Inscrutable Wyvern

Origami, Original Designs

WKO_047 - INSCRUTABLE WYVERN (104)

Anybody notice the dragons in Game of Thrones are actually wyverns? When I was a kid, it seemed like most mythology books considered them different. Now, wyverns are just dragons with less steps. Maybe they made the terminology more fuzzy to be more realistic.

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My Inscrutable Wyverns have a colour change in the face, kind of like that one pokemon. Also, there’s a range of face possibilities. The purple and yellow one has a face almost like a skull.

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The Inscrutable Wyvern has odd wings, blocky feet, and a split tail. In case you’re wondering, the inscrutable part is from one specific step while making it.

WKO_047 - INSCRUTABLE WYVERN (102)

Crease Pattern Challenge 069

Crease Pattern Challenge, Origami

—Tips on this Crease Pattern Challenge—

Challenge 69 in Issue 125 is Hitoshi Kakami ‘s Leafy Sea Dragon. Kakami also has the website Calico’s Origami Aquarium, which I think I’ve mentioned before. He has a lot of great origami pokemon there. He also did the Coelacanth Crease Pattern Challenge.

OTMCP_069 - LEAFY SEA DRAGON - KAKAMI (102)

This was interesting to fold. On my first run at it, I kept mixing up reference folds/points with folds/points I used to find them.

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The thing is, in spite of what they tell you, many origami models will work out fine using really close points that aren’t exact. You may get some edges you’ll need to adjust, but it’s typically not a big problem.

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This model is very exact. It’s hard to explain, but each fold’s angles strongly depend on the ones around it. This usually happens in smaller regions that can be shifted slightly around. In this one, basically any shifted line changes the whole thing drastically. It’s really neat.

—Tips on this Crease Pattern Challenge—

OTMCP_069 - LEAFY SEA DRAGON - KAKAMI (106)