Organic Origami

Finally, here is the 50th piece. The rules of the exhibition allow this one to be slightly larger and framed, as it is to be mounted to the side of the seven by seven grid. I chose to use the same 6 inch panel but then frame it in a 10 inch frame. The paper is origamido, hand made by Richard Alexander and Michael LaFosse.

Luckily, before I could get to zero creases, the 50 days will be over. Jokes aside, it’s possible to get interesting shapes even with zero creases. For details, get Paul Jackson’s book Folding Techniques for Designers.

Tant, 6 inch square.

Like every other piece in this series, folded from a single sheet, although this time a long rectangle. No calculations or constructions, just a smaller test version before folding. Paper: tengujoshi, 6g/m². (Previously from this paper: Twenty-five for the cover of Imagiro 91.

Last time, it was six, now only four creases.

Several famous origami roses, most of them designed by Toshikazu Kawasaki, use the back side of a square twist as the basis for the center of the rose. Here, the square twist is all that I folded. Then I pushed the four corners towards the center while holding them flat and helping the center rotate. I was trying to see how far this would go without any additional creases.

Yet another way to get four leaves. In addition to the optimal size, the leaves are attached to the rest only at one point and so can be freely rotated and twisted. The center of the sheet collapses into a stem. Just to give you an idea of the size, this was folded from a 6 inch square (that is, a square the same size as the black background).

A natural continuation from the previous day. The diagonal of the pleated square is divided into four not quite equal parts and three pinches squeeze the pleats to create four leaves.