Designed: January 2014 Folded: August 2016 Medium: One uncut square of Deluxe Washi paper. Dimensions: 7 .5" x 1 1.5" x 8.5" (19.05cm x 3.8cm x 21.6cm) Time spent folding: ~ 1 hour
More of a quick experiment than anything, this dragon was nonetheless my first design. I created it after reading Origami Design Secrets for the umpteenth time simply to verify the fact that I finally understood circle packing. The design worked and I quickly moved on to my second design, the flying stick insect. It is interesting to note that the CP here is similar to the basic structure of Satoshi Kamiya's spectacular Ancient Dragon design. In fact, his perfection of this structure is largely why I have not to pursued developing this model further. The model pictured here is folded out of a beautiful paper called Deluxe Washi that can be ordered from origami-shop.com. It is a little thick for complex models, but works well for moderately difficult or simple creations such as this.