Allomyrina dichotoma
Kabuto Mushi
(R. Lang design, modified)folded from an uncut square
designed by Brian Chan
August, 2006
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I've been wanting to design a kabuto mushi for a long time, but didn't come up with a good way to do it until recently. I started by 'cheating'; I just modified Robert Lang's design. I have since then designed another version of the Kabuto mushi using the square diagonally, a version I can more legitimately call my own. Its page will be created as soon as I make a presentable model. It is impossible to beat the circle packing of Robert Lang's Kabuto Mushi. In my opinion, his is one of the most elegantly designed origami insects- the grafts that create the claws line up perfectly to form the features on the back and the horns. This version is 95% identical to Lang's Kabuto mushi. It is more awkward to fold, but that's a tradeoff for adding separations between the legs so they don't all come from one point, and increasing the abdomen length to a slightly more accurate size. I also sink the small triangle in back (mesocentrum?) in and out to make a better distinction, pull out some paper in front to create the head, and shape various features differently.
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Crease Pattern
to be released