14 February 2011

Valentine

Happy Valentine to all, no matter if you are
single and available, 
single but not available,
engaged,
married,
..
Of all the paper roses I saw, I like this the most, it's a Miura-ken rose. It's final form is the nearest to my perception of a fully bloomed rose. The paper with lines printed on it is the crease pattern, which is a one-step connection from the unfolded square to the folded form, done by Robert J. Lang. There are no folding sequence included on his site except for the basic folding instructions of hills and valleys. 
It took me 3 tries to get it into something resembling the one on his site, with final steps from a origami forum I googled. It's not an easy rose to fold, but it's a very fulfilling one when completed.
The pdf file can be found here.