Handmade origami Snapology ball. Illustration of steps to fold a sphere with paper strips.

The origami tutorial of the Snapology ball starts with a high-end and domineering finished product with a gradient effect.

Strictly speaking, this ball is not considered origami, it should be counted as a piece of paper (?) The basic folding method is very simple, and there are many variations of the finished product, so let’s show the finished product first.

Come on with some contrasting colors.

You can also add some flowers.

It can be very mini.

Can also be very large.

You can also use your imagination to create various shapes.

First we need to prepare paper strips, as long as they are of the same width. Here we use 16 equal sections of A4 paper.

Cut into strips of paper.

Take two intersections.

Fold the top part back.

Fold the other strip back as well.

Keep folding and folding, as if you were making an origami spring.

After opening it, we get two strips of paper with grids.

What I folded is a ball composed of pentagons and triangles.

There are two types of modules that make up this ball, one is pentagon and triangle (the red paper I used), which are cut into 10 and 6 grids respectively (i.e. number of sides * 2)

The other is the connection module (green), which is the module used to combine pentagons and triangles. It requires 4 grids.

The connecting modules are each bent in the same direction, and the structural modules are folded into triangles and pentagons.

The assembly of the two modules is as shown above.

Give you two reference data:

Basic style 1 is all triangular:

Structure module (triangle)=20

Connection module=30

Basic 2, pentagon and triangle:

Structure module: pentagon=12

Triangle=120

Connection module=210

The connection module here uses two colors, blue = 60 around the pentagon and green = 150 for the rest

The following is a semi-finished product, exactly half done.

You can complete the rest by yourself. Although it is a little complicated, it is actually not too difficult!