another origami box divider
Oct. 14th, 2007 06:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wombat1138(also, heap o' kusudama.)
Four-compartment diagonal dividers for Tomoko Fuse's standard square box; they're pretty similar to the rectilinear dividers from before. However, my practice paper is a bit off-square, so the relative dimensions are somewhat wiggly.
Paper: same-sized square as in each of the box sub-modules.
1.) Valley-fold in half, bringing the top and bottom edges together, then unfold; repeat with the other pair of edges. (The side of the paper inside this valley-fold will be facing up inside the divider.) Similarly, mountain-fold in half to bring an opposite pair of corners together, then unfold; repeat with the other pair of corners.
2.) Turn the paper over. Within each quadrant, locate the center point and fold the outer corner up to meet it, creating an isoceles right triangle. Do this for all four corners.
3.) With both opposing pairs of right triangles, make a long mountain-fold between the corresponding ends of the hypotenuses, then unfold. (Theoretically, only the outer thirds of each mountain-fold need to be creased, but it's easier to explain this way.)
4.) Use the pre-creases from step 1 to collapse the paper into a shape that could be described as either an elongated balloon base or a truncated square base, with the four tucked-up corners on the outside. Fold the top corner of the base (the center of the original square) down to meet one of the tucked-up corners.
5.) Holding the just-folded corner against the side of the base, turn the entire shape upside-down while popping the front and back mountain-fold pre-creases up into sharp folds again.
6.) Settle the entire things down into the bottom of a pre-made box, with a divider end pointing straight into each box corner.
7.) Admire your freshly divided box.Make more boxes.
Four-compartment diagonal dividers for Tomoko Fuse's standard square box; they're pretty similar to the rectilinear dividers from before. However, my practice paper is a bit off-square, so the relative dimensions are somewhat wiggly.
Paper: same-sized square as in each of the box sub-modules.
1.) Valley-fold in half, bringing the top and bottom edges together, then unfold; repeat with the other pair of edges. (The side of the paper inside this valley-fold will be facing up inside the divider.) Similarly, mountain-fold in half to bring an opposite pair of corners together, then unfold; repeat with the other pair of corners.
2.) Turn the paper over. Within each quadrant, locate the center point and fold the outer corner up to meet it, creating an isoceles right triangle. Do this for all four corners.
3.) With both opposing pairs of right triangles, make a long mountain-fold between the corresponding ends of the hypotenuses, then unfold. (Theoretically, only the outer thirds of each mountain-fold need to be creased, but it's easier to explain this way.)
4.) Use the pre-creases from step 1 to collapse the paper into a shape that could be described as either an elongated balloon base or a truncated square base, with the four tucked-up corners on the outside. Fold the top corner of the base (the center of the original square) down to meet one of the tucked-up corners.
5.) Holding the just-folded corner against the side of the base, turn the entire shape upside-down while popping the front and back mountain-fold pre-creases up into sharp folds again.
6.) Settle the entire things down into the bottom of a pre-made box, with a divider end pointing straight into each box corner.
7.) Admire your freshly divided box.