Origami

My third origami design was the simple sauropod (pics at more angles on the insta). If you want to fold this, the crease pattern is below. Here, like with the lizard, I started with a tree diagram and did circle packing through box pleating. In this case, I found I wasn’t quite able to pack box pleating squares sufficiently, so I used a technique called the Pythagorean stretch which is what creates the strange polygonal areas in the pattern....

The baby sea turtle was my second origami design. If you want to fold this, the crease pattern is below. In this case, instead of starting with circle packing, I started by making the pleats I eventually wanted to end up on the back of the shell, then just played around until I felt the head and legs looked about right. For help folding, I made an album with pictures at various stages....

The simple lizard was my first origami design! If you want to fold this, the crease pattern is below. Most origami design starts with creating a tree structure representing the rough shape of your final figure. Then, you covert terminal nodes in the tree into circles to pack into the square, with each circle corresponding to a spike as long as the circle’s radius in the final design. In this case, the final model looks basically the same as the tree diagram, so we can jump right to the circle packing:...