origami star pyramid

as promised, here is some of what I’ve been inventing for the past couple of days.

I’m calling it a star pyramid, and it is an origami… thing that I designed from one piece of paper. it ends up being about 6 in square when using 9 in square paper.

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making one involves dividing up the paper in 64ths diagonally (this is the horrible part):

then pleat folding in a spiral pattern starting in the middle:

continuing outwards with the zigzag pleating:

then when there is nothing more to fold, it’s done. throw it under a book and tada:

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