WG-Origami

Origami Palooza is annual one day event organized by community in San Francisco Japantown, which includes  Paper Tree . Despite living in the nearby city since 2018, I've only heard about it from other EBOC participants back in 2025. The event takes place in Hotel Kabuki in Japantown. There would be classes, some free and some require payment. In the adjacent building, there is a mall where volunteers open tables to teach origami to the public. There are also competitions with prizes. I actually went to there in 2025, but didn't have the chance to write it up. I went there again in 2026, so this post will cover both events.

We have another East Bay Origami Convention (EBOC) this year on 4th - 5th of April. Even though I only attended the Sunday event, I had great time. Pre-Convention I got the news from discord server as well as invitation email. I like that they announced the convention theme: "aquatic" so we can plan accordingly on what to exhibit, teach, or diagram. I planned to teach point splitting and its generalization as lecture, and submit a simple turtle that can be folded from bird base + point split. Later I thought this model would be too boring and unworthy of being diagrammed. So I designed this quick cuttlefish from bird base with point splits and finished the diagramming in 3 days. The turtle was demoted into exercise in the class which could be a nice practice and assurance that class participants are able to utilize the technique. I planned to exhibit 2 of my new models: trapdoor spider and common wildebeest. The spider is a must as last year I told Ryan that it was in-progres...

Finish the tail area with 11.25 Remora use their suction-cup-like dorsal fin to hitchhike on larger sea creatures like rays, sharks, and whales.

Lampreys are fish with primitive features. Together with hagfish, they are the last surviving jawless vertebrate. These creatures don't exist in my home country, so I've only known their existence from encyclopedia back in elementary school. Their somewhat scary circular mouth is full of teeth and will surely etch into memory. 

Some time ago, Bodo posted a transition unit challenge in Origami Design School Discord server. I solved them, and thanks to that, my understanding of the construction improved. I'll share the screenshot of the challenge so you can try solving it.