intersections felt like they could start tearing easily. Anyway, this is not a paper top use for normal models, but for folding a 12-grid-based model from a 50 cm sheet, it was just right, and gave the model the rigidity required to keep its shape at this size.
And if you haven’t had enough folding yet, remember that registration for Plener Origami, where I will be a special guest just as at the German Convention, is still open.
Link: origami.kosmulski.org/blog/2023-05-02-big-models-workshop
Пусть жизнь будет легкой, воздушной, но при этом слегка загадочной!
Zephyr
Designer: Ekaterina Lukasheva
Created: 2015
I had the idea of such a modular for a long time, but finally it came to some very nice-foldable and square-foldable form :)
Folder: Ekaterina Lukasheva
Parts: 30
Paper's size: 7.5 cm
Paper: grimmhobby
Joined with : nothing
Final height: 11 cm
All the origami balls on this picture are indeed the same. The only difference between them is the styling of the loose parts. First you assemble the central one, and then you can style the complete ball to the left or right versions. All you need to do is peel some loose paper and style it! The left one may require pincers to perform, if you're using 7.5 cm or smaller paper. The right one is very easy and fast to make.
The diagrams published in Modular Origami Kaleidoscope book
Unlike original Zipper, this one is not collapsible, you can't force it
more (you surely can do that with Zipper). I've got this one by eliminating rectangles of Zipper to zero
Back side kusudama.me/#/Tesselation/Zipper-0
One uncut sheet of tant paper
The modifications apply easily to this corrugation. By grafting stripes of paper here and there you can modify the proportions of squares or even add new squares.
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Opus T-10
This box is decorated with Whirlwind molecule which can also be used for a tessellation. Its design is closely related to my Woven Triangles family, but I gave it a different name since all Woven Triangles variants are flat while this one is 3D and looks best with curved folds.
Explored!
2, 3, 4 and 5 units
Another variation of d.I.N.O. unit
Designer: Francesco Mancini
Folder: Francesco Mancini
Paper: Foil
Unit size: 1:sqrt2
Designed and folded by me.
Medium: 60x60 cotton paper
Designing this was slow yet easy. Folding this was super long.
Another fish to add to the river monster collection.
Got the idea for the scales from Nakamura's carp. Actually sorta does look like his carp, except the CPs are definitely different.