Manual origami five-pointed three-dimensional star tutorial illustration

Pentagonal three-dimensional star origami, this is an origami five-pointed star tutorial suitable for beginners. If you want to learn five-pointed three-dimensional star origami, then follow our illustrations of how to fold a five-pointed three-dimensional star!

Steps:

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   A. This is the front side of the paper

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   B. This is the back of the paper.

   As you can see, the back is not shiny compared to the front.

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   C. There is an instruction on how to make a regular pentagon out of square paper.

   You can easily get a regular pentagon from the command.

   This is the front face of a regular pentagon.

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   D. This is the back side of a regular pentagon.

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   1. Start with the pentagon right side up.

   Convert all creases to valley or mountain folds, as shown in the crease pattern on the left.

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   2. Flatten the model in the direction of the arrow.

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   3. One mountain fold and three valley folds.

   Define a variable called ε as the ratio of upper height to total height.

   In this example. I'm using 1/4 of epsilon.

   But you can use other values, such as 1/3 or 1/5.

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   4. Then complete three valley folds.

   This set of folds is called the "outer beak fold" in origami.

   Open.

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   4B.

   This is what you get when you complete step 3.

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    5. Open.

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    6. All the creases you need are there.

    You simply emphasize any creases as valley or mountain folds.

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    7. Hint, ε is 1/4 of step 3.

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    8. By changing the value of ε, you can change the shape of the origami star.

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    9. This is a top view of an origami star with ε = 1/4.

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    10. This is a top view of an origami star with ε = 1/2.

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