Complex Origami Crease Patterns

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Complex origami crease patterns. Learn how to make origami with free instructions videos diagrams more. Origami crease patterns use mountain and valley folds. These are the instructions on how to make a wide rimmed origami planer pot box.

It s also a lovely display box. Simply fold the paper in half to replicate this. Learn how to make origami with free instructions videos diagrams more.

Crease patterns of my best work designed from 1999 current year. Crease patterns are a quick an easy way to record how to fold an origami model. If one takes the narrowest possible dictionary definition of the term a crease pattern or cp is nothing more than a set of lines that is a representation of some subset of folds in an origami shape real or imagined.

It s much harder to fold an origami model from a crease pattern than it is from a diagram. A crease pattern with two distinct regions may represent the head and the body of the model. The vertex of a mountain fold is pointing up.

Analyzing cp can allow you to modify an existing model or design new models. Crease patterns as art. To a folder they can provide signposts on the way to a fold.

To the designer they provide a structural representation of the artwork. Some of the revised crease patterns are not shown here because they are exclusive to my new book origami nature study at least for a short while. It s perfect to use as a little plant pot for paper flowers or the origami cactus.

Loading origami crease patterns serve many purposes. In a crease pattern you can see everything that is hidden in the folded work. And that answer varies with the person.

And the vertex is pointing down with a valley fold. A crease pattern is basically just an origami model that has been unfolded and shows all the creases on the original flat piece of paper. Crease pattern available from passion origami.

Here s another incredible and very complex origami angel. Search for crease patterns. Made with 1 sheet of square paper no glue required.

Another fairly complex but very colorful origami model for professionals. The deeper question is what does a crease pattern represent to some person. To the everyday viewer they provide an alternate way of looking at the folded subject.

But it can be is more. Crease patterns are the pattern left on the paper when the model has been completely unfolded. The ultimate website for anything and everything related to paper folding.