You’re good, relatively good compared to them. This guy probably dedicated like 10x the time you did because it’s probably his life lol. Don’t be hard on yourself.

Food a paper into a balloon or a box, it has a hole on top, you can fill it with water.

Edit: ha ha food = fold

Thank you, u/phatjuicyass

I was expecting a Rick roll and not the god of origami

thats so fuckin amazing.

Including workhours, materials, taxes, misc - it would be like ~€3k to buy it from indie shop.

Wow

Oh yeah, I think I can do that.

<down the rabbit hole> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtPQz1qCnB4

Yeah, no. I can't do that at all.

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Man, I have no idea how:

• people can even imagine that starting grid

• Have the patience to fold that much

Impressive.

The title fails to mention that it’s a 150cm piece of (tissue?) paper lol. I was thinking a piece of A4.

Still impressive as hell though

at 3:36 you see a calculator on the table that’s how you know this man is serious

Thanks for the source. I'm sour the guy didn't show hardly any folds in detail, especially the scales. He straight even stopped recording for the 30 hours when doing the majority of the scales.

Like I don't want to watch 30 hours but show me 1 at a slow enough speed I cam confirm they aren't cut. Cuz as is I'm not certain he didn't cut the scales, they are too perfect.

Thanks u/PhatJuicyAss

Absolutely astounding. Wow.

Thank you.

I'm glad to find out the paper is large. For some reason I was thinking it was gonna' be something like a regular sheet of 8 1/2" paper.

O-H!

I could never pull off something like this. I don’t even have the patience to watch the whole video.

The thing that confuses me the most, is how the hell do you come up with the building process. I know it's "just folding" but all the preplanning need to actually archive that look is mind boggling.

Straight up said bullshit when I saw the post till I saw the video, crazy lol

I... uh. Yeah I'm just going to have another beer I guess. Definitely not going to go think about what I do with my free time.

My wife just now "he must have ripped it somewhere and taped it"

And there I was thinking this was done with some plain old 8x11 printer paper.

That's a pretty big square. I'd imagine most folks see "1 uncut square" and try to wrap their head around how one standard origami kit-sized piece of paper can produce this much dragon.

Table cloth is more like.

That channel is nuts.

16 hours. Wtf.

The computer can't, really. Really at most it can do is calculate a number and placement of paper flaps that can be turned into limbs/antennae/whiskers etc - and that's with a lot of tweaking and in-depth knowledge of the artist. Stuff like this is tesselation (the scales) folding the paper in on itself to become a smaller but now patterned square, then folding that model into the flaps and lengths necessary for the limbs and mouth, then detailing and more folds to not look like a flat scaled mess. Origami may be math, but so far the finished models like this one are practically out of the hands of computers. - source (been obsessed with origami for 20 years)

The software just gives you the layout of the "base" with the right size and location flaps to make features out of. Sometimes that base is only formable by making all the creases and then one big collapse, not a series of steps

look up Robert J Lang's TreeMaker for more info

I fold and sometimes design origami. There are a lot of patterns to designing origami that are very difficult to take from intuition to legible, but Origami Design Secrets by Robert Lang does a better job than anything else, especially as it's basically the only thing out there.

One thing that might make it make more sense is that as a designer you're keeping in mind the larger geometry, and there are patterns of folds to do certain things, and so in the same way music is 1000s of notes but the notes form larger pattterns like chords and arpegios and 8 measure whatever-they're-called, origami has patterns you can string together. Some of it might be purpose driven and some more exploratory & then you record the final version you like.

Makes me wonder if you could train an AI to translate 3D blender Models into real foldable origami.

look on youtube for Robert Lang. he is a physicist and origami artist. He is the one that started applying computer tools into it (and built his own software, Treemaker). He also has been using origami principles to design stuff outside of origami (like airbags that open faster) eg https://youtu.be/MDwPXRy9IFc

Thanks for that. It makes sense now. Seems ridiculously difficult. Also there was no scale in the OP. Didn’t realize the paper was the size of a bed sheet. I was thinking 8.5” x 11”. People blow me away.

My very first thought after seeing this was,

“Me: flicks lighter”

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90.5. Did you even see it?

Great work, just a slight correction: it is actually 90.5 hours, per the video.

More like 90.5-ish

90.5 the video I saw says.

And he didn't tear or rip it once.

Projects like these and those huge domino sculptures are truly tough because one mess up means that you might have to have to start completely over.

I've only had one glass of wine

Yes. A Letter size 8.5x11. College ruled

I've never made anything even remotely as complex as this, but I have used 18 inch paper. The bigger the paper, the easier it is to make complex models. At the same time, the bigger the paper, the more unwieldy it is. So yes, you're absolutely right. A sheet that big would be a massive pain in the ass.

Thank you. I can't believe people are complaining that the paper is too big!

I wouldn't call anyone who says that an incel.. that's not what incels are.

Critics, jealous ones, sure lol

I disconcur.