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A street lamp

From two squares. The lamp is a standard waterbomb base, while the stand is based on David Brill’s bolt design.

A slightly modified version of an earlier model, and hopefully more anatomically accurate. The dorsal fin has been shifted towards the rear; this also frees up more room to allow for pleats with which to form the armoured body of the fish.


Didn’t we see this before?

As the crease pattern shows, the strip graft for the dorsal fin has been shifted out of the centre of the bird base molecule. The tail has also been lengthened slightly, with the unfortunate result that a division by 9ths is required to locate the landmarks:


Crease pattern

If someone’s profession depended upon darkness and shadows, he’d be using camo paint and rubbing his swords with carbon soot. Really, what was the point of sneaking around, and then whipping out a shiny blade everytime you met an enemy?


DFA

Well okay, I was just too lazy to backcoat two sheets of paper together. Same thing with the precreasing, which is why the crease pattern for this ninja is derived from a 16×16 grid. This means, of course, that a lot of flap narrowing is needed once the base is collapsed, just to get the aspect ratios of the various parts right.



Square packing and crease pattern

The best part about meeting this drow in Baldur’s Gate is offing him, and then greyhawking him.


I can haz chunky salsa?

The panther is an old design of mine that’s been sitting around for a year or two:


Panther crease pattern

The crease pattern for the drow is based on a 48×48 grid:


Drow crease pattern

On hindsight, placing the arm/sword flaps at the edge wasn’t such a great idea, as it produced an excessive number of paper layers. It’s a nice and strong flap that stays up, but rather annoying and unwieldy to shape.

Much like in nature, there exists an inordinate number of origami insects today; right down to the point where it’s no longer sufficient to label them simply as some beetle or other, but instead by names like Acanthosoma labiduroides or Ordinatrum mendum. The same, sadly, isn’t true of many other orders of life.

So, in an effort to correct this imbalance, here’s a representative from the phylum Chordata – a little Eurypegasus draconis:


In its natural habitat


Without the benefit of camouflage

The crease pattern for this was primarily composed of grafts. Exercise for the reader: can you spot them all?


Crease Pattern

Still far from perfect though – the proportions (particularly the placement of the dorsal fin) needs some fine tuning.