I first played these games when I was around 20 years old… My parents forbade me playing with puzzle and Tetris (they think it’s too silly). (the very bad thing about them is that you never have enough parts!) I always liked solving conundrums and playing with construction sets Origami Designer's Secrets: Ekaterina Lukasheva.Make Beautiful Modular Origami Kusudamas.

Indeed, it’s easy, when you have the right mood. This understanding guides me when I create new models. It was a breakthrough to me, cause I understood, that it was easy! So easy! I talked to my chef and was playing with a note paper.Īn suddenly I understood that it can be turned to an origami module! It was simple and elegant! In 2008 I discovered my first glue-less unit. (I’m a fan of Transport Tycoon and Civilization). Origami had to compete with my other hobbies: drawing, photographing, modeling and computer strategy games And I tried to make some “my own” things.Īctually my own creations were rare, ugly and paper-consuming. I was born in the family of scientists, so from the cradle I got the feeling, that man must create something new. I thought I would never be able to create something as genius as Sonobe unit. I was totally stunned by the models that require neither glue nor thread to hold together. It was the time, when I got an access to internet, so I could find more models to fold. I had to enter the university, so I spent 2 years to learning mathematics and geometry for the entrance exams.Īfter three years I was able to remember this hobby. It was the fact that has bound me with kusudamas tightly. These positive notes rescued me from total fail with geometry notes. I need to say here, that I had been a lazy pupil and I didn’t make my homework. We folded few of them for a school contest and were granted some positive notes for geometry. With my friend we tried to fold some of the balls. One day, around 2001, our mathematics teacher brought us origami magazine, that contained kusudamas. When I was 14, I was very fond of gluing paper models of buildings in my school. They've folded and submitted photos of their origami.As I was a pupil I knew origami only in a sense of folding paper airplanes. Many of our readers love this modular pinwheel. Here's the completed modular origami pinwheel! See how there are 2 loose tips on Units 7 and 8? Tuck those tips under and you're done! Modular Origami Pinwheel Step 18: FLIP entire piece over. This time, the bottom flap of the brown unit needs to go behind the 1st yellow unit. We're going to add the brown unit to the yellow unit. Modular Origami Pinwheel Step 17: ROTATE the entire piece counter-clockwise 90 degrees. Wrap the brown tips around the yellow unit. Attached a yellow unit to the brown unit.

Modular Origami Pinwheel Step 16: OK, the 2nd last unit now. Wrap the yellow tips around the brown unit. Modular Origami Pinwheel Step 15: We'll add a brown unit, the 6th unit, to the yellow one. Once again, we have a horizontal yellow unit (top). Modular Origami Pinwheel Step 14: ROTATE entire unit counter-clockwise 90 degrees so that you have the following. Place the yellow unit between the brown flaps. This is now the 5th unit we're assembling. Modular Origami Pinwheel Step 13: The yellow unit is next. Modular Origami Pinwheel Step 12: OK, use the 4th unit, a brown color one, and place in between the yellow flaps.

Notice how the yellow is now in horizontal again, like when we first started assembling in Step 7? So, we'll be joining the units the same way again like in Steps 7 to 10! Modular Origami Pinwheel Step 11: ROTATE the entire unit counter-clockwise 90 degrees so that you see the following. Close the flap and wrap the brown tips around the yellow unit. Modular Origami Pinwheel Step 10: Now let's use the 3rd unit, another yellow. Wrap the yellow tips around the brown paper like in the pictures below. Modular Origami Pinwheel Step 9: We need to hold the units together. Place the brown unit inside and close the yellow flap. Modular Origami Pinwheel Step 8: Open up the yellow unit front flap. I will start with a yellow unit and join the brown unit to it. Modular Origami Pinwheel Step 7: OK, time to start assembling. Made this origami? Comment and Submit your photo using the comment box at the end of this page!

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