Colour changing fun: the Zergling
Since I had some duo coloured paper left after an earlier folding session, I figured it might be fun to do another colour-changed model. The Zergling has been one subject I’ve always wanted to attempt for a while, so here’s a good opportunity to do so. There’s various places where a colour change can be put to use – front/hind claws, the side horns, the scythe claws and perhaps the teeth.
Since we’ll have to turn some paper inside out to get a colour change, this means that any flaps involved in the colour change would need to be placed at the sides of the square. This will leave a lot of empty space within the centre of the square, but fortunately, the zergling has got quite a bit of structure – nice armour plates – on its back to suck up all that space!
Packing all that into the square, we get the following pattern:
Square Packing
There’s quite a bit of empty space left which requires some filler molecules, but it’s no big deal. The grid is 48×48 – a bit large, but still manageable. Here’s the partial and full crease patterns:
Partial and full crease patterns
And the final folded model:
Folded Zergling
August 13th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
Very nice design, I like it and the colourchanges are very well placed as well
August 23rd, 2006 at 8:03 am
As in Zergling from Star Craft? Nice model
December 15th, 2007 at 12:07 am
how do you make it? i have been searching around for how to make a zergling origami. can u send it to tjmaxx0616@hotmail.com? plz?
May 21st, 2008 at 6:06 pm
i saw a different angle of a zergling in the book,they have by far a bigger zerg shield then that =\