Kamiya has drawn inspiration for his designs from Manga, nature, and both eastern and western mythologies. The work can take up to one month to fold properly. Perhaps his most famous design is Ryu-Zin 3.5, an elaborate dragon covered with scales and having feelers, claws, and horns. Kamiya began designing origami models in 1995, and has since published hundreds of his creations. Known internationally to be a master of the craft, he began folding at age two. These are pretty neat (if I had colour change paper, the upper and lower cubes would be different colours), but they’re not really my thing.Satoshi Kamiya (神谷 哲史, Kamiya Satoshi, born Jin Nagoya, Japan) is a Japanese origami artist. He previously made a Koch’s Snowflake Curve in Challenge #13. He tends to come up with interesting methods to fold seemingly impossible models that are aesthetically fairly boring (to me at least). There are several crease patterns here, but I’m only doing the first one. The last model, No.06, is a Domino Cube by Ushio Ikegami. Also, I have a red filter that I never get to use. They are neat having slopes with direction changes. These really aren’t the kind of models I like much, so I just Xeroxed them and folded them from those. No.05 is a set of little houses, listed as Japanese Roofs, by Tomohiro Tachi. Unfortunately, I may have again missed a polarity switch on the lionfish (I tend to do with his models). They kind of feel minimal but are very detailed. These two incorporate the methods he uses for humans to make an artistic lionfish and jellyfish. These are pretty special, because he tends to do animals in a more traditional way than his human models. No.04 has two models by Takashi Hojyo: Un objet d’un poisson 5 (Pterois lunulata) and Un objet d’un poisson 11 (Jellyfish). Having the tail along with four wings, six legs, and a detailed face (his is much better detailed than mine, by the way) is a little ridiculous. The main feature with this one is the dragonfly’s banded tail. He always has great models with special details.
It’s a little trickier than it looks, which makes it interesting, but I think I like it just because the giraffe is endearing.Ġ3 is Satoshi Kamiya’s Dragonfly 1.1B. I think this is my favourite model in this set.
Just getting that many points is fascinating, and they make a really neat model. There are 5 baby crabs under the main crab (it’s all one large square). I hope my pictures show this well enough. Such a large scale model ends up pretty forgiving, but mine (particularly the major shell) isn’t as sharp as possible. I got quite a few, but, there are so many, I ended up estimating more than I knew. I had quite a bit of trouble with the reference points. No.01 starts things with a bang: it’s A Crab and Its Kid by Toshiyuki Meguro. I forgot whatever spiel I had for this, so direct to it I guess. So Crease Pattern Challenge #28 is actually several models split into 6 sections. Origami Tanteidan Magazine #82 is a special issue that mainly has crease patterns.