Archive for July, 2005
Origami Tessellations on the Origami Forum July 31st, 2005
I posted a little link on the Origami Forum, located here:
http://www.thekhans.me.uk/phpBB2 (there was a LOT more link there I trimmed out!)
I came across this web forum of origami people! including quite a few people I know, like Gila, John McKeever, Boaz Shuval, etc. (I suppose “know” is being used here in a very casual way!) I’m hoping that I can have some interesting conversations on there. I hope I can wrangle Owesen to sign up if he ever shows up again around these parts.
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Tessellations: all of them. July 30th, 2005
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallpaper_group this covers every regular and semiregular tessellation that we can fold, I think. or all the possible orientations. I haven’t thought through all the ramifications of this, but I’m pretty sure that anything that we can fold fits one of these models. things get a little more complicated topologically since the paper isn’t really “flat”, and there’s more dimensions to the folding, but that’s rather beyond me.
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Tessellation World of Makoto Nakamura July 30th, 2005
I found this through my technorati RSS feed for “tessellations”; it’s “Makoto Nakamura’s Tessellation World”. it has some really neat animated tessellation scenes, and some rather unique ideas. definitely worth a look. it’s all in Flash, so be forwarned if you are flash-free.
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Great new triangular tessellation from Christiane July 27th, 2005
Christiane has a really slick new triangular tessellation online, as well as some great star models based on one of owesen’s puffy star shapes. check it out!
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simple escher-style fish tessellation, v. 2 (backlit) July 25th, 2005
decided to try an escher-style tessellation again after some discussion on the Origami mailing list. this is, obviously, a rather simple model, but something more complex would take more time than I have right now.
this model tessellates across the plane, although it requires two differently sized triangles to fill in some gaps. you can see the tiling pattern here.
I know they don’t really look all that much like fish (more like goldfish crackers, if you’re from the US) but it’s what came to mind. I came up with some more complex figures made up of larger groups of shapes; I’ll try to give some of those a go at a later point in time.
All my diagrams that exist are available online at: www.origamitessellations.com. I only have 4 documents up there currently, but there are more in the works. If I come up with some better fish tessellations I’ll make sure to diagram them!
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folded curve July 25th, 2005
folding curves, made by the intersection of two radiating points in space.
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octagonal star twist, work in progress July 25th, 2005
really ugly paper for an octagonal star twist. but this is what the first tier looks like…
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Wild comb 7 July 22nd, 2005
bees make some very excellent hexagons, too.
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spiral circle July 22nd, 2005
trying to generate a proper set of spiral twists. the circles aren’t correctly spaced here, I need something logarithmic and more “phi”-ish.
Phi is a cool number!
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July 22nd, 2005
some great original star/geometric origami artwork by Carmen Sprung. web page in german.
http://www.origamiseiten.de/o_home.html
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