EZ Tessellation - Evan Zodl

EZ Tessellation - Evan Zodl, originally uploaded by Origami Weekly.

This week we have Evan Zodl's EZ Tessellation. Nice wordplay.

You might say these are full diagrams for a simple tessellation. Sorry Evan, I had no need for a tessellation with your initials :) That is one of the cool features of this design. Its customizability. I've changed it to the initials OW for Origami Weekly.

EZ Tessellation - Evan Zodl

You can also fold up the panels in the back similarly.

For a neat effect, try rotating the paper before pulling up the panels, and instead, bringing them down.

It looks pretty cool backlit too, but you need to do the mirror image.

Banana, by Andrew Hudson

Banana, by Andrew Hudson, originally uploaded by Origami Weekly.

I designed this a couple weeks ago when I got my hands on some yellow paper, and then realized that I didn't have anything to fold with it... Naturally, a banana came to mind, so I tried my hand at designing one and I think it came out pretty well! This model is best when wetfolded from thick-ish paper. I used two sheets of letter paper glued together, and folded while the glue was still wet.

Diagrams here.

Flower - Anna Kastlunger

Flower - Anna Kastlunger, originally uploaded by Origami Weekly.

This week we have Anna Kastlunger's Flower. She designed it for the Origami Forum's 30 folds or less challenge. It doesn't have too many folds, but every one counts. And it's got a lot of tension holding it together.

Flower - Anna Kastlunger

Folded from a 15 cm of patterned washi paper. Yep, you can even fold it with that stuff!

Dual Decagrams, by Andrew Hudson

Dual Decagrams, by Andrew Hudson, originally uploaded by Origami Weekly.

This model borrows some concepts from John McKeever's Stellations of the Dodecagon. This is one of the first times I've drawn diagrams for something with such a complex color-change pattern, and it was an interesting challenge to draw something with intermeshed layers like this in a program that only supports stacked layers.

Anyway, I was thinking about it and I realized that I spent more time diagramming this model than I did designing and folding it-- which may be a first for me, usually I fold it at least twice before diagramming it.

Diagrams here:
dl.getdropbox.com/u/232756/decagrams.pdf

Leafhopper, by Ryan Welsh

Leafhopper, by Ryan Welsh, originally uploaded by Origami Weekly.

This week we've got another model from Ryan Welsh, and it's the first insect we've featured so far. I have to say, I really enjoyed folding this model; he uses the wonderful coincidences of eightfold symmetry to great effect.

Diagrams here.

Hiroshima Crane, by Andrew Hudson

Hiroshima Crane, by Andrew Hudson, originally uploaded by Origami Weekly.

The anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings were this week, and so we're releasing diagrams for a crane variation today. It's a little simpler than our usual fare, but it's elegant and, I think, still quite an interesting model.

Diagrams here. Some advice: step 18 and 20 will be easier if you use a pencil or toothpick to help squash the layers inside the flap.

Dollar Bill Rabbit, by Seth Friedman

Dollar Bill Rabbit, by Seth Friedman, originally uploaded by Origami Weekly.

Seth posted a photo of this model, and soon after there was a request on the Origami Forum for someone to reverse-engineer it. Being the r/e junkie I am, I gave it a shot, and got pretty close, so I asked Seth if I could post a CP, and he said yes! So here it is. Thank you, Seth!

Diagrams (well, a progressive crease pattern) are right here.

*UPDATE* Google has blacklisted parts of the file hosting service I use to post the diagrams. I've moved this one over to a separate part of their server and it seems to be working, but just to let you all know-- it's not my content that's causing the warning, the whole files.getdropbox.com subdomain has been blocked. The people at dropbox are doing everything they can to fix the issue, and if it's not resolved soon, I'll switch to a new hosting service for the .pdf diagrams.