Origami Insect Crease Patterns
Multiple short creases all radiating from a single point may be claws toes or tentacles.
Origami insect crease patterns. Conventional origami diagrams describe a figure by a folding sequence a linear step by step pattern of progression. By dr ricardo pérez de la fuente research fellow. Some designers go to great lengths to fold a sheet of square paper into a realistic origami insects.
In recent years a new form of written instruction has become common within the modern art of origami. The entire model is folded from one sheet of paper. Posted on 15 july 2020 6 november 2020.
This model is designed by satoshi kamiya and depicts the beetle in flight with its wings out. A kabutomushi is a japanese rhinoceros beetle. Was also interested in learning about the evolution of earwigs and finding out when in deep time their characteristic crease pattern established.
Crease patterns by contrast provide a one step connection from the unfolded square to the folded form compressing hundreds of creases and sometimes hours of folding into a single diagram. Some fossils of jurassic earwigs show hints of possessing. Analyzing cp can allow you to modify an existing model or design new models.
A crease pattern with two distinct regions may represent the head and the body of the model. However some people bypass the problem by allowing the paper to be cut at designated places to achieve similar results with half the pain. Crease pattern available from blue paper s flickr.
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. The crease pattern often referred to by its abbreviation cp.
