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I came up with this cool crease pattern. Can you complete it without photos of the finished piece?



Click on it to open the full-size CP.

That's gonna take a lots of time!!! Anyway is that a rectangle????

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Again, click on it to open the full-size CP.

Anyway is that a rectangle?

Yeah, turns out it's a 992 x 1000 rectangle. Which, unless your paper is huge, is basically a square. The paper will get so stretched out in the creasing anyhow, that such an inaccuracy won't matter.

It has 247 points.

reminds me of sea urchin cp..

Oh my God!!!

That looks hard to fold...

By the way, what's the result!??

It looks like a sea urchin, as trekker said...just 247 points, plus a few really tiny points in between as byproduct of the thinning. By the way, those are equilateral triangle molecules, right?

Jonnycakes wrote:It looks like a sea urchin, as trekker said...just 247 points, plus a few really tiny points in between as byproduct of the thinning. By the way, those are equilateral triangle molecules, right?

Yeah, those are equilateral triangle molecules.

I've been working on a design, with these molecules, and this idea just kind of popped up, and was much easier than what I was working on.

Whatever it is, it looks like hell to fold, but might actually come out nice from a huge sheet of paper.

(Yes, my first thought was a sea urchin, but it could be something else...)

Can someone say precreasing....

It could be called something else, but really, that is only going to be little ball with 247 spikes sticking out of it. Equilateral triangle molecules and other molecules based on 30 degree symmetry are tough to work with-I have tried a few things using them and got some cool looking bases but not much else.

Something with tons of legs...

The problem with something with tons of legs is that the pairs of legs will be separated. In this CP all the points are coming from the same spot.

hmmm. Johnycakes has a point. Though if you were
to perhaps simplify or rather make less points you might
be able to make something resembling perhaps an anemone.
I can't help but think of Vincent Floderer's sea anemone
when I look at this crease pattern....

not good much fold result ok, but you can try

rockmanex6 wrote:not good much fold result ok, but you can try

Don't insult it. You do not have the right to say something is "not good" unless you show that you are a competent designer, which you have absolutely not done. You haven't even shown that you are a decent folder. And please: Learn English.

Anyhow, I started folding a section of it just to check how foldable it was. And it turns out it's not that difficult to fold. Sure it will take a little while and needs a large sheet of paper, but really, it's not bad at all. I do actually plan on folding this one.

Nicely Put origamimasterjared! It sounds crazy but if you look at it, the Cp is just a 'tesselation' of that triangle pattern and is pretty easy. The hard part is making it accurate and clean.