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Post about folding booklets, zines, letters and more from sheets of paper.

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I posted how I'm struggling to fold some origami models of complex polyhedra.

I have an idea which involved folding them from tracing paper.

I've folded them before, using 200gsm watercolour paper.

When that paper is coated with cyanotype before folding, you can get a metamorphogram.

Here's John Montroll's 'Gamma Star' during exposure, and as a final image.

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Sometimes things fail.

I've been trying to get back into origami practice with John Montroll's - 'A Constellation of Origami Polyhedra' (https://johnmontroll.com/books/a-constellation-of-origami-polyhedra/).

Using 75 cm squares of tracing paper made it harder - wrong paper for these models.

The crease patterns are beautiful - this is for a Sunken Cuboctohedron. But I've failed to fully fold them into 3D shape.

But it's OK. Sometimes things fail.

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I'm starting to get back into origami more, as I think about the next project.

Sometimes it's just good to make.

This is an octagonal helix made from a piece of craft paper about 2 metres long and 40 cm wide.

It's based on a design from Tomoko Fuse's book, 'Spiral'.

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