Modular Origami: Kusudama

Oops, its been a quite some time since I've updated my blog.

I had been busy lately because of just starting to go college few days ago.

Things had not been fully settled down yet but so far so good.

As from my last post, today I will be introducing you the other type of Modular Origami -

Kusudamas.

A wide variations of kusudamas

You might have noticed...or not.

One of the largest difference between Kusudamas and Sonobes are: -

Kusudamas usually have floral-pattern / curved based design while in my opinions it looks more fancy than Sonobes.

Besides, mostly Kusudamas would be more complex either be on folding the modules or assembling the pieces when compared with folding advanced Sonobe models as it sometimes might have curved creases or contains part to be swirled.

Example of  Kusudamas consist of swirled / curved parts.

Kusudama Spiral
[Designed by Ирина Krivyakina]
[Folded by Me]

Fish Curler Kusudama
[Designed by Ekaterina Lukasheva]
[Folded by Rui Roda]

Kusudama Versailles
[Designed by Krystyna Burczyk]
[Folded by Tadashi Mori]

Still, there are a lot different kind of variations of modular origamis outside, please do explore them as I couldn't share every single good work to everyone else.

That's somehow the explanation for Modular Origami, thank you for visiting my blog and stay tuned for my next post!

Modular Origami: Sonobe

Sonobes.

Sonobe Cubes

The name itself came from the creator of this category in Modular Origami,
Mitsunobe Sonobe

Identical to many other fields of origamis, Sonobe module is made using a square piece of paper, they can be linked together through flaps-and-pockets without the help of any adhesive tools, and could form a great variety of shapes.

Modifying variations to the basic Sonobe units can even produce different types of shapes and create a more complex Modular Origami.

A basic Sonobe module is fairly easy to be folded, the instructions are as follow:

Basic Sonobe module tutorial.

As for the Sonobe Cubes I've shown above, its assembled by using 6 units of basic Sonobe modules.

There are a lot of others wonderful Sonobe variations designed and well folded by well-known Origamist,
Below are a few great variations of Sonobes.

Origami Sea Urchin Star

Designed by Martin Sejer Anderson
Folded by Me.

Six Intersecting Squares

    Designed by Jorge C. Lucero
    Folded by Me.

STUVWXYZ Star

Designed by Meenakshi Mukerji
Folded by Me.

Five Intersecting Tetrahedras

 

   Designed by Tom Hull

   Folded by Me.

Spides Icosahedron

Designed and folded by Ekaterina Lukasheva.

Please visit her website kusudama.me for more interesting Modular Origami variations :D

I think that's all for this post, thank you for reading! :D

Please look forward to my next post about Modular Origami: Kusudamas

Happy folding! Goodbye :)

Modular Origami - General Introduction

Hi again, in this post I'll be introducing about Modular Origami as promised.

Since the Modular Origami's field is somehow w-i-d-e, I'll divide it into a few posts, so today I'll just make a general introduction towards it.

Let's get started :D

Top Rules for Origamis

#1 Fold models using one clean piece of paper, without any cuts, mostly with a square.

Standard Origami papers
[ Available in many different sizes,
but usually in 15cm x 15cm (6 inches x 6 inches) ]

#2 Complete the model without using any external materials to maintain the model's structure (glue/ thread)

Kusudama Paradigma

Made up of 30 modular units,
they interlock each other so that the model
could maintain its structure without glues/ threads

What really is Modular Origami?

Modular Origamis are Origami models that are designed mostly based on polygonal shapes and built up using exactly identical modular units and linking them together in a repetitive manner to form an origami structure, WITHOUT glue/ thread 

It could be in flat or three dimensional form. 

Pentagonal Star 
[ Flattened Form ]

Designed and folded

by Christine Edison

Stellated Icosahedron Star
[ Three-dimensional form ]

Folded by Me

From what I've studied, by here I'll divide three-dimensional Modular Origamis into a two different categories, 

-Kusudama

Versailles Kusudama

Example:

Kusudama Paradigma 

(pic above)

*Versailles Kusudama 

(pic on right)

*Little Roses Kusudama

(pic below)

*[ Image taken from www.goorigami.com ]

Little Roses Kusudama

Hollow Sonobe

-Sonobe

Example:

Stellated Icosahedron Star

(pic above)

*Hollow Sonobe

(pic on left)

*[ Image taken from

leezarainboeveins.deviantart.com ]

Coming up post will be talking about either one of the Modular Origamis category I've stated above,

so if you wanted to know more, stay tuned! 

Have a great day and good bye :D

Greetings

Hi! Yes to you who's reading my blog.  A BIG thank you to you for visiting!

The very first post of my new blog - Origami : Unfold

I'll do a short introduction about myself and briefly describe what this blog is all about, please spare some patience to read this :D

Typical Malaysian, a rather shy seventeen Chinese guy with specs 0--0

Okayy, enough of myself, now about the blog.

There's a few purpose for me to create this blog, the reasons are as follow :

-Share my passion towards origamis and publish my own work.
-Introduce to people more about what origamis really is.
-Describe clearly and in a simple way of different categories of origamis.
-Break off the mindset of "origamis are complicated" which it is false and everyone CAN fold
-Try to bring in more people into the origami field.




*P.S. 
My English is not really well so please forgive me if I have any errors or mistakes in this blog /.\

By the way, please visit my Facebook page in the link below, I'll be posting pictures of my works and other origamist's work there!

FB - Origami: Unfold

If anyone is interested in my work or any custom making request, please feel free to contact me through the Facebook page.

Here comes to the end of my first post, in my next post I will start to introduce one of the most popular origami categories - Modular Origamis

Stay tuned! 
Have a great day :D