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Damian Lopez

Its not kirigami, he only cutted the paper to get a Octagonal shaped sheet of paper... he didn't cut it to do the origami... only to make the paper needed

hyuwaxe123 it depends on your definition of origami... I was considering the starting point to be a square sheet of paper... besides, multiple sheets were used and the stem (i recall) contained a wire.

Origami is the art of paper folding not an object. The object is merely a representation of the art. Obviously pieces that transform a sheet of paper into a 3D object demonstrate this art to a much higher level than cutting, gluing ect. Naomiki Sato designed the rose after seeing the Kawasaki rose. One of the limitations to that rose is that by using a square piece of paper you finish with an even number of petals where an actual rose is divided into 5. Talking about the original paper size - I've seen origami made from rectangular pieces of paper. While square is the most common base it's not what defines origami.

You don't need to start from a square for your work to be origami. Besides, the result is nothing to be ashamed of, be it "true" origami or not.