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No folding instructions for this model are listed on my page.
Main model description: Fractalized CFW 85 (consistent fold direction)
Paper: Elephant Hide
Type: single-sheet stars, tessellated stars, recursive and periodic tessellations (implies: abstract tessellation, abstract, fractal, geometric, mathematical object, pattern, single-sheet, star, symbol, abstract periodic tessellation, periodic tessellation, recursive tessellation, tessellation)
Author: Andrew Hudson, Edward Mistretta, Michał Kosmulski, other/uknown, Shuzo Fujimoto (my fractal version of Fujimoto’s design; he may have been aware of its existence; independently also designed by others)
Colors: blue
In albums: Models designed by me and by others, Inspired by Fujimoto, Stars by Shuzo Fujimoto, Tessellations with Decorated Edges

Front Oblique view
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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 likely.

At each level of the fractal, one can fold the pleats either in the same direction as in the level before, or reverse it. The model shown here is the one with alternating fold direction. The same design was achieved independently by Edward Mistretta (link) and Andrew Hudson (link), possibly others as well. I also folded a version where the direction is consistent at each level. Just like the regular Petals (CFW 85), this star is actually a tessellation molecule and can be folded in a multi-molecule arrangement.

Folded from rare pale blue Elephant Hide paper.

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