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The story of the new file download sales section of The Origami Source.
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The analysis of a geometric construction for 1/3, and other fractions.
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Learn to fold a family of modular units that can create a wide variety of deltahedra, polyhedra whose faces are equilateral triangles.
Learn the story behind the Google Doodle for March 14, 2012, which honored Akira Yoshizawa, and fold your own Google logo.
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A pleated cone sliced by multiple planes creates this geometric model reminiscent of a breaking wave.
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A rotationally symmetric geometric shape, folded from a hexagon, based on Jeannine Mosely's "Bud".
In this next article of my video creation guide we'll bring it all together by editing the recorded, raw material to create the final video.
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Design and folding instructions for one of the 54 polypolyhedra using dollar bills.
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Download PDF diagrams for folding this Palaeozoic armoured jawless fish.
This article presents different ideas on how to publicize origami books online. These tips are useful for authors, but can partly also be applied by origami enthusiasts wishing to support creators - and thus ensure books continue to be published.
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I compare super-thin insect papers from the grand masters of Origamido Studio and the newcomers from Columbus, Ohio: Paper Circle, and their new "O-gami" brand of handmade paper to fold a demanding spider (CP provided as well).
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Explore hex pleating further with this long- and variable-length-legged spider design.
Peter Engel's newest book picks up where <i>Origami from Angelfish to Zen</i> in his explorations of pattern, form, and meaning within origami.
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This crease pattern introduces a new form of uniaxial base design, called <i>hex pleating</i> and describes how to use technique technique.
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Follow the design of this uniaxial box-pleated design from start to finished, fully assigned crease pattern. Then try your hand at folding it.
This book of mostly intermediate work contains 30 superb designs.
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This complex design, from a square, uses a mix of 30 and 22.5 degree symmetries.