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Four mice from one sheet of 20 x 20 cm kraft paper.
I folded the base for one mouse from the corner of a sheet for the Pied Piper of Hamelin, and did a variation to have mice on all sheets!
"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)
Folded from gold/red (German) wrapping paper ;-)) You can created beautiful forms with this model.
Model: Origami Before the Big Bang
Design by Thoki Yenn
Diagrams in the book 'Extreme Origami' by Kunihiko Kasahara
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.
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.
Designer: Ekaterina Lukasheva
Created: 2013
Folder: Ekaterina Lukasheva
Parts:30
Paper's size : 5 x 14,6 cm
Joined with : nothing
Final height: 11 cm
other views - kusudama.me/#/Spiral/Universe
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
Another approach to the subject of Maltese Cross. The molecule can be tessellated or used on a box as in this picture. This design uses my Flagstone Paneling technique in order to achieve a completely clean space around the molecule.
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
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.
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.
A modification (variant B) of Star Ananke. The basic variant (A) was designed independently by myself and by others before me: Wei Fu, and Robin Glynn (with minor differences).
Explored!
Hilbert's curve iteration 3
Various units
Designer: Francesco Mancini
Folder: Francesco Mancini
Paper: Elephant hide
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_curve
Stay tuned for the 3D version!
Designed by Tomoko Fuse
Every year Origami Usa send diagrams and a sheet of paper to its members, to fold the annual gift, which is distributed to visitors at the lighting ceremony of their Oriigami Holiday Tree This year the model is the mascot monkey by Tomoko Fuse , which is a nice design.
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.
Some light relief on a hot day. I am guessing from the style this is by Yamada Katsuhisa. Does anyone know for sure? I found the pattern in a Japanese magazine and I can't read the name of the author.
Yes, they are still together and in love, a bit older though, but that happens to all of us ;-)) They are still one of my favorite Muppets! So adorable ;-))
While looking at this photo you should hear Moonlight Serenade, played by the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Unfortunately this is not (yet?) possible on Flickr.
I did color change on the arms and legs of Miss Piggy, to make her more "lady-like" and she insisted on putting on her eyes ;-D.
Diagrams origami 'Kermit' :Cartoon Origami 2 - Carlos González Santamaría AKA Halle
Diagrams origami 'Miss Piggy': here
Diagrams origami 'Moon': Papirolandia2 - Fernando Gilgado Gomez
Explored!
30 units each
Designer: Francesco Mancini
Folder: Francesco Mancini
Paper: Copy
Unit size: Rectangle 1:sqrt2
Just playing with size A, surely someone designed one of these before me
I went crazy with Iimoris again ^-^ All out of the beautiful paper by Julia
Schönhuber. This one is Happiness.
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.
Excalibur, the sword in the stone, from Arthurian legends. Origami folded from one sheet (Elephant Hide paper courtesy of Paula Versnick). Also compare my Two Swords model (flic.kr/p/2gSwHQr) which uses the same molecule, though with different shaping.
Designed and folded by me.
Medium: 40x40 single tissue paper. Eyes are color changed.
This is one of the first insect designs in a while - nice change of pace.
What wasn't nice however was my paper choice and the photography process.
But enjoy the floofy moth I guess.
60 units
Designer: Francesco Mancini
Folder: Francesco Mancini
Paper: Copy
Unit size: Rectangle, 1:3.1
Reference: Lang's polypolyhedron #30
I'm not very satisfied by the single color, maybe I'll refold it with the same colors of the 12 stars
Byriah Loper already tried to render this polypolyhedron, it seems to me that his units look different from mine
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.
This model is from a family of simple cone shapes - made from varying numbers of alternating cuts, expanding outwards in rings. Alternating the number of cuts, the distances of them, the space between rings - all makes big changes in the geometry of the final piece. A fascinating family of structures to study!
Two-in-One Flower Tessellation (model description at flic.kr/p/Kb2dWr) folded from John Gerard's handmade paper (abaca with cotton). 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.
This view highlights the uneven border of this sheet, typical for handmade papers. Such a border gives the folded tessellation a distinctive look (in the case of most figurative models, large parts of the paper edge would be hidden). At the same time, it poses a challenge since the edge can not be used as a reference when folding the model. This is not a big issue if you fold the whole grid, but for folding a clean grid-based model without precreasing unnecessarily visible creases, not being able to use the edge when constructing the precrease can make matters much more difficult.
Some years ago Andrew Hudson posted a photo of Hajime Komiya's Dahlia fractalized - with another smaller dahlia in the middle. I tried back then and I tried again last year. It's interesting to see how much it changed - how I approached it differently with some more years of folding in my fingers now and back then :) I found some way how to fold the fractal dahlia in the end, but more importantly I also discovered some new models on the way, and this is the best of them, I think. Folded from 1 dodecagon.
This is one of the easiest models from the latest book. I add easy models to the beginning as a starter ;)
5 units, no glue, 1:√2 paper rectangles.
More about the book: detailed table of contents and the sample pages.
From an hexagon of tecico chocolate
David Martínez designed this beautiful model and dedicated it to the sweet Graciela Vivente.
Photo diagram: www.flickr.com/photos/54601956@N04/8665249821
Muchíssimas gracias por lo compartires, David!!
Another origami mask, 'Two Monks', by Toyoaki Kawai.
Diagrams in the book: "Origami Masks by Atsuko Kawai.
Folded from a 33 x 168 cm sheet of sketch paper.
Variation on the Doe Head with antlers.
The antlers hold thanks to wet-folding. The paper is very thin, and once dried, holds very solidly.
This origami pink tabby kitten is a variation on an origami tiger published by LPFPuzzle. Youtube folding instructions for the tiger can be found by searching LPFPuzzle tiger. The variation to make this kitten is to fold the tail outward and for the ears, to snip a small diagonal cut in the back of the head by each ear so that they can be folded upward.
The Pink Tabby Kitten paper was drawn by Jacque Lynn Davis and is free to download and fold.