Laura, My choices will be very personal and dated. I haven't really been folding "models" much for the last 15 years, and may have too much focus on the models from the Origami Marathon of the past weekend. Most of these do have folding sequences that are interesting, but a few are there for surprising/unique-at-least-to-me structure. Here's just ten:
Toshikazu Kawasaki's Rose (from Origami for the Connoisseur; one of the few things I ever had memorized for a significant period of time) Toshikazu Kawasaki's Pinecone (first fractal-like thing I came across) Jun Maekawa's Clapper Rail (making fingers/toes!) Patricia Crawford's Swan (so elegant and deceptively tricky to get right) Patricia Crawford's Three-masted ship (still a bit mind-blowing) Ligia Montoya's Tropical bird (the second one from Haribin's Origami Secrets---so much from just a few reverse folds) Tetsuya Gotani's Alicorn (just taught this last weekend; I've folded pegasus models that were much more difficult/complicated and without the horn) Giang Dinh's Cat (I don't know if there are any diagrams and cannot fold it from memory, but folding it with him at a convention was magic) Oriol Esteve's Shark (just taught this last weekend) Peter Engel's Valentine Michael LaFosse's Simple hummingbird Well, that ended up being 11; for an extra, Vincent Floderer's Mushroom (as seen in the video on youtube). Oh, and for an action model, Jeremy Shafer's Glancer. I better stop now Thank you for making me go back and look at some books I hadn't opened in so long! Goran On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 9:44 AM Laura R <[email protected]> wrote: > What are the most wonderful models you have folded? > > I mean those that have such a beautiful folding sequence that made you > think there is something magical in it and the creator must be a genius. > > As a friend told me recently, "something that affects the emotions the way > a beautiful painting or fantastic piece of music can”. > > I would like to know your list, five or ten of your favorite. Not > necessarily hyper-complex nor super-simple models, but those with the magic > spark that have made them timeless and classic. > > Thank you > Laura Rozenberg >
