Origami Design Secrets, 2nd Edition

The magnum opus of one of the world’s leading origami artists, the second edition of Origami Design Secrets reveals the underlying concepts of origami and how to create original origami designs. Containing step-by-step instructions for 26 models, this book is not just an origami cookbook or list of instructions—it introduces the fundamental building blocks of origami, building up to advanced methods such as the combination of uniaxial bases, the circle/river method, and tree theory. With corrections and improved illustrations, this new expanded edition also covers uniaxial box pleating, introduces the new design technique of hex pleating, and describes methods of generalizing polygon packing to arbitrary angles.

With coverage spanning the foundations of origami construction and advanced methods using both paper and pencil and custom-built free software, Origami Design Secrets helps readers cultivate the intuition and skills necessary to develop their own designs. It takes them beyond merely following a recipe to crafting a work of art.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Building Blocks
Chapter 3 Elephant Design
Chapter 4 Traditional Bases
Chapter 5 Splitting Points
Chapter 6 Grafting
Chapter 7 Pattern Grafting
Chapter 8 Tiling
Chapter 9 Circle Packing
Chapter 10 Molecules
Chapter 11 Tree Theory
Chapter 12 Box Pleating
Chapter 13 Uniaxial Box Pleating
Chapter 14 Polygon Packing
Chapter 15 Hybrid Bases