{"id":3158,"date":"2015-08-09T21:36:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T02:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zingman.com\/blog\/?p=3158"},"modified":"2015-08-09T21:36:38","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T02:36:38","slug":"origami-flowerball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/09\/origami-flowerball\/","title":{"rendered":"Origami Flowerball"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inspired by Meenakshi Mukerji\u2019s work in modulars, I set out to make a single sheet flower-ball while I was in Ohio for the Centerfold convention. I began with a simple pentagonal flower, which on it\u2019s own is a nice, low-intermediate model, and you can fold a bunch of them and make a nice arrangement. From there I folded a cluster of six flowers from a single sheet, which formed a hemisphere. I spent the rest of the convention doing the prefolding for a full ball.<\/p>\n

Once I was well into it I realized I already had something similar, my Penfractal Dodecahedron Tessellation, which was an evolution my Penfractal Tessellation. I always though the dodecahedron needed something, and the flower idea turned out to be just the thing to bring it to life. The main change to the design was to add a course of pleats between the main pentagonal faces. This gave me enough extra paper to separate the flowers from one another and puff them up to be 3-d.<\/p>\n

I folded it from a ~15\u201d (35cm) sheet of \u201cGrainy\u201d paper I got the Brian Webb\u2019s Origami Shop. This turned out to be a great, high-performance paper for a demanding model. Grainy is tough like Elephant Hide, but a soft like money. Very workable and holds its shape very well. I didn\u2019t have to wetfold the piece.<\/p>\n

The only thing I don\u2019t like about the model is it\u2019s made from a square, although the model uses pentagonal geometry. This means that the tabs at the bottom are all different. You can\u2019t see them anyway, but I\u2019m thinking of making another larger one from a 50cm pentagon. While I\u2019m at it, I\u2019ll make the pleats a bit deeper to try and get more separation between the flowers. I don\u2019t have Grainy paper that large, so I\u2019ll probably use Metallic Lokta. If that works out, next up will be a Lizard Ball!<\/p>\n

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Inspired by Meenakshi Mukerji\u2019s work in modulars, I set out to make a single sheet flower-ball while I was in Ohio for the Centerfold convention. I began with a simple pentagonal flower, which on it\u2019s own is a nice, low-intermediate model, and you can fold a bunch of them and make a nice arrangement. From … Continue reading “Origami Flowerball”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-origami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}