3D Origami Lotus – Instructions

How to make an Origami Lotus:

We will need a total of 734 units for making this origami lotus model. The split up of the units by color:
Green –  318 units
Light Pink – 240 units
Dark Pink – 126 units
Yellow – 50 units

The tutorial for making the triangular units is given here.

A disclaimer before we begin: The quality of the images are not great… something wrong with my lighting!

Step 1:
We will start by making the leaves of the lotus flower. Start with one green units and increment the number of units by 1 for every row.
 

Step 2:
Keep increasing the number by 1 and inserting rows till you have 7 units in a row.
 

Step 3:
Now start reducing the number of units by 1 for every row till you have one unit. You will get this kind of a rhombus shaped structure. We would have used up 49 units for one leaf.
 

Step 4:
Repeat steps 1 to 3 and make 5 more such leaf units.


Step 5:
Attach two units together as shown. We will use 4 connecting units for two leaves. At least 4 connecting units become necessary to hold the structure well.
 

Step 6:
Similarly attach the six leaf units together.
 

Step 7:
Now we will start making the lotus flower. The step to make the flower is going to be a little different than usual. Generally we start from the bottom of the structure and move upwards. Here we will take a top down approach.
We will be using light pink color units here.
Just like how you made the leaves, start for the flower – begin with 1 unit and keep increasing by 1 for the next row.

Keep adding the units till you have 5 units in a row and then start decreasing the number of units by 1.
 

Step 8:
Make 5 more such units. We will need a total of 6 such units for one flower.
 

Step 9:
Now connect two light pink units together using 1 Dark pink unit. Do you see the dark pink unit at the center?
 

Step 10:
Now fill in using Dark pink units as shown.
 

Step 11:
Similarly keep connecting the light pink pieces together.
 

Step 12:
Finally join the ends together in the same manner.

The round structure gets formed as you can see below.
 

Step 13:
Now add a row of light pink. 30 units will get used up here.


And … 2 more such rows.
The flower is completed.

Just shape the flower a bit at the bottom.
I set the flower at the center of the leaves to see how it looks…already pretty!
 

Step 14:
For the center of the flower, make a ring out of 10 yellow units in each row.
Here are the first 2 rows.
 

Step 15:
Add one more row.
 

Step 16:
Bring the last row downward.
 

Step 17:
Add 2 more rows of yellow. All the 50 yellow units are consumed.

 

Step 18:
Set the yellow modules piece at the center of the lotus flower.

Here is another look of the completed three dimensional modular lotus flower.









REFERENCES :
http://artplatter.com/2012/06/3d-origami-lotus-instructions/