Welcome to my main origami page. Here you will find a small gallery of undiagrammed models, some of my model and basic diagrams, and directories to the origami books I own. I have a few auxillery pages which approach origami in a more technical manner.
Things here will change from time to time, with no particular order of priority.
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This model is outwardly the same model as my oldest gallery entry. However, this model was accomplished
through folding alone. This was folded from a 13.75 inch square. The final model is about four inches
across.I've decided to name this model, "Infinite bird bases". |
Here's my stem for the Kawasaki Rose. Like any proper rose stem, this one has a leaf and a thorn
to make you bleed.I've been using a version of this stem for the past five years, but only this spring (2006) I added the thorn. Since I'm now satisfied with the model, I here show it to the world. It works best with a thin sheet of paper. |
This model is a second order approximation of the fractal surface called a Menger Sponge. It is composed of
2,400 pieces of paper and took a good deal of time spread over three months to complete. The individual cubes
are composed of six sonobe modules. The modules of adjacent cubes were folded with opposite polarity so that
they would mesh, locking the cubes together.
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The Phizz-unit torus and ball I'd mentioned. These are fun models to have, but are not fun models to make. I
didn't take note of how many modules each of the pieces required; I'll update here when/if I count them. After
I took this photo I disasembled the ball, intending on using the modules to build a genus 2 structure. That is
a potential future project.
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I came up with this model while teaching a former girlfriend a fold I'd done sometime before. It is
based on a two-by-two tiling of the bird base. The model has the eight petals you can see here, along with four
bracts and a stem which you cannot.
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This is a form that I'd been trying to design for several years. I remember seeing an image of a large
exhibition model that had the shape and was fascinated by it. No designs were to be found for all the looking I
did, so I was left to my own resources to come up with one. Each variant I came up with ended up being too
restrictive to fold or just did not have the traits of the form. I finally accomplished the model by using what to me is an unorthodox method, cutting. I guess this model is more kirigami than origami, but it is still neat to look at. It's got 64 points and took a while to fold. For ow it will reside in this new gallery section. I may diagram it sometime, but I think I want to work out a etter method for generating the form. The image that originally triggered this quest can be found midway down this page on the JOAS site. Recently I discovered another version of this model midway down another page on the JOAS site. Ikegami Ushio is the person to thank for creating these models. |
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Crease Diagrams |
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Here's a crease diagram for "Infinite bird bases".The dark creases are those you must fold before starting the collapse, the light folds will arrive later. For the collapse, work from the smallest bird bases down to the largest. All the major points go one way while the minor points go the the other. You'll end up with what seems like lots of extra layers in inconvenient places. Starting with the smallest bird bases again, fold under and/or rabbit-ear the layers to reveal each final point. If you work through the model in this way, all of those extra flaps and layers end up nicely tucked underneath the surface pattern of nested bird base stars. You can decrease the level of difficulty by removing the smallest bird bases and their attached bars. Once you have completed this model, here is a slightly more complicated version. |
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Diagrams |
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This diagram is now complete. Most of my origami consist of single sheet models. Having the stem folded
from a separate square than the flower allows for the two distinct colors which is most apropriate for the
rose.I have given these to friends and not thought a second time about it, only to find a few years later that they still had them. My stem with Kawasaki's rose together constitute one of my very favorite models. |
This is a diagram of the first of my own origami models, the scorpion. Here is the diagram : scorpion.
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Here is a dragon I first came up with in my second year of high school. I lost track of the model when my
family moved a couple of years ago, but I managed to recreate it. It fits exactly with what I remembered of
the original and once I did find the original I was able to confirm it. To me it looks like a baby eastern
dragon, but you might disagree on that point. Here's the file:
dragon.
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I made this butterfly in the summer of 1999. I designed the model by making its component parts and then fitting
them together. Later I discovered this process to be called 'box pleating'. Here's the file:
butterfly.
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I've tried before to fold a cross but failed to produce anything I was happy with. This time around I managed
to come up with a decent celtic cross. Here's the file : cross.
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This model I made on my first day of college life. It wasn't until a few years later that I decided to reverse engineer
the one copy I had of the model. I was mostly successfull and this diagram is the result. The tail is different than
I remember the original having, but I'm happy with this version. Here's the file : hummingbird.
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Basics |
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Some basic shapes and
bases that you might find useful. |
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A maximum equilateral triangle from a square. A square from a rectangle. A regular pentagon from a square. A maximum regular hexagon from a square. A regular heptagon from a square. A maximum regular octagon from a square. |
the preliminary base. the waterbomb base. the kite base. the fish base. the bird base. |
trisection of a square. pentasection of a square. n-section of a square. golden section. |
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Books |
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The origami books I own or owned in the recent past. The links lead to a list of the models found in each book and a cover image for each book. |
| Classic Origami | P. D. Tuyen | 0-8069-1281-2 | Complete Origami | Eric Kenneway | 0-312-00898-8 | Fabulous Origami Boxes | Tomoko Fuse | 0-87040-978-6 | Geometric Exercises in Paper Folding | T. Sundara Row | 0-4862-1594-6 | Kusudama, Ball Origami | Makoto Yamaguchi | 0-87040-863-1 | Origami Design Secrets, Mathematical Methods for an Ancient Art | Robert J. Lang | 1-56881-194-2 | Origami Made Easy | Kunihiko Kasahara | 0-87040-253-6 | Origami Omnibus | Kunihiko Kasahara | 4-8170-9001-4 | Origami School | Watanabe Yasushi | 4-321-25514-7 | Origami Sculptures | John Montroll | 0-486-26587-0 | Origami Sea Life | John Montroll & Robert J. Lang | 0-486-26765-2 | Origami for the Connoisseur | Kunihiko Kasahara & Toshie Takahama | 4-8170-9002-2 | Origami for the Enthusiast | John Montroll | 0-486-23799-0 | Origami, 2006 Calendar | Jan Polish & Kathryn Wagner | 0-7407-5195-6 | Origami, Easy-to-Make Paper Creations | Gay Merrill Gross | 1-58663-236-1 | Origami, The Complete Guide to the Art of Paperfolding | Rick Beech | 0-7548-0782-7 | Origami, from Angelfish to Zen | Peter Engel | 0-486-28138-8 | Origami: Rokoan Style #2 | Masako Sakai & Michie Sahara | 0-89346-932-7 | The Guide to Hawaiian Style Origami | Jodi Fukumoto | 0-89610-421-4 |
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Links |
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