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Baby Elephant (HP)

baby elephant

Designed and folded July 2021

Paper: 1 square of construction paper treated with mc

A baby elephant. Not too much to say in regards to aesthetics other than that getting the head to look right was as hard as always.


elephant cp

I believe this model has one of the most interesting crease patterns I have ever designed. It is a strange mashup of hex pleating, tilted grid, and unaxial box pleating. It's hex pleating because the creases all lie at angles of multiples of 30 with each other, it feels like tilted grid because it's diagonally symmetric and none of the creases line up with the edge of the square, and it's unaxial because there are no flaps or hinges and the model is essentially an extreme case of level shifters. I suppose this could be referred to as "unaxial hex pleating," a style that I have only seen in one or two other models out there.

Grid: ???? The diagonal is divided into 18ths, otherwise not sure how to call this grid