Flower - Anna Kastlunger, originally uploaded by Origami Weekly.

This week we have Anna Kastlunger's Flower. She designed it for the Origami Forum's 30 folds or less challenge. It doesn't have too many folds, but every one counts. And it's got a lot of tension holding it together.

Flower - Anna Kastlunger

Folded from a 15 cm of patterned washi paper. Yep, you can even fold it with that stuff!

Dual Decagrams, by Andrew Hudson, originally uploaded by Origami Weekly.

This model borrows some concepts from John McKeever's Stellations of the Dodecagon. This is one of the first times I've drawn diagrams for something with such a complex color-change pattern, and it was an interesting challenge to draw something with intermeshed layers like this in a program that only supports stacked layers.

Anyway, I was thinking about it and I realized that I spent more time diagramming this model than I did designing and folding it-- which may be a first for me, usually I fold it at least twice before diagramming it.

Diagrams here:
dl.getdropbox.com/u/232756/decagrams.pdf

Leafhopper, by Ryan Welsh, originally uploaded by Origami Weekly.

This week we've got another model from Ryan Welsh, and it's the first insect we've featured so far. I have to say, I really enjoyed folding this model; he uses the wonderful coincidences of eightfold symmetry to great effect.

Diagrams here.