The mosquito is definitely the most complex model I’ve designed so far. I’d say it falls under the category of complex, perhaps even super-complex, so requires a reasonable amount of experience with open-sink folds, box pleating and so on.

The diagrams were terribly hard to draw

I drew the mosquito’s crease pattern before I folded it, so it was basically designed to be a crease pattern. I’ve done my best with the steps though, and I hope you can follow them. By the way, we’re now using Lightbox, so please click a step image to view an enlarged image – you’ll probably need it

Update: We’re now using prettyPhoto (via the wp-prettyPhoto plugin for Wordpress) to support the new video steps. Many thanks to Stéphane Caron for the prettyPhoto jQuery plugin, and also Pier-Luc Petticlerc for the WP wrapper!
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Some tips for folding the Mosquito crease pattern.

• Fold using a 32 by 32 grid, box pleated.
• Fore and hind legs are made from the corners of the paper,
• middle legs from the sides,
• antennae, proboscis and abdomen from the top and bottom
• and the wings are thick layers from the middle.

Good luck!

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Manuel Sirgo’s Cifocrania (or winged stick insect) is definitely a fine work of art. The crease pattern was also surprisingly easy for such a fantastic result.

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There’s been a slight increase in traffic lately, so I’ve decided to start counting visitors. Let’s see if it ever moves off zero

The counter shows unique visits, not pageloads, so I don’t expect it to climb particularly quickly.

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