Spiral origami

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Author

David O’Sullivan

Published

August 3, 2022

I made an observable notebook to generate crease patterns for the flat-foldable origami ‘whirpool spirals’ designed by Tomoko Fuse and presented in chapter 3 of her amazing book Spiral: Origami|Art|Design. You’ll find more details in the notebook.

The picture is an example of the folds it produces, or at any rate of the things you can fold by cutting out and following the crease patterns it produces. You’ll have to do the folding yourself, I’m afraid.

If you’d like an idea of how the fold works without going to all the trouble of actually making one, then visit Amanda Ghassaei’s Origami Simulator and navigate to Examples - Tessellations - Whirlpool Spiral.

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