Design: February 2014 Folded: February 8, 2014 Medium: One uncut square of homemade tissue-foil. Dimensions: 4.5" x 3" x 4.5" (11.4cm x 7.6cm x 11.4cm) Time spent folding: 3.5 - 4 hours
Rhinotia hemistictus is a common type of Weevil known as the Long Nosed Weevil. Shortly after learning to make my own designs, I found a photograph of one of these intriguing insects while browsing the web for design ideas. What exactly about a weevil - and not just any weevil, but specifically a long-nosed, flying one - it was that my thirteen year old self gravitated towards, I'm not sure. I was an odd child. At any rate, it became the fourth thing I attempted to design and fold myself, and I have since been pleased to discover that this subject seems to be otherwise unrealized in the origami world. This is my first and so far only attempt. I have since created some CPs for longer legged, more realistically proportioned versions, but have not yet folded these. I felt that this was a pretty decent result for a first attempt, especially considering some of the disasters I have produced overtime with considerably more experience under my belt, so when I finished folding the model I was extremely happy with it! Now I would make the legs longer and space them closer together, make a bigger nose, and add more defined segments to the abdomen. On a painful note, I completed the model shown in the picture less than thirty minutes before breaking my wrist roller blading.
The design components of the circle packed CP. Although this illustration was generated with Tree Maker, Inkscape and Photoshop, I designed the model by hand.
The final crease pattern. Although this CP isn't really that bad, even despite all of the modifications from my original to make it flat foldable (my earlier designs often had some rather "creative" crease assignments) it is not very conducive to an aesthetic final result. This does not include the folds used to thin the base.