Ooh, that's pretty; I don't think I have the pattern for that one anywhere.
I've got pix of various kusudama-type things at the link in my previous reply to eeedge, though none of them is the traditional type with a large number of conical segments sewn together through their points at the middle of the ball; instead, all of mine are hollow polyhedra of some sort, some held together with glue and some without.
The one in your pic vaguely looks as if it might be one of those, but otoh the very regular shapes make me think that it may also be a modular dodecahedron of some type, with twelve pentagonal faces connected... somehow. I also suspect that it may require pentagonal paper to be specially pre-cut to achieve the fivefold symmetry; sometimes it's possible to partially mimic that sort of shape when folding from a square, but these look too precise, with no immediately obvious signs of some of the petals being doubled up to hide some extra layers.
ISTR a mention from somewhere in RK when Aoshi gives a kusudama to Misao, but I have no idea of the exact context, much less what it looked like.
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on 2007-08-23 04:43 am (UTC)I've got pix of various kusudama-type things at the link in my previous reply to
The one in your pic vaguely looks as if it might be one of those, but otoh the very regular shapes make me think that it may also be a modular dodecahedron of some type, with twelve pentagonal faces connected... somehow. I also suspect that it may require pentagonal paper to be specially pre-cut to achieve the fivefold symmetry; sometimes it's possible to partially mimic that sort of shape when folding from a square, but these look too precise, with no immediately obvious signs of some of the petals being doubled up to hide some extra layers.
ISTR a mention from somewhere in RK when Aoshi gives a kusudama to Misao, but I have no idea of the exact context, much less what it looked like.