I'm making an origami thread because I can I hadn't thought about origami for a while but yesterday I found a stack of origami paper and have been making cats. and a puppy. and a fox but I can't find it now. they are adorable. and the cats and the dog are all matchy <3 I want to make more complicated stuff... look at this dragon!! i'm so glad that YouTube exists because i can't read origami diagrams for shit this documentary is pretty neat. or at least i thought it was way back when i watched it
I like origami a lot. It's the art of persistent rebirth. Your constructions are temporal. Very much so. And you're often doing the same patterns that someone else has done before you. But that doesn't make it any less artful than someone creating something entirely new (though entirely new is a debatable concept). You're giving birth to a form that has already existed before. Perfecting your technique. Joining hordes of others doing the same. It's both a mob and a phoenix. Origami is important. I myself mostly do modular stuff. Lots of little identical units that I combine together to make geometric shapes. I'm very fond of little turtle units in particular.
o shit I love origami... back in high school there was a super complex looking dragon pattern my classmate found and Got Good at. I managed the head but something about the legs was just totally incomprehensible, it was maddening. fake edit: managed to find the pattern, along with a lot of other cute dragons it's this guy!!! @iff that teeny dog is adorable, btw. and holy shit, modular geometric origami, what a good and pleasing variety of shapes. hey, has anyone ever found a good crab pattern? the ones I've found tend to be extremely boxy and 2D or else very much resembling a spider, which is not exactly what I need.
These things are fun to play with too! Because they're just so ridiculously flexible. Even the humble cube is sexy. And it is the jumping off point to chaos.
@devils-avocado ooooh what a long boy i like. the cat and the dog are from here i made so much origami in secondary school. so many cranes. so soothing i periodically tried to make this one pegasus from a book but could never make it past step 20/94 or so. it was the worst. i'm looking at the diagram and it still looks infuriating, in fact eta: this one @Aondeug those look so pleasing omg. I've never made any modular stuff even though it looks v much like my jam
An old elementary school teacher used to do a lot of origami, and ocassionally she would let us do it as a craft, especially around the holidays. We would make all these stars around christmas, and it was loads of fun. They were our christmas decorations for a long time after I left elementary school too. Now I never do it anymore.
/opens two dozen new tabs for origami ok so apparently it is NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE to find a diagram of this one 3D rose, somebody taught me how to make it IRL and every time I want to make a new one I have to gently unfold an existing one to figure it out again. there are probably some videos but I'm a diagram person at heart. that said, I kind of get why basically everyone illustrates this one with photos, it is kind of a hassle to explain. the version I make has the center pinched and twisted into a little spiral to line up with the petals. it seems like it's called the kawasaki rose, along with a bunch of really similar variations which are also pretty, but slightly to significantly different personal gripe: having to sort out which sites include or link to diagrams, and which sites host a bunch of finished-item photos with a billion tags and nothing else >:/ semi-realistic origami flowers are my weakness, I'm trying not to actively google 'origami orchids' until I go through all the open tabs I've already got
EASY ORIGAMI DRAGON I could maybe get used to this video thing (still wish there was a diagram for quick reference (the linked images are broken))
whoops my brain didn't let me post here for a while *belated maniacal laughter* My dad was really into kawasaki roses for a while. they're v pretty and look super realistic! (for, y'know, origami) anyway look at some stuff I made! and a large amount of intersecting tetrahedra with taped vertices because I'm not an origami wizard assembling it was at the same time a mindfuck and surprisingly easy. And fun I used this diagram ....now I want a smaller one (tiny origami ftw) fakeedit: @devils-avocado is this like your swirly rose? it looks neat fakeedit 2: there are a lot of rose variants
aww yeeeeee origamis <3 I am totally trying that dragon again, with like, sufficiently wide paper to ensure my sanity hey yeah, looks like it! something looks different about the underside, but the rest is identical. I like their pencilled-on landmarks and minimum necessary amount of precreasing (I was taught to really thoroughly precrease the paper, and in retrospect no wonder the landmarks are so hard to remember, lol)
in recent news, I spent a while wrestling with this maple leaf pattern thanks to an extremely helpful but very badly-lit video and I took a break near the end of part 3 when I literally could not see what type of fold they were doing, but it worked out somehow, and I will defeat this leaf someday
in today's origami spam news, have a tiny dragon :3 and a lil flying horsey, suck it, annoying diagram with confusing fake perspective this nice video was v helpful. i'm pretty sure it reorders the steps into sequences that make more sense, the actual diagram has wayyy too many curved lines for a thing made of folded paper i made it out of A3 paper and it still broke a bunch. what did you use in hs, because my high school origami was consistently in too small paper and this would have been particularly infuriating you'd think that such a simple looking thing wouldn't have so many steps, and yet in other news this class about origami math is neat and highly relevant to my interests, not sure about everyone elses xd
man I wanna get on y'all's level??? I usually do origami in lieu of fidget toys (and when teachers get >:| I very politely give them one and they Stop) so I've been sticking to Plain And Simple GOSH THOUGH the geometric and heavy fold ones look SO COOL
i used to do a origami orchids all the time, and i was big into cranes for a while i never got good at the more complex stuff and then i just stopped :/ but those look so cool i wanna try it out again
I HAVE CONQUERED THE MAPLE LEAF also, a dragon! Spoiler: img also ngl that looks more like a weed leaf than a maple
Guyyyyys guys guys HOW ARE YOU SO AWESOME I can do cranes, butterflies, lilies and also little two-winged cheat dragons which are really just cranes with a couple folds added on but hoooly shit Y'ALL ARE EXTRA AS FUCK I LOVE IT
Two different sizes of cheat dragons! I literally just make cranes, twist the tails, double-fold the heads and sometimes fold the wings into different positions XDD (The bigger one is some of my cheap geometric A4 origami paper, the little blue one is from a scrap of note-paper with a doodle that didn't work out. I like making failed drawings into origami, XDDD)
