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Squid vs Whale
Designed May 2016, refolded with better paper November 2019
Paper: 40cm tissue foil
I came up with this design when I was 12, and so for quite some time this was by far my best design. Back in middle school we did a squid dissection in class one time, and so for a few months after that I had an odd fascination for squids, and designed a few other "Squid eating ____" models... most of which did not turn out very well in retrospect.
(Forgive the poorly drawn cp, it was drawn before I completely understood what I was doing)
I believe the other reason why I was making so many squids was because they're relatively simple. From
a bp point of view, a squid is just a center flap for the body with 8 small flaps (arms) and 2 long
flaps (tentacles), perhaps with eyes too but that's about it. You don't have to worry about level
shifters either. Thus, all I had to do was pack all the flaps, and the design was basically done.
The weird bird base in the bottom right was to squeeze in the squid's second eye. At the time I didn't
understand how pythagorean stretches work, but I knew enough to know that it was indeed possible
to squeeze in a small flap in the gap, so I just fudged something up, mushed it up and hid it in the layers,
and made it work somehow.
I did know how to do a natural color change for the whale, though. That was cool.
Grid: 40x40