16. Wildcard Week

I am interested about Origami, so this week, I want to do Origami relevant assignments although I never learn about it before.

To begin with, I did a lot of research, here’s information I take refference from:

Refference for Origami - Treemaker

Robert J Lang Origami
Treemaker Tutorial - How to Use - Beginner Guide - Origami
The Origami Design Process from Start to Finish

Refference for Paper Folding

Origami Basics: Mountain Folds and Valley Folds
Origami Elephant create with treemaker - Tutorial - How To - Intermediate

Origami Elephant Starts!!!

Processing

I am so happy that this software developed in 1991 still works on my latest windows 11 !

You can download Treemaker for windows OS; for [Treemaker] For Treemaker Help ;

For more details, read this page;

To draw an elephant with Treemaker

First, to address the nodes of your elephant:

Next, draw a stick figure. This stick figure can be anything, but I use it for elephant:

These following steps are not symmetry, please see Redo (check content list you’ll find the title）part. To create the tree :

To fix one point to the edge and symmetry line:

If you did it correctly, you will get sth. like this:

Next step, build crease pattern and you will get a crease patterm like this:

Next, for ‘creases view’, click here:

Now, I am going to color print it , and paper folding, let’s see how we make a paper elephant!

Design file

To download the design file

Redo Part - To add symmetry line:

Construct a “generic mammal” tree with equal-length head, tail, four legs, and a body

To show symmetry line, click ‘Symmetry’:

Click one-third and two-thirds of the way from the bottom.

Now, click node ‘1’ and create another node ‘4’ on the right side.

Create node ‘1’ again to create node ‘5’:

Create node ‘2’ and create node ‘6’ and node ‘7’:

Create node ‘1’ again to create node ‘8’, make sure node‘8’ is connecting to both node‘6’ and node ‘4’ :

Next, to fix one point to the edge and symmetry line.

Next, you scale everything. if you done it correctly , you will get sth. look like this:

Up to now, there is a lot of information in this figure: - Several green lines have appeared that connect leaf nodes and they have dots and numbers along them. The stick figure has been distorted because the leaf nodes have moved. - The node circles have expanded until some of them touch each other. - And last, the scale displayed at the bottom of the window has changed from 0.10000 to 0.2669.

Here’s what this all means. The green lines between them indicate fold lines in the base. (They will be mountain folds most of the time)

Next step, build crease pattern and you get a crease pattern:

A beautiful crease pattern built:

To get a ‘Crease view’:

You can choose to display just the creases by choosing the View->Creases View command.
This turns off the display of everything but creases, and also uses a different color scheme for the creases, called MVF coloring.
MVF coloring is closer to the color scheme you might be familiar with from published origami patterns. In this scheme, creases are colored not according to their structural role, but according to their fold direction:
- Mountain folds are solid black lines.
- Valley folds are magenta dashed lines.
- Flat (unfolded) folds are light gray lines.
- Border creases are also shown in black.

For ‘Plan view’:

Design File for Download:

Elephant_updated

Color print the Design file

Paper folding

To do these mountain folds and valley folds according to the lines on the paper:

Follow the lines, you should get this result:

Now, unfold everything:

Then, follow the creases and make the body of the elephant:

Turn it over and keep following the creases and fold:

Slowly, my elephant gradually revealed its outline … …

Up to now,I printed the crease pattern we developed in Treemaker and folded it into the base that it produced, you can actually see it came out with some sort of a base and if we open it up a bit we can see it models the tree kind of well with the body and the legs and also the tail (I fogot to take photo of the tail, which it is folded downward since there’s a solid line)

but even so, this outline could be elephants or other four-footed animals. So I add small details - the nose, little tail part and also the feet. Now, it turns out more like an elephant!!!

This has greatly sparked my interest, and I will explore more about the design and science behind folding in the future.

Here’s the hero shot:

Heroshot - ‘Elephant Jungle Walk’