#modular origami

[craftingcreature]

My three-day weekend of origami concluded yesterday with some greens. Another "xyz" intersecting diamonds, and then a slight variation of the Sonobe unit I already learned. (This variant is really common and I feel like it should have a name, but I don’t know if there’s a consensus on what it’s called.)

This video shows how to make the unit and the 30-unit ball. On-screen text is in Spanish, but you get the idea.

[consolecadet]

Disco Objects (Compulsion), 2025

Origami paper, papier-mache, acrylic, and mirror tile

Modular origami and ‘disco objects’ (unconventionally shaped objects with reflective finishes) have long been two of my less serious creative hobbies. Every winter since I was a child, I’ve found myself compulsively folding origami paper into Sonobe modules, making 12 to 120 of the same module to assemble into polyhedrons called kusudama. Disco objects emerged from my desire to control and beautify my limited environment at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, when I was convalescing from spinal stenosis and reluctantly living with my parents again as an adult. For Compulsion, I brought modular origami and disco objects together into one entity. It should be the ultimate comfort object, but it seems a bit too sharp for that.

[hitori-no-ginga]

The colorful snake 🐍

Finally finished, so happy !

[gayverlyearp]

bus origami. model by tomoko fuse.

[origami-fleur]

Classy

Yet another hydrangea kusudama made by following the instructions on this post.

[oli-draw]

Paper cranes:They just stand in a circle

Mother:What kind of sect is this?

Me: No, it's- Probably... It's a good idea

...

Photo in three acts

[knotty-et-al]

Compound of 3 rhombic dodecahedra

In motion:

[Rhombus module by Nick Robinson]

[semi-imaginary-place]

dug out my unfinished projects/patterns box and found this pattern. I didn't like that it had an irregular fold at the end that quadruples the thickness so I modified the pattern so the tucked edge wasn't folded over (original left and center, modification right). The result is more of the brown/pattern side and less white. You can see a full 3,5 symmetry 30 piece kusudama below left.

A pentagon forms a flat plane but I experimented a bit and with a prefold you can make a 4 piece unit that tents which might create a more spherical piece but I'm tired of folding these so I'll figure it out another time (someone else please try and show me the results. I also made the spikey 30 piece kusudama on the right. this was totally the wrong paper. I used a thicker paper and it was a terrible choice, it's too fragile and there's tons of little tears along the seams and fold lines.

Here's some protopytes from the project box I made out of my middleschool/highschool printouts.