What are all the bases?

Prof. Fufflykins · February 11th, 2011, 3:03 am

I only know of the bird base, but I know there's more. Ehat are they?

akugami · Post by **akugami** » February 11th, 2011, 3:09 am

there's also a frog-, a waterbomb-, a preliminary-, a pig- and a fishbase. may be some more ...

Grace · Post by **Grace** » February 11th, 2011, 3:30 am

There's also the kite and windmill base. There's even more, but I can't remember them.

What is a pig base? I have not heard of that before.

akugami · Post by **akugami** » February 11th, 2011, 9:59 am

may be you'd like to try this link: http://www.origami-instructions.com/origami-pig.html

Post by **origami_8** » February 11th, 2011, 2:35 pm

There's also a bunch of blintzed bases, whereas I would call a blintz a base too.
A more recent base is Montroll's dog base.
And then there are many non traditional bases some of them only created for a single model like it is the case for many models where only Crease Patterns exist.

erfael · Post by **erfael** » February 11th, 2011, 5:03 pm

What are a few examples of Montroll's dog base? Is that essentially what all the quadrupeds in Mythological Creatures and the Chinese Zodiac are built from? Or is it something else?

Montroll also puts forth a brontosaurus base that I've seen used by some other people for various models.

HankSimon · Post by **HankSimon** » February 12th, 2011, 1:24 am

I think that most of Montroll's mammals use his dog base, so that they have 4 legs.

http://origamiancy.com/2009/04/origami- ... -montroll/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25461209@N02/4411354954/

- Hank Simon

David · Post by **David** » February 12th, 2011, 2:41 am

look at it another way- a bird base is a preliminary base with two petal folds, a waterbomb base is a prelim inside out?

A fish base is a kite base with two rabbit ears.
A frog base is a preliminary base with four squash folds, then four petal folds.

Blintzed bases are any of the above with the four corners folded to the centre before anything else is done.

All the other bases are more or less hybrids, but possibly in the case of John Montroll's dog one, not a true base as it does not have the same proportions for different models. In other words the first instruction can not be "start with dog base"

Then you can also go to various other animal bases such a the Rhodes animal base.
However many of my favourite designers do not use bases all that often, relying more on nice folding sequences- not often overtly complex- but great origami.

etc

David

anonymous person · February 12th, 2011, 8:57 am

I think we're all forgetting the traditional little- bird's base!

joshuaorigami · Post by **joshuaorigami** » February 12th, 2011, 9:05 am

In the first post he mentions that he already knows it...

HankSimon · Post by **HankSimon** » February 12th, 2011, 6:37 pm

I dunno ... maybe he knows of another called the "Little-Bird's Base."

- Hank Simon

ahudson · Post by **ahudson** » February 12th, 2011, 8:01 pm

The bird base and the little bird base are different. This is the little bird base:

http://www.davidpetty.me.uk/mom/mom12.htm

cranemaster366 · Post by **cranemaster366** » February 13th, 2011, 4:29 pm

Isn't that folded from a kite base?

jogibaer · Post by **jogibaer** » February 13th, 2011, 6:50 pm

It would be very good to have a special thread with all the bases with an link to an instruction movie or something like that.

David · Post by **David** » February 14th, 2011, 12:51 pm

How many "real" bases are there?
It cannot include ones that change their proportion, as the case of Montroll's dog base.

I don't consider the Kite base a real one - it is just folding two raw edges to a middle crease?

So any takers- this could be interesting?