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Origami: Melina Hermsen (Nymphaea Variation)
Fotograf: www.yulaphotography.de
Stylistin: www.paulacassara.com
Makeup und Haare: www.famous-face-academy.com
Explored!
30 units
Designer: Francesco Mancini
Folder: Francesco Mancini
Paper: Kami
Unit size: 1:sqrt2
The same idea as in the previous one, but I like these proportions more (it has more relief).
The borders are folded, but indeed you can unfold them and proceed tiling the surface...
1 sheet, only the borders are cut...
I understood that 'flying daggers' is quite comfortable name for this one. Indeed they're like flying...
Opus T-16.2
TOKYO 2020
Closing ceremony
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Ceremonia de clausura
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My Book is finally, after several years of waiting, completed.
I have a litany of complaints in the final product, but still I would say that it turned out better than I expected. There are a lot of compromises that I'm still not happy about, but I am sure no one else will see most of them.
It should be noted as well, that very much of this book is not of my choosing- The layout, cover, title, model names, models that were included, etc. were not of my choosing.
But regardless, it is at last completed.
I hope to have the time to hammer out the details of the draft of my second book over winter break.
I've first seen this corrugation authored fresh by someone at facebook. I decided that I want to fold it after reverse-engineering. Later I found that I already had the same corrugation in my own favs at flickr! (I think you can find there everything now). And of course I completely forgot about it
;)
Triangular-and-3d
Author: Fredrik W. Owesen
Also discovered here (and here I finally gave it attention ;) www.facebook.com/haassaanhaassaanking/photos/a.5230366712...
Designed&Folded: Nov.-Dec. 2019
*From one uncut square paper, colored with Acrylic Gouache
創作・製作：2019年11-12月
＊不切正方形一枚折り；アクリルガッシュで着色
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 paper I made in John Gerard's papermaking studio - it should be a mixture of abaca an cotton and it's very strong paper, no tears during folding and this is not the easiest model for paper to survive. I am pretty happy with the result.
Original vase and also link to the CP is here. Thanks go to oschene who generously shared CP with us after I asked :)
My table at this year’s Ultimate Origami Convention. You can find here some models I’ve already published online along with some new ones. This was my first time at the Lyon convention and I must say I enjoyed it very much. It was a great opportunity to meet folders from all around the world, including many I previously only knew from their online presence and could now meet in real life. I also enjoyed the workshops and the brick-and-mortar version of Origami Shop, not to mention the many interesting sights of the city of Lyon itself.
Folded with colored paper. The hair style was a little modified, based on historical considerations.
I'm teaching a course in Berlin this July, drawing on the paper folding exercises taught at the Bauhaus by Josef Albers as part of his preliminary course. To that end, I've been reverse-engineering all of the examples I've been able to find from historical documentation. Here's one of them, re-created. I hope my students enjoy this week-long course of paper engineering :)
An origami box featuring the heraldic Maltese Cross. The molecule is a slight variation of the one used in Cross Pattee Tessellation. Just as the tessellation, the box also uses my Flagstone Paneling technique in order to achieve a completely clean space around the molecule.
30 units, no cuts, no glue.
Test fold for Meenkshi Mukerji.
Meenakshi Mukerji's website : www.origamee.net
You know I'm sort of mad on spirals over the last time. I search new forms, that can be folded with spirals... When I did this (flic.kr/p/rTyvqK), Daniel Kwan shown me his version of curved Spidrons flic.kr/p/59BHdi. I tried it. And to say the truth I didn't much like this exact form, because it hardly collapses. It's not about the paper that rips, it's about the geometry. So I made my own version of this 'symmetry' with my curves. Here's one of the examples, there are many possible. My version is fully collapsible.
One sheet of Tant paper, about 14cm in diameter when unfolded and 5 cm when collapsed. Very playable model.
PS. I need a name for this kind of stuff! Something with 'Tri' would be awesome
Rock crystal
Designer: Ekaterina Lukasheva
Created:
Folder: Ekaterina Lukasheva
Parts: 12
Paper's size : 1:2
Paper: gold backed cartboard, rather thick
Joined with : nothing (if you have thinner paper you may require glue for 12-unit version)
This is one molecule of sunflower tessellation and the easy modification of it (which is also tessellatable).
Sunflower corrugation flic.kr/p/xU8PEq
1 uncut hexagon for each star.
tant paper
designed by me (though the model is very easy to expect that someone could do the same)
And the last from the serie, dahlia with only 8 petals with extra level in the middle. From an octagon of kami, 25 cm. Difficult to fold.
This flower was designed for designing challenge for Italian convention in last November. Usually it's hard fom me to participate in those as I am really not good in creating something figurative. But last year the theme was "bronze rectangle", which gave chance basically to everybody to try create something. This model is extremely simple and the idea behind it is so basic that it can be translated to many more rectangles (which I realized only a bit later ;), but I made it for bronze rectangles first. Since then I made some more variations, and found a way how to make the center of the flower more interesting or more to my liking and that's what you can see here :)
Made from 6 bronze rectangles.
Designed by Masahiro Ichikawa
As taught by Jo Nakashima
Folded from a sheet of Canson Artist Series Pure White Drawing paper.
Painted with dye extracted from red rose petals and backcoated with methyl cellulose, then cut to a 24cm square.
Explored!
30 units
Designer: Gianna Alice
Folder: Francesco Mancini
Paper: Elephant hide
Unit Size: 1:sqrt2
Diagrams: Henkei
NOTE: I'm particularly happy with this unit because it's the first time I do not use an Ow joint. And yes it can be done without the internal creases
NOTE: I recently discovered that the model was already designed and published by Gianna Alice
This is a no-name thing, 12 units from squares, no glue.
It's probably assemble-able to 30 units(even maybe without glue), but it looses it's beauty somehow. Just too much details.
This one is glued. In theory it could be assemble without, but when you try to add the last unit, you simply can't make it stand in place and during your attempts you break the whole structure.
Explored!
5 units
Designer: Francesco Mancini
Folder: Francesco Mancini
Paper: Duo-kami
Unit size: 1.sqrt2
Designed on the plane to Paris
I've wanted to design a Stegosaurus for a while now, and even made a few attempts at it that didn't work out.
I dusted off the idea last month and, this time, things just fell into place. I scrapped my previous attempts and used my Pureland Stegosaurus as a jumping off point instead. You can still see that model embedded in the core of this one.
I also designed a simplified version that only has the six larger plates on its back.
I’ve been doing lots of origami lately, but very little folding. Between cataloging and reverse-engineering Shuzo Fujimoto’s designs, diagramming my own models, preparing and giving workshops, writing blog posts, and managing the ever-increasing pile of prototypes,
I find it hard to find time for actually folding my designs much. Fujimoto’s recent death anniversary reminded me that the year he died, 2015, was also the year I got into tessellations and when my origami design skills really took off.
So, I’ve been seriously engaged in origami for the last seven years (and on and off for thirty), and notice how much the notion of “doing origami” has changed for me over time. This should come as no surprise as the same has happened in my professional life: with growing experience, I’ve been spending more and more time planning and managing other peoples’ work, finding out what needs to be done, and teaching, rather than just doing stuff.
Is that a bad thing? Not necessarily. I choose what I want to work on, especially when it comes to origami which is just a hobby and exerts no pressure on me other than my own ambition. Many of the things I’ve been doing recently, I would simply not have been able to do a few years ago. Spending an additional hour on documenting Fujimoto’s legacy or ranting about origami classification are, I believe, more impactful than pre-creasing yet another grid.
Since time is always scarce, and the number of ideas for origami models I have doesn’t get any smaller, getting more involved in origami other than folding has forced me to become more deliberate about choosing which designs I do fold and which end up in the prototype pile. Reality is, I’m now able to make neat folds of maybe a few percent of my designs. I’m still not completely satisfied with the criteria of choice I apply in practice. In theory, I would prefer to fold just the best designs. In practice, quite often I find I have just a bit of time, and decide to fold something quick and undemanding rather than work on the more ambitious projects. Such lack of discipline is not necessarily bad, though, since my initial judgement of a design is not always consistent with what I think of it once it’s finished or with how others perceive it. Once in a while I fold something I thought would be great, only to find it much less satisfying than expected once it’s ready. On the other hand, some underappreciated ideas end up surprisingly good once executed. Allowing myself this kind of exploration by trial and error helps me stay humble and keeps the process fun.
I’m wondering whether other origami designers’ experiences are similar? Do you also find yourself doing other things than you used to? Origami is an interesting field since it has both an artistic and an engineering component to it. My hunch is the engineering element is much more prone to shifting creators’ priorities over time, e.g. moving more towards teaching others, while the artistic component probably changes less since it’s grounded more in working with your own hands. If you’d like to share your own experiences, please feel free to comment below. I’d also be very interested to hear not only from origamists, but also people active in other fields which combine art and engineering.
The image shows me pre-creasing Ridges Corrugation (32×32) in early 2018.
Original blog post with clickable links: origami.kosmulski.org/blog/2022-08-07-growing-up-origamist
I've wanted to design a Stegosaurus for a while now, and even made a few attempts at it that didn't work out.
I dusted off the idea last month and, this time, things just fell into place. I scrapped my previous attempts and used my Pureland Stegosaurus as a jumping off point instead. You can still see that model embedded in the core of this one.
I also designed a slightly more complicated version that has three additional small plates, in order to make the model look more accurate.
"Square tessellation of dodecagons #2" (extended version, detail)
design: Alessandro Beber, Jun. 2012
Folded: 2017
paper: one uncut 60 cm square of glassine paper
instructions (CP): "Fold, Twist, Repeat" (Alessandro Beber, CDO, 2013)
This model uses an improved version of my Broken Heart Molecule. I call this version simply Heart Tessellaton / Molecule. Improvements include: better proportions, not only the molecule but also its crease pattern being square, and a convenient grid size: the heart itself uses a 14×14 grid, so a 16×16 grid results in the heart surrounded by one grid unit of margin. By adding another 8 grid units for the frame, we end up with a 24×24 grid for the framed heart. This molecule can also be tessellated.
I went crazy with Iimoris again ^-^ All out of the beautiful paper by Julia
Schönhuber. This one is Winter Galaxy purple.
Folded around 6070 till today and I decided to upload them...
once a day.
There are four five different outer shape...
- Iimori Flower
- Iimori Star
- Iimori Astra
- Iimori Anthos
- Iimori Mika
...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.
Same symmetry like here (flic.kr/p/E7Lr7e), but different curve. All the other features are
the same: it's playable, collapsible and funny.
1 sheet of tant paper
This origami box represents a flower of the genus Houstonia, also known as bluets or Quaker Ladies. Some species, in particular Houstonia caerulea have four petals which is relatively rare among flowers. However, it is very convenient for the origamist who wants to fold from a square.
The flower can also be tessellated, with each molecule taking up a 12×12 grid. After designing it, I found a similar model by Ilan Garibi, called Criss Cross Tessellation, but as you see, in my model the center of the flower is locked together while in Ilan’s, both ends of each petal are free.