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OUSA Convention 2025

Finally made it to New York. I had a great time, and at the same time experienced the bizarreness of this megalopolis. This blog post starts by sharing my 2 days NY sightseeing experience, followed by the convention experience.
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Origami Pukeko Chick, One Legged

This is the memed version with one leg. It uses the same layout as the normal 2 legged version, but with ~37% less paper.

Origami Pukeko Chick v1.1

Change log: Longer legs Rounder body Diagram can be downloaded here .

Origami Common Wildebeest

Common wildebeest (or gnu) is a type of large antelope with flat face, big & striped shoulder, mane on the back, and shaggy beard. Often featured in African savannah wildlife documentary, shown in massive herds that migrate in search of grazing area. Usually the next scene would be their death; eaten by lions, leopards, hyenas, wild dogs, crocodiles -- you name it.

EBOC 2025

Another year, another EBOC. I participated on both the 5th and 6th of April event, which was great. Pre-Convention Unlike last year where an email was sent, I knew the event from Discord announcement. There were forms to register for diagram submission, exhibition, and teaching. Being a local, I have the moral obligation to participate on all of those, but with some adjustments. The first is diagram submission. Worrying the printing company would mess up again, I asked the committee if they can check if my submitted diagram has correct mountain and valley before it's printed. I also changed the diagramming software from Affinity Designer (with Nicolas Terry's template) to Inkscape, with template built from scratch. Hopefully this template with plain old vector won't introduce missing asset. By the way the model I submitted was water boatmen . The second is exhibition. The convention venue is small, and we better to take the exhibition off at the end of each day because no o...

Origami Pukeko Chick

Pukeko, or Australasian swamphen, is endemic bird in New Zealand and its surrounding region. Their large legs with disproportionately long toes are useful to traverse swamps and marshes without sinking. What I made here is the chick version, infamous as "the damn bird" meme.

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.

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 Crocodile

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