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Does anyone know how to make a singular origami loop with no glue? I really like this model of the Chien dog but his loops are all glued and I don't want to use glue. Any help is greatly appreciated

http://www3.sympatico.ca/michel.turmel/ ... index.html

Take a long strip of paper.
Valley fold it in half the long way and unfold.
Valley fold the long sides to the middle line and unfold.
Valley fold a small bit inward on one small end and mountain fold the opposite end at an equal amount.
Insert the flap of the one end into the flap of the other building a loop.
Valley fold the sides in on existing creases.
Done.

You can make loop from cranes or tessalation:

[img]http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g275/ ... lation.jpg[/img]

That wasn't what I was looking for but SUPER COOL! Did you do that? And is there some kind of crease patter for it?

Ondrej.Cibulka wrote:You can make loop from cranes or tessalation:

wow, is there diagram for it?

thanks

This loop is so easy that you absolutely cannot to imagine. It is just standard Fujimoto's three-levels tesselations, check
http://www.happyfolding.com/gallery-fuj ... er_folding
I checked Ravi Apte's site and it do not works?!

Make this tesselation on the rectangle and one end fold into another and make ring. Easy and impressive. But toilsome...

wow cool
his site is down can you make a diagram?

Yes, I do. But I have some urgent work for this weekend, so I am not sure when... I am sorry.

Anyway, maybe diagram already exist. Do someone know about such diagram (elsewhere of Ravi Apte's site)? Or do someone remember basic number of dividing of the square for three-level tesselation and number of dividing for each level more?

I saw this tesellation before here and had to fold it. A bit of googling took me to Eric Gjerde's site where I found out somewhere that this is just a tesselation of Thoki Yenn's Crossed Box Pleat, which has diagrams here. Thank you BOS.

For the tesselation each level is divide into 8ths, so for level 3 it would be 24ths. I just folded my square into 3rds both ways, put the creases for the CBP in the middle square, extended the creases to the edges and fiddled till it folded flat.

Looking at it again I got my crease pattern wrong. It looks like you start at 10 divisions for the first level, then add 6 divisions per level. I guess that's why level 3 is popular - 16 divisions is much easier to do than 22 - just how do you divide into 11ths anyway?!

For the loop shown before, you would divide the width into 16. I've just made a rough one in copy paper and it looks - well rough. Now to figure out joining the ends.

The second BOS link is Fujimoto's tesselation. Basic three-level tesselation has different number of dividing.