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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
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
Two Intersecting Tetrahedra
Designer: Multiple Designers
Units: 24
Paper Raio: 1:2
Connection: No Glue
Paper: Kami
Diagram: None
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
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
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
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 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.
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.
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.
This origami mask called 'Moonface', a design by Toyoaki Kawai, is one of my favorites ;-))
Diagrams in the book: "Origami Masks" by Atsuko Kawai.
Mini flowers in mini bouquets for a few friends. Each bouquet is 10 cm high.
Flowers used (left to right):
- Hyacinth (Joost Langeveld).
- Ivy leaf (Lisa Nguyen Quang Do).
- Variation on the traditional lily.
- Munich orchid (Michael LaFosse).
- Kawasaki rose (full bloom).
- Variation on the traditional lily.
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
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
Folded from a 33 x 66 cm sheet of sketch paper.
I never noticed that before folding this piece, but does really have huge ears!
Similarly to its companion piece, the Cheetah Head, this model is based on box-pleating, except for the eyes. Glue has also been used to close up the model on the sides.
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.
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
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
Same as those on previous picture but having more repetitions of the same pattern... Not as effective as flower tower, as here next level is less than half, thus it's eating more paper. Folded from 30 cm of kami. The last level I opted not to try to finish it completely as it wasn't enough precise for that. The finish on the center is the same as on violet doodle... :)
Designed and folded by me.
Medium: 26x26 cm^2 calligraphy paper backed with tissue paper
My Archerfish's smaller yet more intensively color-changed cousin.
Color change was pretty whack, but at least I sorta nailed it.
Wonder how the CP will look like.
A wise woman once said to me: “There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots; the other, wings.”
~ Hodding Carter, Where Main Street Meets the River (Rinehart)
Origami & Photography related info :
Paper : Goatskin, 93gsm, 33x33cm. It's been a while since I last folded this dove. Trying to recall how I used to render it. Getting close. Ron's original design is kind of flattish while this rendition is rather 3D.
Photo shot with main (natural) light source streaming in from a big window on the left.
Will probably revisit, both the fold and the photography.
This is one of Fujimoto’s _translucent designs_, a name he used for many of his tessellations. Folded from rare blue Elephant Hide paper, this work is not very much translucent, but on the other hand this thick paper shows the texture of the model well in reflected light.
Front and back feature somewhat different patterns, both involving equilateral triangles. The way I know which side should be considered front and which back is I got my hands on a picture of this design folded by Fujimoto (see below) and since he used duo paper, I assumed front was the color side.
There are no instructions for this model in Fujimoto’s books apart from pictures of finished model in strong back-light and of rather poor quality (Twist Origami I, page 33; Introduction to Creative Playing with Origami, page 163). Fortunately, thanks to Satoko Saito, I also got hold of a picture of another fold by Fujimoto himself, and that one was a color picture, in reflected light, and of much higher quality, making the reverse-engineering much easier. In a way, this design can be viewed as a triangle twist tessellation with modified pleat assignment.
Link: origami.kosmulski.org/models/translucent-design-cfw-58
Folded from two sheets of 22×22cm elephant hide paper painted with acrylic paint
Designed by Hoang Tien Quyet
A simple design with a easy fun folding sequence
Took a lot of time to take the photo and edit it, but I think it turned out great
Designed&Folded: July 2016
From one uncut square paper with acrylic paint (white) and Chinese Ink.
創作・制作：2016年7月
不切正方形一枚折り、アクリル絵具と墨汁で着色
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