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Introducing myself: William Gozali, an origami enthusiast from Indonesia.

I always have great interest in origami. Me as a kid would pick random paper, make it square, and fold simple model like fish, duck, or crane. As school responsibilities got heavier, I stopped doing origami.

One day at university's social event, my friend asked if I could do origami. As I was folding a simple model to show that person, I had flashback about the good old days of folding paper. I also remembered watching a Japanese TV show called "TV Champion", which one of the episode featured people folding crazy-complex origami like dragon. Being a computer science student at that time, I began to wonder if there is science behind it.

My question got answered when I discovered the book "Origami Design Secrets: Mathematical Methods for an Ancient Art" from Robert J. Lang. The book was expensive for me, but it was totally worth it and mind-blowing. I started to learn the basic design principles like grafting, molecules, circle packing, and box pleating.

"The Book"

Fast forward to 2015, I went to Indonesian Origami Convention and met great Indonesian designers. They were super kind, and taught me modern design techniques. This made my interest in origami even deeper. It feels to me that origami is perfect mixture of science and art.

Now that I am more confident in origami design, and to do my part of sharing the knowledge, I started this blog. This will contain my experiences in origami. The origami that I will feature in this blog is the one that uses single square uncut paper.

Hopefully new artist can learn something from here.

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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.

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 Proboscis Monkey

Adult male proboscis monkey has a large nose that dangle below the mouth. It's like Squidward. Apparently it's used for producing sound and natural selection prefer the louder one. Image credit: https://eol.org/pages/310436 It is endemic to Borneo and is critically endangered. Coincidentally a comrade in Origami Dan, Naoki , asked me to join force for raising awareness on endangered species. From now on, my every design with endangered species will have the red stamp with tarsier face.

Origami Crocodile

A simple crocodile foldable with any regular paper in 15 minutes.

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...

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