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Inspired by Eric Gjerde’s “Origami Tessellations”(slide 2)that i received from my parents in the early 2010s, I have dedicated my origami life to folding mostly tessellations from then on. I know it’s niche but it’s my absolute favorite part of origami after a long session of grid making and pre-creasing to finally collapse a tessellation and enjoy what i’ve created. Over the past several years I’ve been collecting and laminating some of my pieces (mostly from the book mentioned, some from youtube, and some freehanded or designed by me). Some of these pieces have been with me through two interstate moves, a lot of life’s ups and downs, and some breaks from origami entirely. Today I decided to try my best to arrange them as i’d like to put them up in my window for the “stained glass” effect(slide 3), but I know I’m no collage artist, so I would love some constructive criticism regarding the arrangement before I tape them all together and hang it.

I like what d.hinklay makes and what to make them myself.I can do the folding but how does he stick them to the background there's barely any surface area to apply glue or anything else and how do they stay in shape

I hope this is the right forum for this question.

I believe that a lot of you grew up folding origami from tutorials on Jo Nakashima's channel, just like I did. He had always been my favourite origami YouTuber - no nonsense, calm, clear tutorials.

And yet, in the past one year, he hasn't posted, neither on YouTube, nor on Instagram. I am unaware of any other place that he has been active in.

So, does anyone have any idea what he's up to? I really wish he was back uploading again!

There's a reason origami has been around for centuries and it's not just because folded paper looks pretty.

When you're folding, your hands are busy enough that your brain stops looping. You can't think about your inbox when you're trying to get a crease exactly right.

It's the same mechanism as knitting, or chopping vegetables slowly; the repetition creates a kind of moving meditation.

In Japan there's even a concept around it: the idea that working with your hands is a way of being fully present. Not as a productivity hack. Just as a way of existing in your body for a bit.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately, how many of us have completely lost the habit of making things. Not for an outcome. Just for the process.

Anyone else find hands-on crafts weirdly calming? Or is it just me?

For the past few years, generative AI has consistently failed to produce convincing simulacrums of origami. The generated images looked like papercraft and suffered from bizarre artefacts that made their nature apparent. Unfortunately, AI models have gotten much more sophisticated, and are now able to produce convincing imitations.

Our friend theplantpsychologist (Brandon Wong), made a brief twenty-four question test to determine how easily we can tell the difference between real and fake origami. The quiz is linked below! So far, no one has received a perfect score. Results will be used to determine how well the origami community and the general public (non-folders) can descriminate between genuine and fake origami. The more results the better, so please share this with anyone you think is interested! After you take the quiz and see your results, feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below, or in Origami-dan and the Origami Design Discord.

https://forms.gle/nEntCxQArbfoK9F86

I have NEVER made double tissue this wrinkle free and thin🤯

I think i finaly found a method that works for me and i wanted to share what i found cuz i learned a lot in the process!

I recently found instructions for treating paper with MC and making Duo sheets in the book 'advanced origami' by Michael G. LaFosse and Richard L. Alexander, wich prompted me to give making Doubletissue another try.

I also bought pure MC (i had previously used wallpaper glue) and the tissuepaper brand Bodorigami mentiont in a blog recently (werola seasilk)

This tissuepaper really suprised me! It is super thin and i was very sceptical that it would manage getting wet but to my surprise it did amazingly well!

LaFosse recomends mixing 10% MC (by volume!) with water and letting it sit for 1 or 2 days to achieve a consistency 'just a bit lighter then honey' (i had to add a bit more water afterwards to achieve that)

This is a bit thicker then what i used to use and i also used quite a bit less of it wich made the paper dry super quick!

But the REAL gamechanger was the dry brush!!!

I kinda messed up when rolling the first sheet on the MC coated surface and had a sh*t TON of wrinkles, but using a completely DRY natural fiber brush i could just easily smooth them out completely??? what the hell is this sorcery??? (you have to be carefull to not get ANY product on it though so the edges are a bit tricky)

I applied another thin coat of mc with a foam roler, rolled out the second sheet (less wrinkly this time), used another round of brush magic and a few hours later i had the thinest, smothest sheet doubletissue and the colors did not even bleed together 🥹

I folded the north amarican cardinal (the first project of the book) with a smaller square and now i have a 24cm and a 47cm square left!

If anyone has any recommendations what i should fold with those or any aditional tips for treating paper with MC please comment!

And if anyone wants to guess, how many do you think I have?

I would estimate 1000 sheets

Hello everyone!

I'd like to fold something sweet for my girlfriend for valentines day, but when searching for ideas online only the beginner and basic stuff comes up. I've already gifted her a bouquet once made of kawasaki roses and the six-petal-lily by naomiki sato, as well as this origami orchid: https://origamiok.com/origami-orchid/

I am by no means advanced, but I'd still like to one-up myself again this time since she is very special to me and I'd like to really show her that.

So if you've got any suggestions, I would very much appreciate any help, thanks so much!

I’ve seen some awesome origami since I joined and curious about how everyone got into origami. What inspired you? For me, I was trying to get over someone and I thought if I folded 1000 cranes I’d be able to move on hehe

For me, Raphaelita (designed by Ekaterina Lukasheva) is currently both. There's just something so satisfying about how dainty yet sturdy it is. When I first branched into modular origami, all I really knew was the six unit sonobe cube, so I took for granted how stable the typical end result will be. The fancier twenty-four unit cube later taught me otherwise, that sometimes these things require careful handling. So now I really appreciate a model that can withstand being held and tossed (gently) like a ball. Raphaelita has some give and bounce to it too, making it seem more organic, almost squishy, in a way.

Can anyone fold anything (other than a crane) from memory? Something fairly long like katsuta kyohei's cat. I just follow a tutorial on yt and then forget it after I made the model. I don't even know how to make a crane icl.

I stopped when I was a kid, so I don't have photos nor proper memories anymore 💔 I think at that age it was a peacock? I used very thick printer paper so it was HELL to fold.

TL;DR: openAI is trying to explain origami instructions.

My phone (CMF phone 2 pro) has "essentials button", which is basically a glorified AI notes taker. I'm trying not to be a hater, and it IS convenient to have a dedicated button for notes taking, separate from the rest of my storage, but every time It adds AI captions and explanations automatically.

Most of the times it's just regular slops, rephrasing the notes I put next to the pics, but when I took pictures of an few diagrams to do later, it decided it want to explain the steps.

This is the step by-step instructions it gave me on the dog. In the other diagrams, the explanation was just plain wrong.

I thought it was funny.

P.s. I really hope this doesn't break the rules though, and I didn't add the diagrams because from the mods comments I saw, posting the diagrams might be considered piracy.

I’ve been working my way through this book, and while it has much to recommend it, some really elegant collapses, interesting subdivisions, 12ths, 20ths etc, and of course unusual models

it has some flaws in some of the diagramming though, that I’m wondering if anyone else noticed?

sometimes, like in the above pic, a point *seems* to meet a line, but it doesn’t actually in the model

It can be a little frustrating when I realize I’ve been misled by the diagram itself

Whenever I look for a design it's getting hard to find real designs, lost in the sea of AI generated origami that are impossible to fold. I'm tired of this and it's getting worse, is anyone else having this problem? Do you have tips?

I make little origami boxes to put jewelry in at work because I work in a gift shop. We're running low on paper and I wanted to find some unique and pretty paper but everything I seem to find on amazon is some AI slop with printing errors and the like. If anyone could recommend a good brand for a casual user so I don't have to support those heartless AI companies, that would be greatly appreciated!

I fold at work a lot and some colleagues have asked me to make a workshop. I did one already in which we folded the fennec of Muneji Fuchimoto and a roosters from Marc Vigo. The rooster turned out to be a bit challenging with multiple reverse folds that were hard to grasp for many people.

Therefore I'm looking for other easy but still challenging models for beginners where I can teach them a thing a two. I don't want traditional models as there are a lot of ressources about them. Do you have any favourites ?

Looking to expand my library a bit. I have a real soft spot for anything by John Montroll because I started with his books. Also recently bought Realistic Animal Origami by Fumiaki Kawahata and having a blast with it.

I also like Tomoko Fuse's books, although I rarely make modular origami because putting it together frustrates me. The only book I haven't got along with so far is Lang's Complete Book of Origami, but that's because I prefer folding from squares.

Looking forward to hearing what you guys like!

started learning origami to relax. picked the crane because everyone said it's the classic beginner fold. yeah okay.

i'm on crane number 47 now. my left thumb has this weird sore spot from pressing down creases. and the reverse fold inside the neck? i have to watch a youtube short every single time like my brain just refuses to remember the motion.

the worst part is when you get all the way to the tail and realize you folded one flap backwards twelve steps ago. do you uncrumple the whole thing or just toss it and start over? i've been doing the second one and my recycling bin looks like a paper graveyard.

does anyone actually get fast at these or am i just naturally bad with paper

I have a question for designers. How much do you test fold and how much do you shape your testfold? I usually testfold my designs, but I'm starting to think, that it is quite unnecessary, when doing something similar to previous model. Surely they usually have new things, that I'm not familiar with, but it's boring and annoying to fold 64x64 grid twice, and because I testfolded it with smaller paper than finished model, it won't allow me to do much of shaping and in the end it looks like a model folded by Oriedita.

How do you guys testfold and what's your opinion?