What have you folded lately?

Cupcake · Post by **Cupcake** » July 19th, 2006, 9:55 pm

I have found things with the search, but I cannot find a diagram

Anyway, I made Charles Esseltine's Dragon (7th) and this time with copper, silver and light brown crayons, shown here:

He looks a bit angry... might need a bit of rust removal

100th post!!!

origamimasterjared · Post by **origamimasterjared** » July 21st, 2006, 6:11 am

rockmanex6 wrote:
origamimasterjared wrote:Okay. You learn to type. Deal?
Okay I wait see a made 1.5

Time to eat your words.

I folded this way back in April, when you posted yours. I was going through pictures I took this year, and found this.

It looks terrible, but that's because it was a stupid idea.

Now that you've seen my Bahamut made from a one inch square, it is time for you to make good on your part of the deal: Learn to type. Reading would also be helpful.

origamimasterjared · Post by **origamimasterjared** » July 21st, 2006, 6:11 am

To make up for cluttering the "What Have You Folded Lately" forum with that old piece of trash, here's something I made in the last couple weeks, the UC Santa Cruz mascot, the banana slug. (I don't go there, but I created it to give to my friend who does and hates the mascot

)

I drew this in Illustrator, which I've never used before, but since this computer doesn't have a working copy of Freehand (mine's being repaired),I tried it out, so it's a bit messy.

Turns out I missed a crease on the right side.

phil · Post by **phil** » July 21st, 2006, 6:17 am

Panther Masks by HOJYO Takashi and Michael G. LaFosse.

Fish Objects by HOJYO Takashi.

4sigma · Post by **4sigma** » July 21st, 2006, 9:39 am

Robert Lang's Koi with (almost) all the scales. (Lang's book shows 30X30, mine has 26X26.)
Paper is 45 cm X 45 cm, "mulberry paper" tissue foil

[img]http://xs303.xs.to/xs303/06295/P1020346M.JPG[/img]
[img]http://xs203.xs.to/xs203/06295/KoiM.JPG[/img]

eric_son · Post by **eric_son** » July 21st, 2006, 12:07 pm

Beautiful KOI!

Espectially the first picture... it looks so real.
How long did it take you to fold?

~folder~of~paper~ · Post by **~folder~of~paper~** » July 21st, 2006, 12:50 pm

A variation of Modular Cube By Lewis Simon.

I was bored in rolecall at school this morning so I folded one, to the sheer amazement of my friend. It's kinda funny 'cause it's so easy!

Yaroslav · Post by **Yaroslav** » July 21st, 2006, 4:28 pm

Modification Double Heart by Francis M.Y. Ow

4sigma · Post by **4sigma** » July 21st, 2006, 5:29 pm

eric_son wrote:Beautiful KOI!

Espectially the first picture... it looks so real.
How long did it take you to fold?

Thanks!

The scales took a long time.

Just folding the initial pleats took about an hour and a half. Folding all the scales took maybe 5 hours. It would have taken longer but frankly I only made sure that the exterior folds are "on the creases" -- several of them are a bit scrunched on the creases that aren't visible from the outside. Don't tell anyone, OK?

Once the scales were done, folding the Koi itself took maybe 20 minutes. So about 7 hours total, I think.

Again, I only folded 26 pleats of creases instead of 30. That doesn't sound like a big difference, perhaps. But it means 676 scales instead of 900, so this cuts down the scale-folding time by about 25%. Each individual scale is about 25% larger too, which makes them easier to manipulate.

Cupcake · Post by **Cupcake** » July 21st, 2006, 11:16 pm

Umm, could someone please tell me the size of the worlds smallest paper crane? Because I just made a really small one...

Who knows?

As you can see, it's 8 millimetres long... took me forever!

Aznman · Post by **Aznman** » July 21st, 2006, 11:24 pm

Umm... unfortunantly for you, no.

Anna (origami8) has made on out of 4 mm paper. I have also. the finished crane is really small, maybe one and 1.5 or less from head to tail.... or what looks like the tail... but good attempt.
Here is the topic

Cupcake · Post by **Cupcake** » July 21st, 2006, 11:29 pm

Well, I try

. I might suceed some day... I had a feeling it wasn't the smallest thing... but it's a big leap for me!

~folder~of~paper~ · Post by **~folder~of~paper~** » July 22nd, 2006, 3:49 am

It's still pretty small. My attempts at mini cranes don't go much further than a 1cm square, but maybe it's just I work better at a large scale. Has anyone used 1m squares lately?

Post by **origami_8** » July 22nd, 2006, 6:45 am

I remember having read somewhere that the smallest crane was folded from a surgeon with a needle under a microscope from 1mm paper. I wonder where he got thin enough paper to make it possible because for my 4mm crane the tissue paper I took used to become very thick and hard to fold.

Aznman · Post by **Aznman** » July 22nd, 2006, 8:20 pm

Crooked George. Designed by ? Found Here

Very small crane... My camera could not focus on it very well, so it is Really blurry

Devil, Jun Maekawa

Dama, Mario Adrados Netto

Rat (small), Eric Josel

E-mail, Sy Chen (a funny model)

Pharo, Robert Lang. Folded with kami *yuck*