Heading into 2024
Per my personal tradition of designing a New Year’s model each year, here’s one for 2024. This is my first origami design folded from Dragon Hide paper (copp...
Orange
Pictures of models colored orange.
Gear (CFW 179) (hexagonal)
This star by Shuzo Fujimoto has flat-capped teeth rather than sharp rays. Back side has a color change. It is possible to fold this design from a hexagon (as...
Star with Unicursal Hexagram
This star is decorated with a molecule of my Unicursal Hexagram Tessellation. The color-change rays are the same as in Star a la Fujimoto.
Star a la Fujimoto III (orange art nouveau paper)
Star a la Fujimoto III is a great way to showcase patterned papers, in this case an art nouveau themed gift wrapping paper.
Zinnia (CFW 196)
This star by Shuzo Fujimoto exhibits hexagonal symmetry and a color change. Basic Zinnia is CFW 196 while CFW 187 is a variant with differently shaped petals...
Pentagonal Star from A4 (CFW 194)
This design by Shuzo Fujimoto is a regular pentagram star. It uses a single cut in addition to folding.
Scissors Fractal
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...
Comparison of Scissors Fractal Variants — alternating and consistent rotation direction
A comparison of two variants of Scissors Fractal: one with consistent rotation direction for all levels and one with alternating rotation directions.
Chrysanthemum (CFW 142)
Shuzo Fujimoto’s star with twelve rays, folded from a hexagon. See Maple Leaf (CFW 149) for a counterpart folded from a square and a list of variants made fr...
Seal of a Secret Society
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...
Hex Twist Star (CFW 104)
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...
Screw Propeller
This Rosette variant resembles a screw propeller like those found on ships.
Windmill from Square (CFW 81)
One of the simplest among Fujimoto’s stars. This design is folded from a square, but only a hexagonal part of it is used (this technique is CFW 414). CFW 84 ...
Woven Triangles Tessellation VII
Folded from Nicolas Terry Tissue Foil for its good memory and thinness. The glittery texture looks very nice in real life, but makes the model difficult to p...
Hydrangea Basic Form A variant 1
A very simple variant of Fujimoto’s Hydrangea, which does not seem to be popular among folders so far.
Maltese Rosette
This variant of Rosette is called Maltese Rosette because the outline of its “petals” resembles a Maltese cross. In contrast to the plain Rosette, which is 3...
Crowding Butterflies (diagonal 48 grid)
In the description of my recent Hydrangea Tessellation fold, I mentioned that I had recently experimented with different variants of the “leaves” which form ...
Shifted Bricks (16×16 grid)
This fold of Shifted Bricks is folded from a full 16×16 grid, so you can see grid lines on the bricks. Such a smaller version is what we can fold during work...
Chain (CBU)
When I was little, it was common for kids to make paper chains as Christmas tree decoration (łańcuch na choinkę). These chains were made by cutting colored p...
Carrot
Another shaping variant of Ice Cream model, this time resembling a carrot. Using white+green color combination instead of orange+green will get you parsley i...
Pajarita
The Pajarita (little bird in Spanish) is one of European traditional origami models, especially popular in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries.
Pythagorean Tiling with 3:2 Ratio
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 ...
Allegro IPO
Yesterday, my employer, Allegro, went public in what was Poland’s largest IPO so far and Europe’s largest this year. Hopefully, the charts continue growing a...
Onion Tessellation
The base for this tessellation is identical to one of the intermediate steps of folding Lucky Star Tessellation and seems to be something Tomek Siwak also ca...
Star Boreas
An octagonal modular star. Own design, folded from Harmony paper.
Egg Cup
This very simple model is folded from an equilateral triangle, and based on a pattern which corresponds to the hypar but on a triangle grid. You can use this...
Star Ananke (variant D) with Angels
This is the back side of Star Ananke (variant D). The basic variant (A) was designed independently by myself and by others before me: Wei Fu, and Robin Glynn...
Star Ananke (variant C)
A modification (variant C) of Star Ananke. The basic variant (A) was designed independently by myself and by others before me: Wei Fu, and Robin Glynn (with ...
Simple Woven Rhombi Box
A simple origami box, based on my Woven Rhombi Tessellation. Folded from a sheet of unique paper with a subtle floral motif, whose name I do not know.
Twist Again Tessellation
This origami tessellation combines elements from some of my other models. While reading Robert Lang’s tessellation book, I realized that many molecules can b...
Latin Cross Tessellation
An origami tessellation for Good Friday. The basic structure of the Latin cross is based on Shuzo Fujimoto’s Hydrangea and could easily be modified to have d...
Hydrangea Cube (Harmony paper)
Shuzo Fujimoto’s Hydrangea can be used as a modular unit. The method was first published by Meenakshi Mukerji and then reinvented independently by myself. I ...
Kotlin Logo
Kotlin is a programming language for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) which is gaining in popularity. Having used it for some time, I’m quite happy about the r...
Pajarita Tessellation
The Pajarita is a classical origami model which seems to be especially beloved in the Spanish-speaking parts of the world. In this tessellation, I place litt...
One-Part Box with Two-in-one Flower Tessellation
Most boxes I design are two-part boxes: the lid and the bottom part are made from two separate sheets. This one is a flat, single-piece box (almost a tato): ...
TensorFlow Logo
This is a real-life rendition of the TensorFlow logo in origami, using the Business Card Cube Unit.
Hedgehogs!
A tessellation which fills the plane with cute little hedgehogs. Hedgehog design is a modified version of Pureland Hedgehog by Sebastien Limet. Folded from c...
Cluster Tessellation
Cluster Tessellation, designed and folded by Michał Kosmulski. There are several different ways of achieving a similar effect but with a slightly different p...
Six Intersecting Pentagrams (SIP)
This modular woven polyhedron not only looks nice, but it also has a very interesting history of different people designing it independently. Those credited ...
Double-Blintzed Bird Base Corrugation
After tessellating the blintzed bird base, a natural next step for me was to double-blintz it. Bird base blintzed two times can be tessellated, and it result...
Bed of Nails Tessellation (Long Nail Variant)
This variant of my Bed of Nails Tessellation features longer nails, which have additionally been sharpened at the tips compared to the basic version.
Spiked Octahedron (WSM)
Spiked octahedron made from my Woven Slit Module (WSM), 48 units from 3:1 paper.
Hydrangea Icosahedron
After I made a Hydrangea Cube, Hydrangea Icosahedron was the next logical step. Just as in the cube, the Hydrangea Tessellation by Shuzo Fujimoto is used as ...
Cube (2:1 paper, woven connection, slits outside)
In this assembly method, units forming each face of the cube are woven, forming a hole in the middle. This increases the number of units needed for a cube to...
Cube (2:1 paper, woven connection, slits inside)
In this assembly method, units forming each face of the cube are woven, forming a hole in the middle. This increases the number of units needed for a cube to...
Name Plate (stacking variant)
Name Plate variant which has one of the pyramids pointing outside and the other inside. This allows several elements to be stacked on top of each other, like...
Expanded Hexagonal Prism
This is a shape created by placing cubes on the outer square walls of a hexagonal prism. This way, the outer outline becomes a dodecagonal prism. Seen from t...
Spiked Icosahedron (StEM)
In this model, each face of an icosahedron was replaced with a triangular pyramid made from three units.
Spiked Icosahedron (StEM face variant)
The unit is a variant of an edge unit; I call usage like this the “face variant” since the unit covers a face rather than an edge of the solid. When I invent...
Icosahedron with Inverted Spikes on all Faces
This model shows how StEM units can be modified so that their short rather than their long axis is aligned along the model’s edge.
Spiked Icosahedron (Sonobe variant)
I think this is my first Sonobe variant. Since it’s one of the simplest modifications possible, it has probably been independently discovered by many others.
Spiked Dodecahedron (orange)
See also the same design with different coloring.
Sierpiński Tetrahedron, level 3 (Trimodule)
This model uses 128 Trimodules, forming 64 2-unit tetrahedra, and 126 links that connect them, for a total of 254 units. The links were made from narrow rec...