Then there's some weird stuff toward the end. Mammoth - BORING, except for the cool closed sink. Okay there are some funky closed sinks and unwraps.
Just really really good and super complex. My favorite T-Rex in all of origami.ĭivine Dragon - Not really that hard. Tyrannosaurus - Has an open sink that will drive you out of your mind. The hard thing about it is that it's 3-D. Smilodon - Not hard at all if you use foil. Orca - Should be higher on the list, but it is so creative, and the ingenuity just makes it that much easier to get through.Ĭoelophysis - It's harder than you may think.
Forming the hooves is the only really difficult part. Some really cool complex (but not hard) collapses. Inoshishigami - The pleating is kind of tricky, but it's really cool how it all comes out. Pegasus - Cool to fold, but it just doesn't look that great. More like a Kawahata or Miyajima piece than your typical Kamiya fare. The legs do get kind of thick.Įagle Ray - Just be careful of the paper tearing when you make the spine.Ĭarnotaurus - Very straightforward. Note: apart from ranking Splash! as the easiest, plastgeek's list and mine are nothing alike. With all that said, here is my ranking of difficulty in order from easiest to hardest. The Bahamut is one of my favorite pieces, so it is not difficult for me to fold it. 1 ref Summary: This mini-book (only 512 inches high) was sold (for 1.19) next to the. What makes something hard to fold? Does it mean something that is hard to fold from a certain size? (In that case the dragons are pretty hard) Does it mean something that is hard to make look good unless you use special ultra-thin paper and mold the heck out of it? (Pegasus) Does it mean something that is just not the least bit of fun to fold so you want to stop? (Blue whale) Or something with a boring fold sequence? (Wizard and Mammoth). The pioneering work was done by Bangham and Horn of England. It is also the only one that I have never fully folded. I would consider the Blue Whale the hardest piece in the book. First off, different people have different perceptions of difficulty. The magnum opus of one of the worlds leading origami artists, the second edition of Origami Design. It's hard to really order them in order of difficulty. Works of Satoshi Kamiya 1995-2003 (Origami Book).