Origami - edragon

Origami là nghệ thuật gấp giấy (hay nghệ thuật xếp giấy) có xuất xứ từ Nhật Bản. Chữ origami trong tiếng Nhật bắt nguồn từ hai chữ: oru là gấp hay xếp và kami là giấy.

Eastern Dragon ©1998 by Joseph Wu (Designed ca. 1992. Diagrammed 98-8-26 to 98-10-09.)The Nippon Origami Associations (NOA) magazine, Origami, No. 149 (January, 1988), included diagramsfor a dragon by KITAMURA Keiji. The head was subtle and beautiful, but the body was awkward andclumsy. The model also required two 2x1 rectangles. I took the head design and grafted it onto a longerrectangle to create this eastern dragon.Start with a 5x1 rectangle, coloured side up. (You can use any integer ratio of 4x1 or longer. My longestdragon started with a 12x1 rectangle.1. Precrease into squares (allvalley folds).2. Precrease into half squares(all valley folds).3. Precrease into quartersquares (all valley folds).4. Precrease into eighthsquares (all valley folds).5. Precrease in half.6. Precrease into quarters (allvalley folds).7. Precrease outer quartersinto eighths (all valley folds). Eastern Dragon ©1998 by Joseph Wu (Designed ca. 1992. Diagrammed 98-8-26 to 98-10-09.)Page 28. Precrease outer eighthsinto sixteenths (this time,mountain folds).9. Precrease first eighth intosixteenths (again, a mountainfold).10. Precrease diagonals ofthe first square (again,mountain folds).11. Collapse the outer edgesusing existing creases,forming the dragons hornsat the corners.12. Turn the model over.13. Precrease.14. Precrease. Eastern Dragon ©1998 by Joseph Wu (Designed ca. 1992. Diagrammed 98-8-26 to 98-10-09.)Page 315. Collapse into rabbit ears.Do not crease the horns!16. Precrease. Pay closeattention to which segmentsare the landmarks.17. (Enlarged view.)Precrease. Pay closeattention to which segmentsare the landmarks.19. Form a waterbomb baseusing existing creases.20. Inside reverse fold onexisting crease.18. Fold up the tip of thenose.21. Outside reverse fold.22. Fold up the sides of thehead to form the eyes. Tuckunder the horn.22. Head complete.The colour change can beperformed at this point by flippingthis raw edge under itself. Eastern Dragon ©1998 by Joseph Wu (Designed ca. 1992. Diagrammed 98-8-26 to 98-10-09.)Page 423. Open the body atthe front legs.23a. View from the top(head not shown). Collapseon creases shown, and foldthe two points toward thetail.24a. View from the top(head not shown). Collapseon creases shown, and foldthe two points toward thetail.24. Open the body atthe front legs.25. Valley fold the two frontlegs upward, and the twoback legs forward (note thelandmarks).26. Crimp the front legs.The head section will alsomove. Eastern Dragon ©1998 by Joseph Wu (Designed ca. 1992. Diagrammed 98-8-26 to 98-10-09.)Page 527. Inside reverse fold theback corners of the fourlegs. A corner will stick out.28. Fold the bottom edgesof the tail into the middleusing the existing crease(both sides of the tail).29. Crimp the body and the tail asshown. The marked crimps are outsidecrimps, and the rest are inside crimps.(Outside crimps must be opened upto be formed, much like outsidereverse folds.)30. Fold the feet forward. 31. Pull out some paperfrom the tail.Eastern Dragon ©1998 by Joseph Wu (Designed ca. 1992. Diagrammed 98-8-26 to 98-10-09.)Page 632. (Tail only view.) Foldthe raw edge into themiddle. Repeat behind.33. Inside reverse fold thefront layer only.34. Fold the back layer upand tuck it into the pocketformed in the previousstep.35. Fold the front twolayers into the middle.36. Fold the back layer intothe middle.37. The finished dragon. . Joseph Wu (Designed ca. 1992. Diagrammed 9 8-8 -2 6 to 9 8-1 0-0 9.)The Nippon Origami Associations (NOA) magazine, Origami, No. 149 (January, 1988), included. folds). Eastern Dragon ©1998 by Joseph Wu (Designed ca. 1992. Diagrammed 9 8-8 -2 6 to 9 8-1 0-0 9.)Page 28. Precrease outer eighthsinto sixteenths (this time,mountain