Challenge #55 is Chuya Miyamoto’s Clown. He stands on a circus pedestal. One half of his outfit is solid coloured and the other has a diamond pattern. He’s holding an accordion. He has neck ruffles, a painted face, and a jester hat. It’s hardly believable that a human could come up with this model. Is Miyamoto actually a sentient supercomputer plotting world domination and origami? Yes.

On my first shot (in purple), I probably used too small of paper (again). I got most of it, but actually inverted the pattern, which both caused the coloured part to be white and vice versa and mirror-flipped the model. I also didn’t quite get the diamond pattern on the leg. At some point, I made the face separately to make sure I got it right.

While making it the first time, I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would. I noted a couple of things and made it again with a few changes and larger paper. The main thing was making a simpler pattern (triangle instead of diamonds) and using what that freed up to make a belt sash. I also changed the costume slightly, where the opposing arm and leg (left and right) have the pattern and the solid arm and leg switch colours.

Tips for folding: If you fold all the corners to the center point, the inscribed square’s grid is 48 (3*2⁴), and most of the rest of the pattern can be determined off of the grid. The only other notable part is that one or two of the lines that cut across the pattern (I think the neck ruffles) has/have the wrong polarity on the crease pattern (a mountain fold should be valley or vice versa).