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crease patterns KidIron
How do crease patterns work?
I've been wanting to try out that stun gun of ordigami but I can't figure out how to start.
>> KidIron
I meant to say 'on ordigami' not 'of'.

Really tired at the moment can I can't sleep.
>> Anonymous
As a frequent papercraft-maker and as someone who has never made anything more than a paper cube out of origami, I would also like to know.
>> Re: Crease Patterns. Anonymous
Traditionally, crease patterns use different line styles to indicate valley or mountain folds.

Some crease patterns will not indicate the difference; these puzzles must be resolved step by step. There is no small art to figuring out a complex crease pattern, and folding an origami figure only from a crease pattern is considered to be a true sign of skill.

As for following folding instructions...

Mountain and valley folds are simple. They look like their types.
Sinks and inserts, and other complicated moves, take practice. As you learn how paper moves, they get easier and cleaner. Making prefolds will usually help with these two moves.

The fastest way to learn how to fold origami is to get a simple book and do 2 or 3 models.


For pure crease patterns, there probably isn't a quick way... unless you can figure out which sides face outward. Then you can cut the model down to just those sides, put it together, and start to work it out.

It is definitely not for the faint of heart.
>> Anonymous
I went back and took a look at your Origami Tazer pattern.

The dots represent valley folds. The hard lines, mountain folds (the outer edges)

You ought to end up with a simple, boxy origami once you've got her done... remember that folding a curve means pretracing unless you are uberskilled.

Again, goodluck.
>> mel.shamanka@gmail.com M.
Everything you should never know about Crease Patterns (and then some) you should be able to find there :
http://spinflipper.com/origami/cp/toc.html