Flying crane
A response to a request I got over Christmas. Now, there’s already plenty of these out there by many other designers, but when you’re out in the wild, with no internet connection in sight, you’ll need to improvise.
Flying crane, top and side view
The crease pattern for this is quite simple – unlike animals or insects, this guy has only two legs. The wings are formed from an elongated rectangle rather than a square; the pleated paper is spread out to form texture on the wings. Grid is 24×24.
Square packing
Partial CP
Full CP
It’s a pretty flexible crease pattern, and the final model can be posed in many other ways. The positioning of the tail near the centre of the paper also shifts the centre of gravity of the model more or less right over the legs, so minor adjustments, the model can stand on both feet with quite a bit of stability.
January 7th, 2007 at 9:47 am
nice! nice nice!
January 22nd, 2007 at 3:31 am
A very nice design
http://www.thekhans.me.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=19242#19242
January 22nd, 2007 at 4:37 am
Nice! It’s the dratted beak again; the interior flap makes it too thick and hard to narrow down into something that looks more like a crane than a goose.
January 27th, 2007 at 11:16 am
No Problem, I like my goose
February 20th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Very nice crane
Heres my messy crane: http://www.thekhans.me.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=20310#20310
February 21st, 2007 at 5:52 am
Nice goose.
March 4th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
Great design! Could you tell me which color means mountain and which means valley folds on the CP?
March 4th, 2007 at 11:24 pm
Thanks.
I don’t use a mountain-valley colour convention; the CP just shows the creases of the base. Take a look at Gerwin’s guide to box pleated CPs, it has plenty of tips on how to collapse such CPs, without having to know which crease is a mountain or valley beforehand.
June 10th, 2007 at 11:08 am
Fantastic design!
Here’s my rendition with fancy stand ; )
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~benj1/ben/images/origami/flying_crane.jpg
How did you get the neck and legs so narrow? More sinks? The printing paper I used wasn’t very friendly about my attempts to do any narrowing.
June 10th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Nice, love the stand.
The paper I used here is mulberry, it’s soft and thin, so it’s relatively easy to narrow, particularly when wet or MC-folded.
May 7th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
hello my name is jose and I am interested to know that your program doing cps
May 8th, 2009 at 6:38 am
Hi Jose,
I’m using CadStd to do the CPs; it’s available at http://www.cadstd.com.