Curved Origami Tutorial

This video explains the basics of folding a curved crease origami ornament.

Curved origami tutorial. To make the basic curved fold shape you must first draw or score and cut out a. Square sheet of printer paper 4. Sarah awada and eleana kakli design for manufacture march the bartlett ucl 2018.

Using a scoring implement follow the lines to create a guide for the curved folds. A majority of these models will use colorful square origami paper but if all you have is plain white rectangular a4 or 8 5x11 paper those will work as well. This model is created by folding consecutive mountain and valley folds around the center of a circle.

I get a lot of questions of how to perform curved folding. Origami tutorial you ll find an origami tutorial for many popular models. Overall this thesis has made a significant contribution to the research field of origami engineering and large deformation non linear mechanics.

The curved folds are all concentric circles. I share my knowledge about making curved fold origami by hand meaning using only hands and some origami tools for pre scoring the paper. People got discouraged when i tell them about cutting machines.

The material is a thin foil wrapping paper with self adhesive laminate on both si. The paper you choose for this project can have a big impact on the look and effect your. It offers a strong research platform for curved crease origami ranging from the fundamental geometrical relations to potential engineering applications.

The process of folding is quite easy but it may take some time to develop familiarity with it. Tools of the trade.