What have you folded lately?

insaneorigami · Post by **insaneorigami** » February 6th, 2009, 10:56 pm

Phoenix, with slightly modified head, designed by SK, folded by me

also, the mini-ryu zin that I was working on:

helliluya · Post by **helliluya** » February 7th, 2009, 11:14 am

Frog eating snake designed by Katsuhisa Yamada From Amazing Animals - Perfect Shot - 17*17cm Uncut Square, The size of finished model is about 6.5cm wide and 10cm in height.

Ondrej.Cibulka · Post by **Ondrej.Cibulka** » February 7th, 2009, 12:24 pm

Great choise of the model and great fold! Thanks for the sharing.

ftangdude55 · Post by **ftangdude55** » February 7th, 2009, 2:52 pm

I like the play on words in the title!

You would think it's a Frog-eating snake, but really its a frog eating (a) snake.

Post by **Daydreamer** » February 7th, 2009, 4:28 pm

well, there is a "frog-eating snake" in the same book

Hon · Post by **Hon** » February 7th, 2009, 4:29 pm

Darth Vader

artur biernacki · Post by **artur biernacki** » February 7th, 2009, 6:41 pm

I folded some models...
My Bull, diagram version.

Tiger by Komatsu Hideo

Mammuthus primigenius by Kamiya Satoshi.

Cicada nymph by Kamiya Satoshi

Artur
My gallery on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/12569445@N02/

anermak · Post by **anermak** » February 7th, 2009, 9:46 pm

god of thunder

Designed by Hojyo Takashi
square 35-35cm

krt2 · Post by **krt2** » February 8th, 2009, 3:56 am

Here are a few more things I've folded recently when experimenting with Heinz Strobls Knotology ideas. I found them facinating - a different approach to modular I guess.

Here's a Shpere I made with his weaving method. It used 12 strips 1:22. Its based on a photo and a instructions on the Knotology web site.

This next model is based on Valentina Gonchar's "Revealing Flower" (or "Revealed Flower", depending on the source) that I redesigned using Knotology. The modle is essentially a dodecahedron where each side is made up of five trangles comming to a bit of a point. Each of these 12 points snap open and closed. It was made using 10 strips ~1:31. I prefered this over the modular version becuse that one required glue to hold the modules in place against the strain of snaping the points open and closed.
Here it is with the nodes snapped closed:

And here it is with the nodes snapped open:

Its a pretty fun model to play with. The points snap open and closed so crisply!

Kim

krt2 · Post by **krt2** » February 8th, 2009, 9:24 am

OK, just a couple more of my projects I wanted to highlight (cause I'm unduly proud of them

. But I'm almost up to date with my Flickr postings so I promise I'll slowdown on the posts and stop hogging the bandwidth here.

Over the Christmas holidays, we were snowed in for a long time. So I spent the time folding Yoshino's T-Rex skeleton. It was a lot more work than I'd imagined. Even though its from 21 squares, its not a modular because its not just one folding sequence duplicated 21 times. its many different folding sequences, with a few of them duplicated. But each one is significantly more difficult than any modular unit I've ever folded. It was quite time consuming (more time than both of Kamiya's Dragons put together!), but very rewarding!

I've folded all the models in Kamiya's book and I really enjoyed all of them. Very fun folds from my perspective. Intense, but fun! But as it seems with many people in this forum, I have a special fascination with the dragons. So, over the last few weeks I've gone back and re-folded the Divine Dragon and the Ancient Dragon. I've got more pictures of them up on my Flickr site if you're interested. I'm quite pleased with how the came out. Much better than my previous attempts. I was also very pleased with the gold fleck tissue I used for the Divine Dragon. I think that turned out very nicely.

Divine Dragon (Bahamut)

Ancient Dragon

Currently, I'm working on some tessellations and trying to fold Kamiya's Phoenix 3.5 from the CP (and the helpful info form you all on this list). For the tessellations, I've just recently picked up Eric Gjerde's "Origami Tessellations" book. Its a wonderful book! I'd highly recommend it. It is beautiful, well laid out, with full color pictures throughout. It just calls you to it and makes you want to fold tessellations! Here's one of my favorites so far:

I've have pictures of severa other tessellations from this book up on my Flickr site too if you're interested to see them.

Have fun folding!
Kim

cedison · Post by **cedison** » February 8th, 2009, 6:44 pm

My most recent although it employs more of my older techniques than newer techniques

Eric's website has already been mentioned, but you can also goto the flickr origami tessellations group and some tutorials have been posted.

I have some pictoral instructions at http://www.cedison.wordpress.com , but they are mixed in with a lot of other stuff use tags to find them.

I really however recommend two things, buying Eric's book Origami Tessellations and going through the past pictures at http://www.flickr.com/groups/origamitessellations/
You will find a lot of repetition and that your discoveries arn't new (although just as valuable to development of a distinct style and a learning curve) but you can see a development of techniques that will allow you to have a faster learning curve than you would otherwise.[/img]

krt2 · Post by **krt2** » February 8th, 2009, 9:00 pm

Christine,
This is simply amazing! Well, OK, maybe not so simple, but really amazing!

So, how big is it? I always have a problem of size in these pictures since there's nothing to compare to (not that there should be

Kim

cedison · Post by **cedison** » February 8th, 2009, 9:28 pm

Thanks Kim about 9" by 16"

insaneorigami · Post by **insaneorigami** » February 8th, 2009, 10:20 pm

Nice tesselations!

great job!

Sara · Post by **Sara** » February 9th, 2009, 3:11 am

I decided to give Phu Tran's rose a try. Here's what I managed with a 19.5cm square:

I'd love to get diagrams for this, so that I can figure out how it all really should work. But I think I'm close enough, just changing Kawasaki-san's new rose a bit here and there.

I also recently folded John Montroll's ox from a 15cm square, just before Chinese New Year:

Diagrams are in "Mythological Creatures and the Chinese Zodiac in Origami". I didn't add many finishing touches, I probably should have used larger paper.

-- Sara

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