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Models featured on this page are my original design, made from single square uncut paper.

About the Stamp

I am partnering with Naoki Terao, on showcasing animals that are endangered. Through origami, we can raise awareness of endangered species and do something about our lifestyle that will not disrupt the survival of biodiversity! Check https://naokigami.com/ for more details.

My Designs

Part with different color is utilizing the underside of the paper.

Frigatebird v3
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Turkey Vulture
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Crocodile
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Earwig
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Water Boatmen
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Halibut
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Coconut Crab
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Condor
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Swift Dragon
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Snail
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Ghost Knifefish
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Bali Myna
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Markhor
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Bowhead Whale
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Volant Penguin
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Babirusa
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Secretarybird
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Ibex
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Helmeted Hornbill
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Proboscis Monkey (branch excluded!)
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Poison Dart Frog
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Roasted Meat
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Tarantula with Cordyceps
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Helicoprion
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Weedy Sea Dragon
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King of Saxony Bird of Paradise
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Roadrunner Eating Lizard
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Frog on a Lily Pad
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Greater Bird of Paradise
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Peacock Spider
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Remora
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Executioner (medieval)
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Palm Civet
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Leafcutter Ant
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Cordyceps (ant infected by fungi)
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Indonesian Crane
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Triangular Spider
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Comments

Origami Frigatebird v3

My frigatebird's color is fading, so I thought about refolding it with something better than double tissue. While doing so, I got some ideas to update it. Now it has distinction of lower/upper beak, and individual toes. Also used this opportunity to fold the female version.

Warped and Wrinkled Paper Curse

After starting using Carboxy Methylcellulose (CMC), I began to wonder if my setup wasn't right. The problem was my double tissue would always peel itself when drying. There will be high pitched popping sound from the paper every now and then. Finally it would be completely off the surface. Whereas on every tutorial I saw, the paper will still stick to the surface and we have to peel it off. The bad part is the paper will be warped; it's not flat. It is difficult to fold a straight line on paper like this. Imagine precreasing a grid or locating references when your fold can be bent due to the paper's bump. I have theory on why the warp happened. Before going to that, it is important to know that: When a paper is wet, it expands. When it dries, it will return to the original size. However it will keep its shape when it is wet, meaning that if it is bent when wet, it will retain that bend when dried. When my paper dried partially, that region will shrink. This created differe...

Origami Turkey Vulture

Turkey vulture is a type of vulture whose head and color just happened to look like wild turkey. I frequently see them in San Jose and its surrounding wilderness, slowly soaring and gliding on low altitude. Their V-shaped pose with occasional wobble is rather unique, so it is easy to identify them.

Origami Ibex

Ibex is a type of wild goat found on Eurasia and North/East Africa. Easily identifiable by its long curved horn full of ridges, which is what I'm trying to express here. Nubian ibex is vulnerable to extinction due to competition with livestock and habitat loss. Ibex has been nearly extinct multiple times in the past because of hunting and unable to compete against livestock. The most recent extinction was Pyrenean ibex, in the year of 2000. Image source: https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/nubian-ibex I want to make my model to be instantly recognizable as an ibex, not a goat. Horn ridges are rather specific for ibex, so I tried to represent that with spike structure commonly used on insect legs.

Diagramming Tips

Over the years of origami, I have produced several diagrams. My diagramming journey was influenced by many authors, especially Jo Nakashima, Nicholas Low, and Satoshi Kamiya. There were many subtleties of diagramming that I have to discover by reading other's diagram, which I would like to share in this post. To be precise, "diagram" here refers to step by step origami instruction drawn using software.

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