The Origami Forum

This month's theme is

Patterned/Structured Paper

This month I challenge you to come up with a model that makes use of the appearance of the paper beyond its color.
A lot of 15x15 cm Origami Paper you can buy has nice and interesting printed patterns. You could use a geometric/decorative pattern for a vase, a zebra-patterned paper for a white tiger, ...
Another prominent example are money folds where e.g., patterns on a dollar bill are used to represent eyes, a mouth, ...
Also feel free to use paper that has a structure like natural paper that includes pieces of bark, rough water color paper, furry tissue, ...

Rules:

• Use a single uncut sheet. Any equilateral triangle, any rectangle (including square), or any regular polygon (i.e. all sides have the same length and all corners lie on the same circle) are fine.
• No gluing (MC for shaping is fine)
• No painting (feel free to paint/draw your own patterned paper, but this has to be done while the paper isn't folded yet)
• The model has to be designed by yourself during this month.
• This month's judge is juston

Here a few examples of what I had in mind:


Zebra - my own design, from a zebra patterned paper


Dog with Bone - my own design based on Jodi Fukumoto's Teddy Bear


Turtle magnet by Marc Kennedy (I don't know who designed the model) - notice how the larger and smaller pattern nicely match the legs/head and the shell


Hideo Komatsu's Sheep by Origamiancy on Flickr


Iimori-Flower by Yureiko on Flickr

edit: added Iimori-Flower example
edit2: "designed by yourself" rule

Of course it doesn't count as an entry beacause the model is not mine and because I folded it years ago, but I've always liked how the "eye" looks in this moidel:

Does that mean that the model does not have to be designed by yourself. I.e. could I fold someone else's design using patterned/structured paper specifically for that model?

Raptorex55 wrote:Does that mean that the model does not have to be designed by yourself.

Traditionally the "The Origami Forum" monthly challenges are for models you designed yourself during the month the competition runs. I don't want to break with this tradition without the input of the rest of the forum.
So answer is "No, you have to design the model yourself" and I'll amend the rules accordingly. However, if you have a great idea of enhancing an existing model with some patterned paper, I would love to see it in this thread nevertheless (clearly marked as "not eligible" like Brimstone's post).

NOT Eligible (I designed this puzzler several years ago) but this might give you some more ideas for this challenge:



This puzzle is folded from a single rectangle, the fold is unusual and quit tricky involving an inside out twist.
DOC
AKA "Firstfold"

Here is the Puzzle Before and Afer the Twist - showing the top and bottom of the completed puzzle.


To see a little of the process of the fold - follow this link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/firstfold/ ... 434627778/

Doc

Hi,
Thats a one Cartoon Dollar Airplane with lettering "AMERICA".



Dominik

If it's all right with everyone I'd like to move the final day for submissions to Monday rather than Sunday since I'll be out this weekend and unable to judge this challenge and set up the next one on time. An extra day might also entice some people into submitting another entry or three. Win win? I think so.

The patterned paper I have doesn't stand up to the rigors that my new Cuttlefish design requires without ripping at the 3-D joints, so I'll have to pass this one regrettably. I was pretty excited but this cheap stuff they were passing off as an origami pack turns white on the crease line after a few folds and rips open at the tips of a multilayer point. Maybe next time!

i chose the paper because it's just so nyan cattish. you know, pink, soft, fuzzy.

didnt you design a nyan cat before?

yes, but this one's better.

Your right about that! One of the best Nyan Cats out there

wow! that's really good praise! thank you!
sooo. juston, when will the judging happen?

The winner of the challenge is sinubuj for his cartoon dollar airplane. He has uploaded multiple versions of it to his flickr photostream that showcase how the patterns of the currency he has chosen can alter its final appearance. Check it out if you haven't already...


Origami Dollar airplane by Dominik Meissner http://www.Orime.de, on Flickr

Origami Pound airplane by Dominik Meissner http://www.Orime.de, on Flickr

Origami franc suisse aéronef by Dominik Meissner http://www.Orime.de, on Flickr


As the winner, sinubuj gets to judge the October challenge and decide the theme for November.