joisel/trollip base?

[foldingpaper]

there is a base i keep noticing being used over and over, and i wonder if there is a name for it. it is used for quentin trollip's chimp and border collie from origami sequence, and there are a few variations of it in the book. it is also the base for joisel's rat and i believe a variation of it for his cat (if i remember correctly...it's been a while). i've noticed it used by other designers as well, but that's what first comes to mind. just wondering if it's a named base, or derived from a named base. it's a cool base.

[jacoboqc]

Trollip says in his mermaid diagram that he had used some parts of Joisel's rat in the structure. That's normal. He also used Lang's praying mantis base for the teddy bear and the gemsbok. I donn't know any name for that base. It is just one more origami base, that has been used by several designers

[roodborst]

I use the same base on most of my models. Although after some practise and experimenting it has come more complex. I grafted a strip in so I can get more complex shapes, like more face detail, ears, and tail etc. I find it very usefull for alot of animals with 4 legs, head and tail.
Although I never knew it was a commonly used base.

[Joe the white]

Both of those bases seem very John Montroll-like, but I'm not sure of their origin. There was quite a bit of experimentation and development of different bases prior to "modern" computational origami. Blintz bases, basic box-pleating, and off-set bases seemed to be very popular prior to the late 90's-00's when there was a larger movement toward circle packing and applying pleat sinking to flaps on bases rather than just on a square grid, "Origami Insects II" and "Origami Design Secrets" seemed to be a leading cause in this change from my perspective.

In essence, the Rat Base is an off-set frog base, and the Mantis Base (if you mean the one from "Origami Insects and their Kin") is an off-set frog/bird hybrid base (bird base is from the two blintzed edges of the waterbomb formation).