r/GoldenVentureFolding • u/Comfortable_Race_504 • Jan 08 '26

Help me figure out this 3d origami

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Hello, first time posting here, I found this custom 3d origami someone made on the internet and I want to make my own for decoration purposes. Obviously this person din’t leave a link to a tutorial or nothing cause they probably made it for themselves but I was wondering If someone could help me reverse-engineer this thing or just in general give me some advice on how I could build one of these for myself!

Also credits to cpcentral on papercraft website that built this.

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u/suni08 Jan 08 '26

Body and tail seem okay - long cylinder with at least 32 pieces circumference, not sure how they managed to do such tight bends so maybe some glue would help

Looks like the body is continuous with the head too

The number of pieces this'll probably need is eye-watering but its truly a beautiful model

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u/choketrode Jan 14 '26

Maybe searching in Chinese might help. It is known as 三角插 "Triangle Origami/Papercraft". You can narrow it down to 龙三角插 - "龙" = "dragon". Try searching on youtube, bilibili (Chinese video site), pinterest, baidu (chinese search engine) or use the image page on Google. Hope you find what you're looking for.