Jim Clark's Origami Page

NEW! The following photo albums show how to fold models or show models that I have folded. Click on a picture to start. Use the controls to run a 'slide show' or to step through the photo sequence. The photo captions provide instructions, guidance, and suggestions. Use your browser's Back button to return here.


Fancy Square Box - How to Fold	Some Origami That I Have Folded

NEW! On my blog, I describe how I responded to an "Origami Emergency" by folding two crabs (John Montroll's design) and shipping them to a movie director in the UK. Also, More about the Origami Crabs.

Petal-Top Container – folded from any regular polygon; polygons with few sides make a shallow dish, those with many sides, a taller vase. NEW! Try these variations.

Reyes’ Star (folded from a pentagon) – I added curves to a design by Bill Reyes

My origami index — Here is an index to most of the books in my origami library. In most browsers, control-F can be used to search the index. You can search for 'penguin', for example, and find several penguin models. This will be useful if you have some of the same books. You might also use the index to decide if you would want to buy any of the books.

If you find the origami index useful, you may want to download a version of it that you can run on your computer. Download the FindOri.zip file and extract all of the files in the zip file to a folder of your choice. Then run the FindOri.exe program. Enter words that you want to search for, and press Enter. Watch for advice on the bottom line. A new list of found items is separated by a red line, or by a yellow line if 'report mode' is on. Typing control-R toggles the report mode on/off. When the report mode is on, the list of found items are appended to a text file named FindOri.txt.

NOTE: Origami USA was once called The Friends of the Origami Center of America.

Here are links to complete diagrams and instructions (31 pages total) for folding 12 of my origami designs, most published in various books. Page numbers for the books mentioned are given. Also included are complete diagrams and instructions for various polygons. Those marked with an asterisk (*) also include photos.

Also published in Models By Members, Volume 1 (OUSA, 1988):
Snack Dish (p. 88) *

Also published in the 1988 Origami USA Convention Annual:
Coin Purse (p. 197) Jack O'Lantern (p. 280) * Mercury Flytrap (p. 276) Sea Gull (p. 31)

Also published in the 1990 Origami USA Convention Annual:
Eight-Pointed Snap Star (p. 262) * Six-Pointed Pleated Star (p. 265) *

Also published in the 1992 Origami USA Convention Annual:
Pile of Coins (p. 288) * Three-Cornered Dish (p. 338) * 3-D Checkerboard (p. 339)

Not published elsewhere:
Sailboat * Sailboat (updated instructions) *

Seven-Pointed Pleated Star (from a regular heptagon)

Folding polygons from a square:
Equilateral Triangle

Seven Ways to Fold a Regular Pentagon From a Square

Hexagon and 12-Sided Polygon

How to Fold a Regular Heptagon (7 sides) From a Square

Octagon

Here are photos of three-dimensional tesselations that I designed:
with squares with hexagons with 6-pointed stars
(The "3-D Checkerboard" above is also a three-dimensional tesselation.)

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