An origami arabesque, by Mio Tsugawa. An arabesque is an elaborative application of repeating geometric forms that often echo the forms of plants and animals (from Wikipedia). It requires 30 modules that take an hour each to make. You can find the diagrams directly on the authors website. I also made a variant with only 6 modules. Video and another image after the break.
Variant with 6 modules.
12 responses to “Video: Arabesque”
dude the link to the author’s website doesn’t work.
i know that it requires a lot of work, but the one u made is quite weak.
Otherwise, love ur site so far.
I fixed the link. What do you mean by weak, it holds together pretty well.
hmm maybe its the paper im using.
is there any special kind of paper you use or does anything work?
I use completely standard paper. I don’t want huge origamis cluttering my shelves so I cut the 20cm paper in half, the density might have to do something with it. Once the modular is complete and the points curled it holds together very well.
[...] sturdy and easy to fold modular origami, by Carmen Sandiego. It’s the same basic model as the arabesque, simpler but harder to assemble. You can make an octahedron with 12 modules or an icosahedron with [...]
i saw the diagrams, tried it, couldn’t understand it. But now i can. Thanks for the video, appreciate it
did you have to use any glue in the making of your arabesque? also did you use 7.5 by 7.5 cm square units for your basic squares for your arabesque?
I didn’t use any glue, it wouldn’t be origami if I did… I have been tempted with the intersecting tetrahaedra tough (consider it a sin to use glue when making an origami). I used 10 by 10cm paper squares to do it, but it really doesn’t matter how big they are, as long as they’re all the same.
this is a great model, know of any others similar to this and the intersecting tetrahedra that’re insanely hard and time consuming to do?
Search for polyhedron and polyhedra, I’m finding them on the net as I go.
well I typed in Polyhedra origami on google, first entry that popped up showed how to make 4 different models using different amounts of the same kind of fold, the biggest one called the Epcot taking somewhere near 270 pieces…I think that’d satisfy anyone’s craving for origami for quite some time.
i’ve made one of those before, but i screwed up on the assembly. it looked like a pear, and i didn’t even use all of them.
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