#fuse tomoko

[nj-phang-al]

"Navel Shell", designed by Fuse Tomoko

[dundunny]

風車2 by Tomoko Fuse 20 pieces Black and robin shell paper German with white and brown ink

Man, it's been too long since I've done origami. I'm trying to get back into the game. I messed up the folding a bit and didn't notice until after I had glued it, but it still looks great.

[dundunny]

先丸切子 and 花額 by Fuse Tomoko 20 pieces White and... dark pink? with blue and white ink German on white paper, Latin on hot pink? paper 

Similar to this one I posted a week ago.

[dundunny]

Ring 19 by Tomoko Fuse 16 pieces Double-sized pink paper German with blank ink

I haven't done a wreath in a while, but when I'm done I never know how to hang them...

[dundunny]

Lozenge by Fuse Tomoko 8 pieces White and ... light cyan? paper German on white paper, German on cyan-ish paper

I like this design a lot because it's super easy and looks attractive.

[bespokefolds]

“If you're going to bristle at folding what someone else wants you to fold, then maybe you'd be better off making your money in some other way and keeping origami an enjoyable pursuit that you can do however you wish.“

Robert Lang, “Careers in Origami”

[bespokefolds]

Where can I find the instructions for the turtle lamp you posted today? Thanks!

Hey! I’m not sure if you’re asking how to fold the unit or how to assemble into the lamp. Not a problem, I can help you with both! :D

First, the unit. I completely owe all credit 100% to origamipenguins. I want to be him when I grow up. Here’s a wonderful reference for the little turtle unit. Here’s a video explaining how to fold it. I had a diagram, but I forget where I put it, darn internet. I’m also really bad at keeping track of where I fold things from (eventually I’m going to get better, I swear geegolly), but I’ve made so many little turtle, I could make them in my sleep.

SO Now on to the assembly. I’m going to break this into two parts: 1.) The actual assembly method and 2.) what lead me to the assembly. Skip the second part if you don’t care to try to follow my bad bastard of math and logic. 

BASICALLY, all you have to do is make a shape (I’ve only done a square and hexagons) out of one side of the units. The other side of the units, make a SEPARATE triangle for each one unit in the shape. Join the bottom of the triangles and put another unit on top to make the upside down triangle. Does that make sense? I hope so. Continue until it’s ~the height you want and form the same shape on top. Incidentally, if you do the hexagon, you can actually make six more triangles at the top.

Part 2! And, for this, let’s talk about the platonic solid. Do you know why there are only five platonic solids? Essentially because when you put shapes together, the angles touching each other have to equal less than 360, and you have to at least have three, or all you get is a plane, and planes are just flat surfaces. Think Toshie’s Jewel, but less stellated. The platonic solids are special because they use all shapes of one kind. Thus, we can only have triangles, squares, and pentagons - if you do hexagons, three added together equal 360, so completely flat (which is why the spreading hex tess works!) And if you’re interested in what I have to say on THAT matter, I have something completely else to say - but that’s too long.

The important thing with that to note is that at this point, we WANT it to be 360 degrees. We want to make a plane - then we can warp it. Because of that, we must choose triangles, squares, or hexagon; no other shape joins in groups of 3+ and equals exactly 360 degrees, unless you use a combination of shapes, like squares and octagons. I highly recommend squares or triangles only though, for your sanity and the lamp’s structural integrity.

The Little Turtle unit is incredibly versatile in that it can be used to make TONS of different shapes. Just try to make a septagon with the Sonobe unit. Go for it, I’ll wait. See? Can’t do it. Just can’t. But the Little Turtle? It’s ready for the septagon! or hexagon or dodecagon or orororororor. I love it. NOW I choose to make triangles for the body of the lamp - you could easily do it with squares or hexagons or combinations of them. Of course, triangles are the most sturdy shape, so that’s why I choose them.

I think that makes sense and is what I was trying to say. But it’s now almost bed time and I spent all my thinking ability on selling insurance. That and I’m really bad at math, so you’ll just have to deal with the bad explanation.