Robert Lang wrote... > A lot of my tessellations and geometrics are folded from weird shapes > (like, really irregular serrated polygons). I just say what they are. Then > people can decide for themselves if they want to stick their personal > label of "origami" on them
I've been making a lot of Fujimoto hexagon flowers from rectangles, and the first step is always to fold the two top corners in to make the 120 degree angle. those flaps are not used later, and make the subsequent folding bulky at those two points. I also see Fujimoto (and others) start with a square, then fold corners in to make hexagons and octagons. There's even a few Palmer models that do it. If you started with an actual hexagon or octagon, you'd get the same result; the extra paper adds nothing to the model aside from "legitimacy" being from a "square." A lot of dollar bill folds do this as well. I've had this hang up for a while, and have resisted cutting off corners and bits to remain "pure." I still balk at making cuts to give extra flaps, or to cut a deer shape out of paper and then fold it in half to make the deer, but I'm encouraged that just because you *can* do it with a square doesn't necessarily follow that you *should*. TLDR: Robert Lang says "relax." Thank you!
