A comparison of two variants of Fractalized Petals CFW 85: one with consistent rotation direction for all levels and
one with alternating rotation directions.
A box shaped like a tulip, just the right subject before the origami convention in Eindhoven (Netherlands).
Plot twist: you may have missed the fact it’s act...
This star by Shuzo Fujimoto is a modification of Handle (CFW 133),
the difference being that there is no hexagonal backdrop around the central star. The same...
Another fold of Fujimoto’s Crowding Butterflies, or in other words, level-1 Hydrangea
Tessellation, that I made in 2021 for a cooperation with the late Meena...
Framed Heart is one of my few designs which I have folded over and over multiple times (most designs end up being
folded only a single time before I move on ...
A pattern of hexagons, rectangles, and triangles, folded from a hex grid. In order to make the model more interesting, I skipped some molecules, which result...
Lucky Star Fractal, level 3, folded from dark green Tant paper.
This model is so nice I’ve folded it probably dozens of times (which rarely happens) and each...
I folded this tessellation for a collaboration with the late Meenakshi Mukerji. I would fold some simple tessellation
bases on which her designs were based a...
This star by Shuzo Fujimoto demonstrates a general technique which I labeled CFW 422. Here, it is combined with the
simplest of Fujimoto’s basic stars, Windm...
This star by Shuzo Fujimoto is only mentioned in textual form: there isn’t even a picture in Fujimoto’s books. It
consists of the molecule of Hemp Leaf (CFW ...
I developed Shuzo Fujimoto’s design, Petals (CFW 85) into a fractal.
I don’t have direct proof if Fujimoto was aware of this possibility, but I think it’s li...
I developed Shuzo Fujimoto’s design, Petals (CFW 85) into a fractal.
I don’t have direct proof if Fujimoto was aware of this possibility, but I think it’s li...
You can make your tessellations more interesting by warping them into various shapes using wet folding.
This Square Interlace Tessellation with curled corner...
Another star by Shuzo Fujimoto which is not even depicted in his books, just mentioned in text. It uses rays from
Handle (CFW 133), but the tessellation mole...
A modification of my Sol, adding a color-change background to the tessellation molecule. The gold-blue Washi
looks in real life even better than in the pictu...
This is variant B of my Framed Heart. Just like the original, it consists of a tessellation molecule placed
inside a frame folded from the same sheet of pape...
This star by Shuzo Fujimoto uses the same rays as his Handle (CFW 133)
but the tessellation molecule is that of Hemp Leaf (CFW 88), same as independently cre...
The outline of this star is made using the same technique as various Star a la Fujimoto variants.
The decoration in the center is a tessellation molecule tha...
This star consists of a CFW 91 molecule folded in the center of a hexagon with 6×6×6 grid, giving it
additional rays around the molecule. This work is folded...
This was my first clean fold of Shuzo Fujimoto’s CFW 106 star, from a sheet of printed Washi
I received courtesy of Satoko Saito for the Year of the Ox. Unfo...
A comparison of two folds of CFW 106 side by side: one from patterned Washi and the other
from plain color Tant. Patterned paper, though very nice, made it i...
I found out that Shuzo Fujimoto’s molecule used in his CFW 91 star,
can be changed into a fractal. By pulling some paper outside in the center, you can get a...
In this variant, the rays are layered “one on top of the other” rather than “every other one in a different layer”. This changes the appearance of the front
...
This tessellation is based on a hex grid but the symmetry of molecules is triangular. This is also the reason the whole model is not a fully symmetric hexago...
This star, designed by Shuzo Fujimoto, has untypically shaped rays which make it look like the handle of an old tap.
CFW 174 is a minor variant of CFW 133.
This year’s model of the Star of Bethlehem for Epiphany is based on my Star of David I molecule.
The model as a whole is very similar to Epiphany III, the di...
This model belongs to a series inspired by the work of Shuzo Fujimoto. The outer edge is made with a general technique
I devised that can be combined with di...
This is a recursive version of Shuzo Fujimoto’s Scissors (CFW 87). I wanted to call it Biohazard Fractal
since it resembles the biohazard symbol, but later d...
This is another fold of Scissors Fractal, a recursive model I derived from Shuzo Fujimoto’s
Scissors (CFW 87). In this fold, the direction each level rotates...
This star by Fujimoto is basically the same thing as CFW 87
but folded from a 6×6×6 grid, which results in more paper around the central molecule and a diffe...
While my first fold of this variant was from a 16×16 grid, this one is from 32×32, which produces many
more molecules and better shows how squares of two siz...
I came up with this design due to folding lots of stars by Shuzo Fujimoto recently. Since this is not the first time
new ideas pop up based on his works (thi...
A star by Shuzo Fujimoto. The front looks as if woven from mutually intersecting triangles while the back is rather
plain.
A very similar model, CFW 120 loo...
This star by Fujimoto is broadly speaking a level-2 Lucky Star Fractal
folded from a slightly smaller hexagon so that there is less paper available on the ba...
This star would have been simple to fold were it not for the final folds that create the small hexagon in the center. These folds on each side should be
perf...
My Framed Heart, folded from the rare red Elephant Hide paper in late 2019.
The heart can be tessellated, but I haven’t folded it this way in practice yet.
A star from square twist that uses a similar technique as the Dahlia for shaping the petals.
It can be seen as a single molecule of Propellers Tessellation (...
This tessellation differs from most other designs by having lower rotational symmetry: only 180° rather than the 60° typical
for tessellations based on a hex...
Decorating Easter Eggs is a popular Easter tradition in Poland, Ukraine, and other Slavic countries. This one is folded from
a single sheet of paper rather t...
In the description of my recent Hydrangea Tessellation fold, I mentioned that I had recently
experimented with different variants of the “leaves” which form ...
Believe it or not, over all these years of folding tessellations, I never folded a clean tiling of Fujimoto’s Hydrangea.
I recently decided to make up for th...
Another fold of Shuzo Fujimoto’s Hydrangea. I’ve kept two outermost leaf layers free of unnecessary creases.
For deeper layers, it becomes much harder.
This model, which includes tessellation elements, has a 3×3 field of squares which reminds me of a tic-tac-toe game board. The pattern is based on
Square Pix...
This design is my modification of Shuzo Fujimoto’s Hydrangea. Despite the change being very minor, it allows
the model to be shaped in a more three-dimension...
A variant of Pythagorean Tiling with 1:1 size ratio between the sides of the two types of squares.
This effectively makes the pattern uniform (all squares ar...
Ten level-3 Lucky Star Fractals, folded from metallic paper
in different colors. This is just a small subset of how many times I have folded this model over ...
Model folded from transparent book wrapping fold which shows the internal structure of the model in an interesting way.
Have a look at the detailed review of...
This model is just a tessellation of Crossed Box Pleats: the back side which you see here is the Crowding Butterflies model by Shuzo Fujimoto.
You can notice...
My idea behind this tessellation was designing something easy to learn for beginners but at the same to make it reasonably well looking. The models I have us...
This model is the same as the first Pythagorean Tiling variant I folded, but the side length ratio
of big squares to small squares is 3:2 instead of 2:1.
As ...
The pattern this origami tessellation represents is known as Pythagorean Tiling or Two Squares Tessellation.
I came up with this design independently, but it...
This rendition of the Star of Bethlehem is based on the same general idea as Epiphany III, but made to better
resemble an actual comet. It features a double ...
Ben Goldberger is an interesting origami artist from Israel whom I had the opportunity to meet at CDO Convention 2018.
You should definitely check out his wo...
This model is a variant of the Lucky Star Fractal (aka Logarithmic Star), designed by myself and
independently by many others before me, starting with Shuzo ...
Another attempt at folding the subject of Star of Bethlehem, this time using the Lucky Star molecule
(invented independently with Fujimoto, Haligami and many...
A level-3 fold of Lucky Star Fractal, this time from gray metallic paper.
I rarely fold a model multiple times, but this particular model is so nice I have f...
This is a recursive version of the Lucky Star molecule. Just like the non-recursive version,
it can be tessellated or used for decorating a box. The back of ...
This is a modification of my Sunflower Tessellation. The molecules (“sunflower seeds”) are flatter
and the petals are shorter. The back side is also more int...
This model shows how the basic molecule of my Sunflower Tessellation can be modified in order to
rearrange the direction the individual “seeds” are pointing....
It took me 1½ years before I decided to fold my Sunflower Tessellation once again, this time from
rare yellow Elephant Hide paper. I think this is a better ...
Rhombus Fractal, an origami tessellation designed by Endre Somos (and independently also by Joel Cooper and by Wei Fu),
folded by me. You may also find inter...
This is Her Majesty’s Tessellation (own design) folded from a 64×64 diagonally rotated grid.
The spacing between molecules is less dense than in the 32×32 gr...
A side-by-side comparison of Shuzo Fujimoto’s Clover Folding (left) and my own
Clover Folding Lookalike (right). Front and back sides are shown (top and bott...
This is my design which at first glance looks very similar to Shuzo Fujimoto’s Clover Folding
but has a completely different crease pattern and design.
I hadn’t folded Shuzo Fujimoto’s Clover Folding for at least two years when I decided to fold one again
after seeing some examples beautifully folded by John...
A slight modification of my Framed Two-in-One Flower, with a color-changed frame.
The colour change is very simple: basically, in the first step the paper is...
A modification of my earlier Propellers Tessellation. The blazing propeller also resembles a whirlpool
or a tropical cyclone. 14×14 grid per molecule, 48×48 ...
Flower Tessellation, designed by Meenakshi Mukerji. The molecule is derived from the
Crossed Box Pleat (CBP). I folded and photographed this model for Meenak...
A color-change variant of Shuzo Fujimoto’s Hydrangea, designed by Meenakshi Mukerji.
Test fold based on unpublished diagrams, kindly provided by Meenakshi [u...
Folding Stars and Squares Tessellation from a diagonal grid (rotated 45°) leads to
an interesting effect. At the edges, small triangles form, creating a jagg...
Stacked molecules of my Hearts Tessellation. This model is a fractal, and you can go on stacking heart
upon heart indefinitely, each twice as large as the pr...
This Leafless Hydrangea model is a simple modification of Shuzo Fujimoto’s Hydrangea. It’s interesting
how a simple change can modify a model’s appearance. J...
This is a minimalistic version of my Sunflower Tessellation, folded from a 16×16 grid.
It consists of just a single molecule surrounded by petals, and thus c...
Yet another variant of framed molecule of my Two-in-One Flower Tessellation.
Molecule and frame folded from a single sheet of Satogami paper (16×16 grid).
Another variant (Variant 2) of framed molecule of my Two-in-One Flower Tessellation.
Molecule and frame folded from a single sheet of Satogami paper (16×16 g...
I refolded my Sprout Tessellation for the German Origami Convention in Erkner. Asymmetry and folding the grid
at an angle relative to paper edges are inspire...
The molecule is 6×6 grid units, so normally 3×3 molecules would require an 18×18 grid. Since folding power-of-two grids is much more convenient than others,
...
I designed this tiling of Shuzo Fujimoto’s Clover Folding after I saw the
tiling by Peter Budai and thought it would be better to make the borders between mo...