—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.
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.
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.
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—
Caged Scorpion Origami 
Hi Caged Scorpion,
I am a big fan of your works, especially CP challenges from Tanteidan that I have wanted to “conquer”. Can I get some help with reference points from the Leafy Sea Dragon by Hitoshi Kakami? Please email me if that’s okay
Thank you very very much.
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Hi! It’s funny, but you’re actually not the only person who’s asked about Kakami’s Leafy Sea Dragon. So I decided to make a whole thing about the reference points and some stuff I thought interesting.
https://cagedscorpion.com/2020/06/08/crease-pattern-challenge-069-update/
I can still e-mail you, but that might help to start. Let me know how it goes!
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