Cross - Jared Needle

Cross - Jared Needle, originally uploaded by Origami Weekly.

Happy Easter!

I designed the first version of this cross back in 2006. I've changed it a bit over the years, eventually happening upon 1/3 being the magic reference point that made all the flaps of desired width.

This simple-looking design contains quite a few treats for the folder. There is a tight closed-sink--it's not super difficult, but you have to be careful. Also, it uses three different locking procedures to keep it together.

Here are the diagrams:

Cross - Jared Needle

The version above was folded by me from a 6 inch square of origami paper.

As usual, thanks for being a part of Origami Weekly. Remember, we are always interested in seeing you all fold our work!

See you again next week!

--Jared

Tiger Shark - Andrew Hudson

Tiger Shark - Andrew Hudson, originally uploaded by Origami Weekly.

It's April! For this week, Andrew Hudson has drawn diagrams of his Tiger Shark. It's from a frog base, and it contains a few tricky/fun maneuvers.

Diagrams: Tiger Shark - Andrew Hudson

The version above was folded by Jared Needle, from an 8.5 inch square of copy paper.

As always, we thank you for checking out Origami Weekly, encourage you all to post photos of your foldings, and remind you to come back for next week's edition of Origami Weekly!

Zhoubi Bowl, by Philip Chapman-Bell

Zhoubi Bowl, by Philip Chapman-Bell, originally uploaded by Origami Weekly.

For this week, we've got a nice, deceptively simple bowl from Philip (you might know him as oschene on Flickr). I say deceptively simple because although it's not to hard to fold, the math behind it is fascinating, and surprisingly complex, when it gets down to it. There's a division by sevenths in there, and even an allusion to a proof for the Pythagorean Theorem from an old Chinese mathematical text.

Diagrams available here.

Mask, by Joel Cooper

Mask, by Joel Cooper, originally uploaded by Origami Weekly.

Week 12, and we're running out of time again-- this time around, a tessellated mask by Joel Cooper. We've all been impressed by Joel's work, but like most of the tessellation community, he doesn't post creasepatterns for his models. I understand why-- this took me eight hours to reverse-engineer, and another four hours to draw the CP. In fact, we ran out of time to finish folding it-- which is why you get this picture instead of a finished one folded from nicer paper.

CP here:
dl.getdropbox.com/u/232756/joelmask.pdf

CP (c) Andrew Hudson, design (c) Joel Cooper

Stars and Wheels, Andrew Hudson

Stars and Wheels, Andrew Hudson, originally uploaded by Origami Weekly.

Welcome back to week 11! I saw that we haven't posted a geometric model in a few weeks, so here's a diagram I've been working on for awhile. As far as I know, this is the first full diagram of the decreeping process, which I've worked with a lot through variations on Chris Palmer's Flower Tower. It's tricky, so hold tight and don't get too frustrated!

So here are the diagrams:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/232756/decreep.pdf

As usual, we'd love to see your interpretation of our diagrams. Please post pictures, or send them to us!

Wildebeest - Ryan Welsh

Wildebeest - Ryan Welsh, originally uploaded by Origami Weekly.

Wildebeest - Ryan Welsh

It's Week 10!

This may feel like a bit of a blast from the past. This week we have Ryan Welsh's Wildebeest, which appears to have a strong John Montroll influence. The design and diagrams were made back in the 90s!  Yet even today it still looks nice!

Wildebeest - Ryan Welsh

The version above was folded by me, from an 8.5 inch square of bond paper, which was definitely not the best choice. I recommend a square of at least 8 inches, and definitely thinner/better for folding than printer paper.

As always, we would like to see any photos of Origami Weekly releases that you have folded. Don't hold back, show off your skills!

See you next week!

--Jared

Orchid Blossom, by Andrew Hudson

Orchid Blossom, by Andrew Hudson, originally uploaded by Origami Weekly.

It's week 9 here at Origami Weekly, and we've got a brand-new diagram for you. So new, in fact, that it's a day late because I had to finish it! It's got curved-surfaces, a three-dimensional folding process, and lots of referencing... And the collapse is a bit of a puzzle too, hard to diagram but I did my best.

Here are the diagrams:

dl.getdropbox.com/u/232756/orchidblossom.pdf

(and for those of you that have to know, this was wetfolded using 80-lb drawing paper manufactured by Blick Art Materials)