origami

Parakeet - Fumiaki Kawahata

I’m no expert but this seemed fun to do. Spend your holidays turning Andes mint wrappers into festive trees....

Chipmunk - Gen Hagiwara / Nicholas Terry

cross-posted from: lemmy.getmeotter.work/post/63297...

Japanese Macaque design by Hideo Komatsu

Cat design by Hideo Komatsu

Do you have favorite model ?...

Jackalope design by Satoshi Kamiya

Yacht design by Yoshizawa Akira

Swallow design by Sipho Mabona

Three headed dragon design by John Montroll

Hedgehog design by Yudai Imai

Spiral Shell design by Toshikazu Kawasaki

I’m looking for a community where I could find advice on origami but also other type of paper craft. Is this the right place ? Do you know any other community on these theme ? The ones on lemmy.world don’t have a single post.

Mine is probably the crane or the jumping frog at this point, but I’m probably overlooking a ton of other cool traditional models. Anyone else have any they like to fold?

ORIPA is the closest thing we have to CAD for origami. It’s based on Java, although it does have binary builds for several major platforms. I couldn’t get the Windows build to work, so I installed the OpenJDK and used the .jar file. The program is essentially based on editing a crease pattern, allowing you to visualize the...

This was one of my first attempts at using a repeating base pattern to create a more complex model. In other words, I basically folded a bird base in four smaller sections of the paper, which left me with several little subsections that I could fold in a way that added a more sculpted look. Since I was coincidentally using black...