Yay! Russian origami bloggers!
http://www.livejournal.com/users/elha/!
Здравствуйте, мой Русский оригами друг!
Sorry that’s all just so very wrong, but I have a hard time remembering the proper russian syntax…
-Эрик Джэрди
I really, really don’t like blogs. web pages I like, but the whole “blog” concept with a gazillion useless tacky bits on the page annoys me.
So since my previous template was geting stranger and stranger in how it didn’t work, I’m cheating and just pasting in someone else’s nicely pre-made template. my bad. I don’t think the 2 people who even look at this site care that much 
Seriously though, a lot of you keep coming here because you’re doing google searches for “origomi” instead of “origami”. I’d suggest the following links:
www.origami.com
www.paperfolding.com
money origami
Bob Nienhuis’s money origami page
www.origami-usa.org
folds.net easy origami tutorials
www.oriland.com
Origami Underground (origami models for adults only)
British Origami Society
Marc Kirschenbaum’s Origami Page
Monkey.org tells you how to make an origami crane
Meenakshi’s huge page of modular origami diagrams
Sarah’s (of megatokyo fame) origami site
wannalearn.com’s links (many of the same sites, and several more for instructions
Hope that helps you get started down the road to some easy origami folding!
If you are looking for origami tessellations and more complex origami, take a look at the links in the righthand “links” column!
R.Bean over at flickr has a bunch of photos from a south korean paper arts museum… quite a few of them are just mindbogglingly beautiful and creative.
this is a woven paper stool- amazingly attractive to me, and it gets my paper freak inner-self motivated.
She’s got a whole bunch of really cool photos, so make sure you check them out!
I have a new diagram, released today. It’s for my tiled hexagon tessellation. This, and the two PDFs published before it, are licensed under a CC license. Yay for copyleft!
Eleven pages of diagrammy goodness, people. dig in and let me know if it works for you. I really like getting photos from people who’ve completed one of my folds!
http://www.linkagogo.com/go/Members/jpib/Origami.
Saw this in my referrer logs, and it’s just chock full of origami linkage. over a hundred, at least. fascinating!
So I’ve been doing a little thinking and exploring about regular and irregular polygon tiling. I’m working right now on some different models depicting the various methods of tiling regular polygons, which honestly is pretty easy to do- I’ve already done quite a few like this so it’s not a challenge, really. I’m looking to have good examples of every type, and to fully depict the possibilities more than anything.
I’ve also been trying to fold tessellations made up of arbitrary angles. I really shouldn’t call these tessellations, as they aren’t, but maybe something closer to aperiodic or chaotic tilings. there’s a LOT of math involved, most of which I don’t understand anymore, so it’s slow and irritating going. but I have found some interesting facts which prove and disprove some things for myself, so I figure that any increase in understanding is a good thing.
I’m taking the next week+ off from work, so hopefully I’ll have a few quiet moments to sit back and think about some of these things and discover some new things (new to me, anyway. there’s nothing new under the sun.)
-Eric
tiled hex tessellation
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1st step: pre-crease paper to preferred level of crease width- I’d
suggest 4 iterations of folding, minimum. (that’s 1/2, 1/4, 1/8,
1/16; 1/32 or higher will yield better results).
2nd step: identify “central” hexagon. it should have a two-pleat-
width radius from the center of the hexagon. This “central” hexagon
can be the exact center, or offset if that’s what you prefer. actual
location is irrelevant to the final pattern, although symmetry is
usually a preferred result. see illustration.
What we are doing with this fold is creating a valley around every
hexagon shape, which results in a tight grid of hexagons across the
entire paper. we’re folding the extra “valley” paper into the
triangular squash twist folds. see illustration.
3rd step: identify the two-pleat-wide “valley” that encircles your
central hexagon. This needs to be folded into a one-pleat-high
mountain fold all the way around; at the hexagonal vertex points, you
will need to fold it into a 3-way intersection. This also requires
that you fold the 3rd angle at the intersections into the same sort
of mountain fold- this should extend straight out from the vertex of
the hexagon. see illustration.
incomplete!
I found this link while digging around trying to find out what happened to Helena Verrill’s site(s). it’s for Ralf’s Origamipage, at http://www.origami-online.de/index_de.html.
Take a look at his tessellations- some of them are very, very complicated pieces of work! quite stunning. I really like all his folding with triangular creasing, as I think that the triangle/hexagon combo is really the way to go for great tessellation patterns.
Gila O. over at flickr took the spread hex tessellation and did a squash twist on all the 3-way crease intersections. it looks great, in my opinion.
Gila is a one-woman tessellation folding machine!
I have a set of diagrams that I came up with for my tiled hexagon tessellation, which makes up the background of this webpage. It’s a fold that I always enjoy making, and it’s relatively easy to fold as well.
I’m looking to have some folks go through it and let me know what’s easy/hard/needs to be fixed/etc. I have a few very nice people who are already doing this for me, and I’d like to get some more feedback so I can try to make a better template to use for future models. If you’re interested please drop me a line at origomi@mac.com and I’ll send it to you. Thanks!
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