WG-Origami

I have made poison dart frog before on the daily challenge , which has potential to be upgraded. The obvious progression path for animal like frog is to add toes. So here I am, adding toes with strip graft.

Frigatebird is a very large sea bird. Its main feature is an enormous wingspan, a long & forked tail, and an air sac on male that can be inflated to attract mate. There are several species of it, and one of it is endemic to Christmas Island in Indian Ocean. They are critically endangered there. If I am lucky I can see them in the bay of my hometown.  This is the second version of my origami frigatebird. I made one before for Origami Dan's November design contest, whose theme was "aerial". The first version looks like this: Top quarter of the paper is folded underneath. Why? Keep reading. Since the topic was "aerial", I wanted to make this bird in flying pose. Something like what we as human will see from the ground. The air sac of course has to be color changed, and it isn't hard to do. However by introducing color change in a bird model with open wings, the wings will be tricky.

The theme for Origami Dan's May design contest was prehistoric human; or anything related to it. I was tired to design complex model, and aimed to make simple model. So I thought of making this roasted meat. Jang Yong Ik's asian black bear and Syn's Adult Syn having a good time.

Crease Pattern Design I made this for April 2021 design contest in Origami-Dan. The theme was "same subject", which later was decided as "parasitoid fungi species affecting invertebrates".

I had the opportunity to join FoldFest Spring 2021, which was hosted by Origami USA in online. We had to pay $40, but looking at the content and opportunity to meet people, I think it was worth it. Through this post I will share my experience on attending it. Prior to this, I had only one origami conference experience which was on Indonesia back in 2014. I felt so good when I met people with same hobby and we can discuss and share knowledge. In FoldFest, I had the same feeling. Even though we can't walk around and meet people in person, the committee of FoldFest used a platform called gather.town, which allowed us to create our avatar and explore the premade map. When we walked across someone, within certain proximity, a video call screen will pop up and we can see/talk to each other. To some extent that substitutes the feeling of meeting in person during conference.

Here we go with the prompt #21 until #27. #21 Ornament: Fleur de Lis The requirement of 3 large flaps and 3 smaller flaps is ideal for bird base with one corner split. The challenge here is to make the curved structure on the sides. I have no other idea apart from doing the loose reverse fold.  #22 Teeth: Helicoprion Helicoprion is a prehistoric shark with teeth on lower jaw that looks like circular saw. I don't have experience on folding teeth apart from Takagi's mosasaurus which used a long flap that gets pleated. To follow that idea, I reserved the entire 1/4 corner for lower jaw. Naturally the upper jaw can be put in the middle to make a bird-base like structure: The remaining corners somehow should form body, tail, and other fins. It doesn't matter which corner should be used for the tail, the body length will the same since any remaining corners will yield the largest possible circle. I picked the lower left and now it became like a full blown bird base. I made a bird...

Here we go with the prompt #14 until #20.

Coconut crab is a species of hermit crab that has abandoned the lifestyle of carrying gastropod's shell. Instead, it grows hard exoskeleton and curl its abdomen underneath. This allows their growth to be unconstrained by gastropod's shell availability. As such they can get really big. Unfortunately their existence is on vulnerable state due to habitat loss and over hunting. The Origami-Dan's design contest theme for January was "improvement". We can submit improved version of our previous design. I guess it's good thing to do to start the year, to look back and see how much we have improved.