What have you folded lately?

SlyNeko · Post by **SlyNeko** » June 5th, 2009, 3:04 am

Hi spiritofcat....i hope i'm not going too off topic but maybe this is what you are looking for?

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it's a wonderful design!

Jonnycakes · Post by **Jonnycakes** » June 5th, 2009, 3:20 am

Great job Ragnorax! For the head, you can curl the whiskers back (there should be 3 middle points for the head-2 for the whiskers and 1 for the nose) and rabbit-ear the antlers up. It is hard to fold such tiny details and you did a great job with the lower jaw-thank you very much for folding my design!

Ragnorax · Post by **Ragnorax** » June 5th, 2009, 4:49 am

Thank you Jonnycakes

Its a wonderful design, and thanks for helping me along with the little details.

legionzilla · Post by **legionzilla** » June 5th, 2009, 5:52 am

The duck has a very good 3d effect, it is also quite cute.
The Dollar Ryujin is very similar to the original, though you could improve on the head. Jonnycakes would be proud

krt2 · Post by **krt2** » June 5th, 2009, 8:01 am

I just finished a large version of Eric Gjerde's "Aztec Twist", from his Origami Tessellations book. The book only shows a single pattern and I wanted to tessellate it. However, getting multiple patterns to come together was quite a challenge for me. But I worked out a method to allow me to tessellate it. And here it is:

Model: Aztec Twist
Designer: Eric Gjerde
Folder: Kim

Kim

legionzilla · Post by **legionzilla** » June 5th, 2009, 8:29 am

Beautiful tesselation...... looks like a window.
What paper did you use?

Wizmatt · Post by **Wizmatt** » June 5th, 2009, 8:36 am

Amazing tesselation, very well folded!

spiritofcat · Post by **spiritofcat** » June 5th, 2009, 9:26 am

SlyNeko wrote:Hi spiritofcat....i hope i'm not going too off topic but maybe this is what you are looking for?

viewtopic.php?t=3833&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

it's a wonderful design!

Yes! That's the thing! It's such a cool contraption.
I don't think I'd have the patience to fold one though. The ones I had years ago I made from eight dice and a lot of masking tape.

Very nice tessellation, Kim.
They always look so beautiful when backlit.

I folded a couple of tessellations of my own today too:

4 unit version

Same design again but with 16 units

legionzilla · Post by **legionzilla** » June 5th, 2009, 9:50 am

Wow! Looks like many little waterbomb bases on a sheet of paper. It also slightly resembles Shafer's slithering snake skin, just that your's is from a square, not a dollar bill (Though it is theoreticaly possible to do the slithering snake skin from a square). Amazing and good job!

pereze · Post by **pereze** » June 5th, 2009, 1:16 pm

Robert Lang's Samurai Helmet Beetle from Origami Insects and Their Kin.

spiritofcat · Post by **spiritofcat** » June 5th, 2009, 1:25 pm

legionzilla wrote:Wow! Looks like many little waterbomb bases on a sheet of paper. It also slightly resembles Shafer's slithering snake skin, just that your's is from a square, not a dollar bill (Though it is theoreticaly possible to do the slithering snake skin from a square). Amazing and good job!

Yeah, this tessellation can be done from any sort of rectangle as long as it can be divided up into squares. Each spike comes from one square area of the paper.

I have Origami to Astonish and Amuse, but I haven't paid much attention to the snake skin model. I'll have to check it out now.

Nice beetle Perez. It looks really solid.

legionzilla · Post by **legionzilla** » June 5th, 2009, 2:48 pm

pereze, the bug is wonderful, having a wonderful, clean folding style.

barakboom · Post by **barakboom** » June 5th, 2009, 10:58 pm

pereze wrote:Robert Lang's Samurai Helmet Beetle from Origami Insects and Their Kin.

this is very good!!
getting the kabuto mushi from origami insects and their kin is very hard!
i found it easier to fold the kabuto mushi from insects 2.
Very well done.

Froy · Post by **Froy** » June 6th, 2009, 1:49 am

barakboom wrote:getting the kabuto mushi from origami insects and their kin is very hard!
i found it easier to fold the kabuto mushi from insects 2.

Yes I agree, OI II is easier, and I'm impressed about how good this kabuto can look.

I have to review my book again after I gave up trying to fold it some time ago.

Bravo!

krt2 · Post by **krt2** » June 6th, 2009, 7:44 am

Thanks for the kind words Legionzilla, Wizmatt, and Spiritofcat.

I used Elephant Hide for this. Its a bit harder to pre-crease - it certainly took a long time! But the Elephant Hide can take a lot of abuse and not fall apart. And for this kind of tessellation, that was very important. Creases are folded and unfolded many times, and some of the twists are reversed toward the end. But the Elephant Hide stood up to all that and still looks great! No holes, no tears. Gotta love that!

Kim