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Hello
after spending a very long evening trying to collapse a crease pattern of mike leonards Wolf (that I printed out )

I collapsed something that looked like a headless geometric camel, But then after a while of fiddling about I came up with this,


I suppose it could be a wolf, but have I done it wrong

also why does it look nothing like his beauty



oh also I nearly forgot to mention, I could not fold a valley fold on what looks like a forearm, you will spot it on the cp, it's the only thing not to be symmetrical

The collapsed CP only gets you to a base. Now you have to figure out how to shape it, or sculpt the base into the wolf shape. Also, you will need to point split or add a graft for the toes, they aren't included in that CP.

Ohhhhh ok, thanks d00d
but also what about that mysterious valley fold that looks out of place?

Believe it or not, you're right about there being an error in the CP. The long red crease in the grey section should actually be blue.

The grey section means that those corners get folded inside and hidden. Often people don't included the creases in those sections, as they are not part of the structure and could effectively be cut off without harming it.

By the way, this is a very common base. As I remember Ronald Koh's Rhinoceros (available online) and Quentin Trollip's Horse (Tanteidan 14) are two fully diagrammed designs that have the same base.

Detailing brings life to an origami piece. After reaching a base, which is usually pretty dull and resembles nothing, you would have to detail it.
I think for the toes, you would have to split the points and then you would need to mould the model till it reaches a 3d shape. The rest are mainly valley and reverse folds. Good luck!

hey thanks dudes ( and dudettes?)
I just realised that the red crease is wrong aswell but I was talking about the valley fold in the top right of the middle square, or should have I incorporated that?

If its the fold I think you're talking about, it just tells you what direction that point should be folded in so the base lies flat. Not really necessary though.

You're right on that one too. He's got a couple other technically incorrect folds up in the head area too (can't have 5 creases intersecting) but again, most of it is fairly easy to figure out. That one in the center surprises me, because if it were me I would have just drawn half the CP and reflected it across the diagonal.

ok, cool I have tried to detail it and it is HARD!!
I mean I thought details was one thing that I was ok at but I can barely make a head, now the papers falling apart
if any of you can make a decent looking wolf tell me

My attempt

It's upside-down.

is it?
to detail it I folded some folds backwards (mountains to valleys and vice versa) I don't know why though

http://dev.origami.com/diagram_load.cfm ... =rhino.pdf

Step 43 is the same base.

Also, this photo of it should be more helpful:

http://www.root2studio.net/wolf.htm

ohhh, I see now it is only semi 3d, and yeah that does make more sense folding it the other way, but my way makes it look like it has really big haunches. oh also your rhino is broken

That first wolf you linked to has grafts for toes, they are not point-split.
I may be wrong, but that wolf was not done by Mark, someone else (I think Brimstone on this forum) added grafts to Mark's wolf and then Fabian Correia folded it to get to that result.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/georigami/2141216899/

Quentin