What To Fold

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OK.
I need to 'get rid of' alot of paper, any satisfying, quick to fold complex models?
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ive got a pink square aprox 20cm x 20cm , i dont know what type of paper it is but it's thin and wet- foldable.
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Redhead, try Michael LaFosse's Praying mantis from Advanced origami. It needs really thin paper, but since you said complex models, I guess the paper(s) is/are thin, right? Also, Roman Diaz has quite complex, but still pretty quick models in his two books. I have no ide what book you own, so I am sorry if you do not have theese books.
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1. 38 cm, divided in 16ths in one way
2. Transparent
3.Thin
4. Baking paper
5. High intermediate, no tessellations!
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Erm...how about Eric Joisel's crane? It's a nice intermediate fold out of baking paper...38 cm's a lot though....maybe you could divide it into fourths and make four of them?

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1. 18 in.
2. Black (both sides)
3. a little bit thicker than copy paper....I think?
4. Kraft/banner paper
5. Complex (not supercomplex)
and also:
1. 15 in
2. White
3. Thicker than copy paper
4. Cansom 60gsm Art paper.
5. HIgh-Intermediate/Complex (yet has a simple look?)
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loganorigami, maybe the inflatable pig by Roman Diaz? It comes out as a great size if you use approx 20 cm.
It's in Origami Essence, if you're interested.

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Flame_Kurosei wrote:loganorigami, maybe the inflatable pig by Roman Diaz? It comes out as a great size if you use approx 20 cm.
It's in Origami Essence, if you're interested.

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An easy but satisfying way to get rid of paper is to burn it.
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loganorigami--post pics when you're done!

@phillipcurl: that is very true, but it wouldn't be so satisfying for me since I bought the art paper...and the banner paper was a gift from a VERY expectant-for-origami teacher......yargh.
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you have a teacher for origami? lucky -_-
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Thanks, Flame, but I said high intermediate. Joisel's crane variation is, I don't know, about simple to low intermediate. I wanted something a bit easier than the Dancing crane by Lang or Pegasus by Kamiya, you know...
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Try Chocobo, by SK.
Thats a pretty easy yet complex model.
oh yeah, and
1. 20x20 inches, but I can tape together to achieve larger paper easily
2. white
3. 25 wt, so thin
4. tracing
5. complex - super complex
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Try Dancing crane, by Robert Lang
I didn't know I could make a nice-looking Chocobo with a 38 cm transparent sheet of baking paper, divided in 16ths one way, on which every crease shows very proeminently :P
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My apologies, Alexorigami.

The only thing I could think at first of was a peacock by jun maekawa, but that's not "high intermediate"...and you also said no tessellations, so I'm at a loss, mainly because of the stripes caused by the 16th splits....the only thing I can think of when someone says a grid is a tessellation, or a modular. Also, since it's baking paper, like you said, the grids would really show. Not many models could take those lines (aside from a box pleated one) and utilize it to its full potential (none that I can think of anyway, but I haven't folded a lot of models with 16x16, so.....yar).

In other words, I'm not sure what constitutes a "high intermediate model", considering how the definition changes for every person I meet, and I'm sorry about that. :|

EDIT: Would a cp work for you? I mean, you could probably find one with a 16x16 grid. (first thing that came into my mind was Guspath Go's 7-I mean-9 tailed fox cp)

Oh, and @phillipcurl--I don't have an origami teacher. I have an "expectant-for-origami" Geometry teacher (who gives me a TON of extra credit for folding models and analyzing the geometry of the pieces I fold :D). It would be awesome to have an origami teacher though....my first model would be ryuzin 3.5! :lol:
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