Several elegant locks and the possibility of variations distinguish this delightful fish.
This is the first-ever published guide to fractal folding. If you find Ushio, give him John’s message.
An origami version of a newly discovered solution to a longstanding geometric problem.
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An Icosidodecahedron with sunken triangular faces based on a simple unit. Made from 12 pentagons, it is definitely meant for people who like challenges!
Clover Heart 4 is the fourth and final model in a series of Clover Hearts published in consecutive issues of The Fold. This one has the proportionately smallest clover.
Learn to fold Clover Heart 3, the third in a series of designs by Meenakshi Mukerji.
Learn how to fold a heart decorated with a clover. Or take it a step further and fold the clover into
Shuzo Fujimoto’s hydrangea.
A crease pattern and notes for folding a delightful heart with a color-change clover. Designed by Meenakshi Mukerji, it's a confluence of the works of Shuzo Fujimoto and Francis Ow. The clover can be extended into Fujimoto's Hydrangea as well as most designs that start with a four-sink base or crossed box pleat.
The IOIO is one of the largest international origami events in the world. If you want to understand what makes 550 contestants from 57 countries so excited, read along!
For those late night hours, when you want to keep on folding, but your mind is at a mental retention limit. I want to share my incomplete list of origami games for your paper enjoyment.
A progressive crease pattern for a box-pleated house with latticed windows by Clifford Jones.
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This time Francesco presents us with 3D puzzle. Can you make a pyramid out of those building blocks?
Once again, a classic puzzle is origamized. Using building blocks from a trapezium there are many figures you must try to assemble, one of which is a four times larger Trapezium!
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This time it is a two-in-one combo! Making L shape units, you are challenged to either fit them in a flat box, or make a cube!
So sharpen your fingernails as well as your wits!
With so many readers responding with surprising solutions, we had to collect and show them to you! Look inside only if you have tried to solve the Heart puzzle!
An unusual origami puzzle that is based on Kami, using the white side to challenge you - can you a make a white square from these four units?
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Another chapter in the origami puzzles series. This time you have to fit four Zs and an H together to form a cube. But first you have to fold them!
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A report on the first International Winter Origami Exchange.
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Another chapter in the origami puzzles series. This time you have to fit four Zs in a square box, but first you have to fold them!
The second installment of our 2012 convention newsletter, bringing a taste of the New York OrigamiUSA Annual Convention to everyone, twice!
A description of the history, expansion, and future of World Origami Days.
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Report from the Oversized Folding event from convention 2011.
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A challenge to fold a cat out of a chopstick wrapper during the 2011 OrigamiUSA convention.
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A summary and reflections on OrigaMIT's 2011 Student Origami Competition by judge and alumna Elsa Chen, MIT '89.
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Crease pattern, diagrams, and design notes for a convertible created for a car design challenge.
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At the recent 5OSME convention, an impromptu challenge involved incorporating a "nonexistent" fold, the origami hypar, into definitely existent origami models.