The Origami Forum

My newest design: Acrocinus longimanus


Acrocinus longimanus v1.0 by Me by Baltorigamist, on Flickr

A close-up of the back


Acrocinus longimanus (Close-Up 1) by Baltorigamist, on Flickr

Woah. Cool bug

Thanks. I'm glad two months of design paid off.

that thing would give me the heebie jeebies for sure. Nicely done

How do you make that beutiful crane on a crane on a crane?

I'm glad you like it. It's pretty simple, actually. Just fold a grafted frog base and then sink and unsink for an hour and a half.

I rely like the Acrocinus longimanus It looks so hard to make

Nice bug. Good proportions, really good proportions

Thanks guys! It's actually pretty easy to fold, just time-consuming. And a good chunk of that is final shaping, getting everything in the right position.

Actually, whats the point of sinking and unsinking if you don't even use those creases?

Please make diagrams!

What do you mean what's the point if the creases aren't used? The sinks and unsinks are used to create enough points for the two smaller cranes.

Never mind.

I finally drew up the CP for my Cyclommatus imperator. For anyone who wants to try it out, here it is:


cyclommatus imperator by Baltorigamist, on Flickr

Is it thirds?

Not even close.
Going up from the bottom left:
.35356
.70711

Up from bottom right:
.26588
.73412

And that doesn't even factor in the grafts for the toe splits, which I didn't draw due to laziness (Oripa needs a "bring-point-to-edge-from-a-given-point" feature).