In the early 1990s, members of the Origami Tanteidan Convention in Japan began a unique competition. The first year, one origami folder brought a model of a six-legged bug. The next year, another folder added antennae. Each year, the models became increasingly complex, as origami enthusiasts from around the world joined the fray. Beetles became winged beetles. Winged beetles became winged spotted beetles. And so on.The competition accelerated when an American, Robert Lang, created a computer program that could generate blueprints for extraordinarily complex origami models. Models went from 30 or 40 steps to hundreds of steps. As a result, this changed the entire art of origami folding.Bugs continue today to be a favorite subject for origami artists, and this book both describes the original challenges that stretched the art and also includes 12 original contemporary bugs (including one master-level project) designed by some of the most talented origami artists today from around the world—with detailed step-by-step instructions to make them.