Butterfly by Robert J. Lang (CA) 121 © 1990 2. Crease the 3. Pinch near the left edge. 1. Begin with the colored side up. Crease the paper in half and turn the paper over. 4. Fold and unfold, but only make the crease sharp where it crosses the diagonal. mi Hl 1 da 6. Fold the left edge to the crease you just made and unfold 7. Use the intersections between the crease from the last step and the diagonals to place these Ure creases, Turn the paper over. 5. Fold the right edge to the intersection of the last crease with the diagonal and unfold. “Turn the paper over. 9. Fold and unfold. 10, Fold a ‘Waterbomb Base. 11. Squeeze in the sides and swing the middle of the bottom edge up to the left 14, Fold two layers to the left in front (one wide, one narrow) and two to the right behind. 15, Repeat steps 11-12 here; they must be performed simultaneously. 13. Repeat steps 11-12 behind. 8. Use the intersections between the crease from step 5 and the diagonals to place these creases. 12. Squash-fold. 16, Repeat steps 11-12 behind as well122 17. Open out 18. The opened flap forms a __19, Fold two flaps 20. Repeat steps the top of the shallow, downward-pointing (the large triangular 17-19 on the left and near right flap. cone; closed-sink the top of the flap and the narrow on each side of the cone upward (1, push from trapezoid behind i) back inside the model) and squeeze to the right. the sides of the flap together. Swing it over to the left. 22. Fold and unfold, but 23. Use this intersection as a make each crease sharp only guide to divide each flap into where it crosses the diagonal, PRN fo | set E aS 24, Fold and unfold. 25. Reverse-fold the edges in and out on the existing creases. Be 26, Enlarged view. This is probably careful that you do not trap any _the hardest step in this entire model layers at the top (see next step). (and you get t0 do it six more times!). 26. Elias-stretch the bottom 27, Reverse-fold the two edges points up and out to the sides. down to thebottom again behind. 29. Fold one large and one 30. The model is now 31. Fold one layer down, small flap to the right in front; symmetric. Fold one narrow repeat on the left behind. flap from right to left.123 35. Repeat steps 30-34 on the left 36. Repeat steps 21-28. 37. Fold the narrow flap to side and on each side behind, the right 39. Enlarged view. 40. Pull outa single 41. Pull a single edge Fold a rabbit ear layer of paper. out from the inside. next edge. 45, Repeat steps 39-44 on 46.Sink the 47. Mountain-fold 48, Fold three flaps (one large, the right and twice behind. frontmost two the next two two narrow) to the left in front; corners; donot comers. Repeat _repeat behind. As you do this, repeat behind. behind on the _reverse-fold the front point down corresponding and to the left; reverse-fold the pair of corners. corresponding point behind down and to the right.124 49, Mountain-fold 50. Mountain-fold the frontmost two the next two comers into the pockets just behind them, Repeat behind, corners. Repeat 511. Reverse-fold the four 52. Reverse-fold the four points behind on the large points downward. back outward. Note where the corresponding pair folded edge intersects the rest of corners, of the model 53, Like this. Now we will 54. Fold down the cluster of three 55. Fold one layer work on the top of the points. (You don't need to fold it all the to the left model way down, although it is shown that way in the next step for clarity.) 56. Fold the remaining layer to 57. Reverse-fold the 58. Reverse-fold two the left and simultaneously middle point points each to the left fold the cluster of points back downward to lie and right. up. Repeat steps 54-56 on the alongside the left point. far side, 59. Narrow the legs with valley 60, Fold a rabbit ear from the folds (reverse-fold where the leg top point; repeat behind. ‘meets the body).61. Sink the edge to 62. Reverse-fold the narrow the leg, 63. Pinch the two points on the left (the antennae) and narrow the point on the right (the abdomen). ‘Then rotate the model 1/2 turn. 67. Fold the point back up and undo half of the petal fold. 65. Detail of wing. Squash-fold the edge on the crease you just 68, Fold in half. 69. Reverse-fold the point 70. Fold and unfold. to the inside, locking the Repeat on the far side wingtip together. of the wing. 125126 71. Fold the top edge to the crease you just, made. Do not repeat on the far side. 75. Tuck the white flap into the pleat on the near one; flap A goes into a tiny pocket inside the pleat. 77, Fold down the wings. Bend up the feet at the end of the legs. 72, Mountain fold 73. Valley-fold the 74, Fold a rabbit ear, the near flap comer of the far layer behind. of the wing over the near layer, 76, Repeat steps 65-75 on the remaining three ‘wings. Note that the fore wings (on the right) are longer than the rear wings.