I folded this hexakaidecagon from a plain sheet of 15cm kami, like I used to do back when I started folding origami tessellations. It’s challenging paper to fold, as making 32 creases through the center point leads to a lot of paper turning to mush!
Rather than folding a big twist, I twirled the excess into a spire shape, which I think is much more interesting and organic. It reminds me of the pagodas in Myanmar.
thought I’d share this little fold with you, and enjoy the retro days together.
I’ve been very interested in this work from artist Rebecca Giesieking, particularly this latest piece, “Spiral Bowl”.
Explorations of curved folds and organic structures are quite exciting to see. I look forward to her next work!
-Eric
Spiral Bowl
Lidded Bowl
Experiment with Diagonal Gores
Octagonal Experiment
Bowl
Here are some items which I have photographed over the last few days.
An old design of mine, folded from a sheet of my bio-paper. the diagram for this work is available in this PDF.
A Voronoi tessellation, folded from random points. Generated with pen drops to create the initial state.
The reverse of my stacked triangles pattern, demonstrating once again the dual nature of tessellation geometry. I like the simplicity of this photo.
I owe a long write-up on the bio-paper process that I have been developing over the last several years, but that’s still a ways off yet. More on that to come as the spring progresses and my fermentation room warms up so I can grow more paper.
I’ve had this pattern in my head for a long time now, and only recently was I able to realize it in a way that was satisfactory to me. It uses a combination of the hinged-pleat flagstone style and the traditional straight-pleat style that origami folders are used to.
It’s based on a traditional Islamic tiling which I have always been fond of, and it’s my pleasure to share the crease pattern with you.
You can download it here in a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licensed PDF.
Last November, we had a chance to meet up with French artist Vincent Floderer, at his home and studio in southwestern France.
I had always wanted to meet Vincent – his crumpling techniques and artistic style are unique, and extremely appealing to me in their wonderful organic style. I found him to be even more amazing in person than I could have imagined, and he gave me a lot to think about with regards to my own work.
Here’s a few selected images and a short video clip from our visit, and some additional images from one of Vincent’s gallery exhibitions with Viereck Verlag last June.
Saw this beautiful piece by Imagirom, a newcomer to our Origami Tessellations group on Flickr.
He’s been folding some great things lately, and this one really struck me. I like the way it’s an abstract representation of some real things, it goes beyond the normal sort of pattern and becomes something even more.
It’s gorgeous, isn’t it?
Here’s a basic crease pattern for a dodecagonal flagstone pattern, overlaid on top of a triangular grid.
The spacing between the hinges is not equal all around the dodecagon, but the actual tessellation itself is the proper dual of the 12.12.3 tessellation (two dodecagons and an equilateral triangle.)
What that means is we get two really big spiky 12-sided things and smaller triangular twists between them.
I haven’t tried it but if you actually squashed these they would probably overlap! I like them in their "uncollapsed" state, as I think they are more interesting as rigidly foldable constructs…
If you want to download the PDF version of this file, you can get it here:
www.origamitessellations.com/docs/dodecagon_flagstone.pdf
Here’s the folded version:
I recently finished this piece and sent it off for a show in Ohio (The FAVA Folding Festival, organized by James Peake and Ray Schamp). I think it’s making it’s way from there to another show later on in the year at the Sandusky Cultural Center, also in Ohio.
On top of that, I’m going to be in Ohio later on this summer for the first Midwestern origami convention- creatively titled “Centerfold“. (Being in Minnesota, I’m not so sure that I think of Ohio as the “center”, but I digress.) So I seem to be interacting with Ohio quite a bit this summer. Looking forward to meeting some new people while I’m out there visiting!
There’s a good amount of behind-the-scenes work going on here in the studio as of late, with some very curious constructions coming together and a lot of large-scale work being done… photos and more info to come soon. It’s going to be quite a sight.
hope all is well, let’s talk again soon, my friends~
-Eric
Hi everyone,
I’m getting all packed and ready to head off to Japan tomorrow for the JOAS convention this weekend in Tokyo! They’ve honored me quite a bit by inviting me there as a guest, and I hope to make it a very tessellation-centric time 
I’m looking forward to meeting lots of new friends!
I thought I’d post a crease pattern, as it’s been quite a long while…
Rhombic Flowers CP
So here’s a full CP for a design a did a while back called “Rhombic Flowers”. I’m not sure I have a finished model of this pattern, it’s just an idea that was kicking around my head; but it looks pretty neat, using rhombus twists to make star shapes. A good exercise in playing with rhombic twists, for sure
Let me know what you think! It’s on a 64 pleat grid, but by no means do you need to start so large. a 32 grid would be perfectly fine to start, bonus points for doing it on hexagonal paper. (You’ll like the final pattern better if it is even all around.)
Enjoy!
Rhombic Flowers CP in PDF format
Rhombic Flowers by Eric Gjerde is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at www.origamitessellations.com.
