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Jon Tucker - Dragon (CP)

Posted: January 9th, 2010, 3:28 pm
by Enraka
hey people! i just found this amazing dragon here;
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jon_tucker/3832039076/

and the guy who designed it was nice enough to post the CP over here;
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jon_tucker ... 328103243/

i really want to fold it, but i'm having trouble with the CP.
any help?

Posted: January 9th, 2010, 5:11 pm
by origami_8
And what part of the CP is giving you troubles?

Posted: January 9th, 2010, 8:10 pm
by Enraka
umm, finding the base :lol:

i'm not very good at CP's

Posted: January 9th, 2010, 9:35 pm
by topsu
Are you having trouble finding the locations for the creases?

Posted: January 9th, 2010, 10:38 pm
by Ragnorax
Well if you're beginning CPs you might find the information in this thread useful: viewtopic.php?p=66908#66908

Also, J0nB0n has an account on this site: Johnnycakes, and im sure you could ask him for help if you need. He helped me when i tried to fold his dollar ryuzin :wink:

Posted: January 10th, 2010, 6:27 am
by Jonnycakes
Hi-my dragon is not too difficult to fold as long as you do things in the right order. The main creases can be found by folding angle bisectors from the corners. First collapse the angled pleats along the outside and then with the diamond of paper you have left make a sort of distorted bird base. After that you can rabbit-ear the long flaps for the rest of the creases.

Posted: January 11th, 2010, 5:55 pm
by Enraka
haha :D i would have never guessed that you where on here!

thanks for the tip, i'll print that off as soon as poss :)

Posted: January 11th, 2010, 8:21 pm
by steingar
And if you're patient you can get the diagrams in the Centerfold Convention Program.

Posted: January 12th, 2010, 7:33 pm
by Enraka
can you get that from the internet?

Re: Jon Tucker - Dragon (CP)

Posted: June 14th, 2011, 10:40 pm
by orislater
i folded this dragon a few minutes ago but the spines look like crap. how did you get them so clean jon? folded it bird base thing then did unsink things to make the extra points and then sunk (without precreasing) the part thats supposed to be sunk but then they looked like crap. are you supposed to pre crease the sinks? i didn't because on your flickr it says they're fudged so i assumed it meant just kindof guess.

Re: Jon Tucker - Dragon (CP)

Posted: March 22nd, 2016, 11:51 am
by drkns
Need help doing this, I'm done with the bird base but I don't know what are the next reference lines

Re: Jon Tucker - Dragon (CP)

Posted: April 2nd, 2016, 4:32 am
by ahudson
First things first-- that ain't a bird base. Divide two opposite corners into 8ths and then in the central area, bisect the angles where they meet the diagonal to make a double-rabbit-ear type structure in the center.

This design uses some boxpleating-related concepts, you should do some simple boxpleating first so you understand what's going on in the middle area.