Moreover, the new bird base occupies exactly a quarter of the new paper size: Quite amazingly, the new design is still made of 22.5-degree lines. 9, we see that he mirrors the triangle making up the rump of the horse and builds the smaller bird base around its tip: What he wants to do with the next version is to enlarge the smaller bird base, which forms the hind legs, without modifying the larger one. The easiest way to find its size is from the outside, using the fact that the entire design is based on 22.5-degree lines:įrom these elements, we can now draw the entire CP: Instead, it is enlarged and encroaches on its neighbor. The larger bird base could have been encased in the square opposite the smaller one, with no overlap.

If we include the structure in the opposite corner, we can actually see what is called a little bird base (in red): The size of that corner can be found with a kite base: The smaller one is encased in a corner of the paper. 7) was made of two interlocking bird bases. Here, we will use three quarters of the side: He starts by reducing his previous CP to a limited portion of the paper (Fig. In this last step, he takes his previous version of the horse and sets out to increase the size of the hindquarters for a fuller aspect. I would like to analyze here the last step of this evolution, using Origami Draw. He details the evolution of a horse model through several iterations. The process he describes allies aesthetic considerations –illustrated with perspective views of his models, with technical considerations –illustrated with Crease Patterns. Since that issue of the magazine has become difficult to obtain, he was kind enough to publish a new, annotated version on his website in 2016 (in Japanese). Hideo Komatsu wrote one in 1999 for Tanteidan Magazine No. There are few articles explaining the process of designing new origamis.

Horse origami