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I've been trying to collapse the CP for Lang's Garden Spider (http://www.langorigami.com/art/gallery/ ... pider_3lps, this is the box-pleated one, not the circle-packed one.) I've been able to get most of it collapsed, but I'm having trouble figuring out what to do with the two small squares in the bottom center of the model.

I can tell that they're related to all of the horizontal blue lines in that area, in the same way that the other blue lines in the model are related to the other various small diagonal zigzags, but I can't seem to quite figure out what goes where. Has anybody else folded this CP before?

They look like plugs in the crease pattern to make it foldable. all you have to do is fold each of the squares along the diagonal, then fold the resulting right triangle in half again. If this is not possible, treat them like waterbomb bases, and collapse them in that fashion.

Thanks, I think I managed to figure it out. They're actually not plugs--you can flat-fold the model without them, by just using the vertical creases the same way as the top does. I eventually managed to work out that the squares are a point split, to make the little jaw pincer things at the front of the spider. Basically you gather up all of the pleats to the sides of the square, fold them in half along the horizontal line, and then wrap the sides of the square around the outsides of the bundle. Seems completely obvious in retrospect, but that's how CP's always seem to be, I guess. Thanks again for your help.