Origami Crease Pattern
Analyzing cp can allow you to modify an existing model or design new models.
Origami crease pattern. David huffman s approach to paperfolding. Crease pattern adapted from the paper reconstructing david huffman s origami tessellations. It s much harder to fold an origami model from a crease pattern than it is from a diagram.
Crease patterns of my best work designed from 1999 current year. 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. Theoretically that s enough information to reconstruct the form.
A crease pattern with two distinct regions may represent the head and the body of the model. Origami crease patterns serve many purposes. 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.
How to fold origami crease patterns if your creation looks uneven or off go through the math rules to see what the mistake is and fix it. Designed by david huffman. To the everyday viewer they provide an alternate way of looking at the folded subject.
Crease patterns are visual representations of the unfolded model. Multiple short creases all radiating from a single point may be claws toes or tentacles. Conventional origami diagrams describe a figure by a folding sequence a linear step by step pattern of progression.
Unfold your paper figure take out two crayons and colour the pattern. To the designer they provide a structural representation of the artwork. More info about huffman s curved crease folding can be found in the paper reconstructing david huffman s legacy in curved crease folding and the thesis computational design with curved creases.
If the two colours meet you know where you need. Photo below from go guspath. To a folder they can provide signposts on the way to a fold.
The trick is figuring out what sequence of folds are needed to produce those mountains and valleys with a minimum number of other folds and backtracking steps. In recent years a new form of written instruction has become common within the modern art of origami. Giant sea bass cp.
Crease patterns are a quick an easy way to record how to fold an origami model. The crease pattern often referred to by its abbreviation cp. 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.
