Help with arasaurolopus baby

[DreamInvader]

Hello everyone,

I started paper folding recently and I came across this dinosaur model with which I have difficulties going from 5th to 6th step. Can someone experienced take a look and help me out explaining to me what to do.

http://dev.origami.com/images_pdf/arasa ... s_baby.pdf

[Aznman]

After you perform step five (the petal fold/ Rabit ear) Rotate the model 180 degree to the right. That will be the starting place for step six.

I don't know why the rotation commond is not in the diagrams, but that's what you have to do.

[DreamInvader]

The problem is that I cannot complete step 5. I do not understand the folds shown on it. Can anyone explain them to me as I can see some lines on step 6 that I cannot achieve through step 5.

[Aznman]

Use These diagrams.

It is essentially the same thing, except in the model diagrams, you have two seperate flaps. You could just tape them together to completed the step

Hope that helps

[DreamInvader]

Thank you for the help, that site is very useful to the begginer folders like me. I will learn a lot from it.
However, as much as it looks like the situation you provided me is the same as in arasaurolopus baby I am afraid that I still can't get it done. Somehow I cannot lift the paper from the bottom and perform that move so that it reaches the top, closing from inside.
Have anyone completed that dinosaur model yet ? It's quite easy considering it's only 15 steps. If so then please give me a hint on how to make step 5.

[HankSimon]

I didn't fold the entire model, just to Step 6. The diagrams were a little misleading, but here are my steps:

1. White side up, fold the paper in half, diagonally.
2. Mountain fold the two corners in back. Another way of looking at it is to turn the sheet over, then fold opposite corners A and B down to meet the bottom corner C in the middle. Turn back over.
3. This might be confusing - Fold the top right and top left edges to meet in the middle. However, Don't fold the flaps in the back, folded in Step 2. Instead, swivel them out from the back to match the picture in Step 4.
4. Fold the top right and top left edges to meet in the middle to get the picture in Step 5.

5. Multiple substeps:
5a. precrease -Valley fold the bottom right edge and the bottom left edge to meet in the middle. Unfold.
5b. precrease - Swivel the top right flap to the left, then fold the bottom left edge of that flap to the middle and unfold. Then swivel the flap back to the right. All you are doing in this substep is making the Moutain fold on the right side.
5c. precrease - same on the other side: Swivel the top left flap to the right, then fold the bottom right edge of the flap to the middle and unfold. Then swivel the flap back to the left. Except for the horizontla fold, you should have the piicture in Step 5.
5d. Place your right finger on the right edge of the left flap, 1/4 down from the top. Place your left finger under the point of the top left flap. Use the Moutain fold as your guide to make the horizontal Valley fold, by slowly swivelling point of the flap to meet the point at the top. Crease.
5e. Reverse fingers and repeat on the Right flap.
5f. Rotate 180 degrees , so that the model is upside down.

This should give you the picture shown in Step 6, with the solid lines indicating existing folds or flaps.

After you figure it out, you'll see that it is Much easier to fold, than it is to describe ...

Let us know.

- Hank Simon

[DreamInvader]

Thank you for the detailed description. I can't believe I finally did it. Lately I began to fall into desperation as I couldn't do such a simple 17-steps model. I thought what chance do I have for the more difficult ones...

I don't know how you did it but I would've never succeeded if it hadn't been the details you provided. It wasn't a petal fold after all, was it ?

Thank you for your time. I am going to move on to something more difficult now and will try to do it only by myself

I was thinking of different kind of roses. Any suggestions of such ? May be someone has a collection of flowers that I can use ?

[HankSimon]

Glad I could help. But don't beat your head against the wall ... too long. Everybody needs help, sometimes. Most of us thought that it was a petal fold, including me.

Roses are a little advanced, not because they are difficult, (they aren't), but because they require patience, persistence, and technique. These varied links should give you some different perspectives for folding the Kawasaki rose and variations.

http://zen_of_origami.home.comcast.net/ Try his simplified Rose....

http://www.bloom4ever.com/HowToFold.htm See Standard Rose

More instructions: http://www.origami-live.de/live.html

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nquHxdpFFBI New Kawasaki Rose
(And you can search for other origami roses on Youtube)

Search http://www.origami.as/Files/models.php for "Rose"

http://anools-origami.tripod.com/download/K-Rose.pdf different view

After you've had some successes: http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Gulf/994 ... /rose.html


And just for fun, you can make some calendars for gifts:
http://www.origami-resource-center.com/ ... ndars.html
Scroll down to 2007 Rhombic Dodecahedron Calendar. And after you print out the files, make sure to look at the Instructions at the same place.

Please post some pictures of your models to share.

- Hank Simon

[Aznman]

Hank, have you had any sucess folding the last rose model you posted the link too?

This one

I can't figure out how to get the peatals to come down like that.
Is this the "new" rose, with some shaping? or is it a completely different model?

Any information would be great, although, I think there was a thread about this rose and no one knew much about it.

[HankSimon]

First, before I mislead you any further , No I haven't folded this model. I'm struggling with simpler things that require less patience...

1. It does look like the new rose with some outside reverse fold shaping, along four petals.

2. Here is a slightly different model:
http://danoftoasters.org/pctimage/image ... rose55.jpg
and Instructions: http://danoftoasters.org/?sample=no&page=3&catnum=2

3. On a different thread, there was another rose, that I think may be Lang's Rose - A Miura-ken Beauty Rose. See: http://www.langorigami.com/art/gallery/ ... ?name=rose. CP is provided. Diagrams in Origami Tanteidan 12th Convention.

Sorry I couldn't help,

- Hank Simon

[HankSimon]

Here is a link that I should have posted originally, with roses and flowers:

http://www.origami-resource-center.com/ ... roses.html

- Hank Simon

[origami_8]

Aznman, the variation you are looking for is described here. It´s a variatiation of the "old" Kawasaki rose described in Origami for the Connoisseur.

PS: There´s an Origami Roses FAQ on this Forum.

[nemanja]

Hello everybody.
I have a problem with the same model (arasaurolopus baby). I figured out step 5 before (with some difficulties). I didn't understand step 7, this is how I did it: i sinked in left and right side, but there was little extra peace/flap that wasn't in line with lower diamond shape, and i did i mountain fold, so that he would be on the same level with diamond shape. Please, tell me if i did it wrong.

And i don't know how to do the step 16, and the leg on step 19, can anyone help me, please?

[quesoonfire]

STEP 7: It looks like a rabbit ear. This move is the same thing that you do when folding a fish base. after folding step 7 you should have two short,split flaps.

STEP16: inside the top flap there is excess paper.Reach in and pull it partially out.

STEP 19:This move is a crimp fold which simply requires folding the paper up then down.

[nemanja]

Thank you quesoonfire, I made it!