Archive for December, 2005
La ronde des cocottes December 31st, 2005
Mélisande posted this great new work, titled “La ronde des cocottes”. It’s something like a tessellation of pajaritas, which I particularly enjoy. Click the pictures for linky goodness.
But my favorite part is this: she uploaded a photo showing her workflow process, and how she goes about creating a new work of art.
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Ferry Meewisse’s polygonal designer bags December 30th, 2005
Ferry Meewisse pointed out that the hexagonal leather purse is only 60 euros, which is indeed a reasonable price to pay for a designer bag.
There’s a large selection of different polygons- I am quite impressed! I owe a large apology for assuming it was overpriced.
Anyone notice a similarity between this 
and that first purse? I know it’s just coincidence, but it’s interesting how people who think about folded objects sometimes think of the same things!
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Joel Cooper December 28th, 2005
I posted something about Joel Cooper previously, a few days ago. I was very pleased when he responded to my post, and furthermore sent me a few photos of his work. With his permission I am sharing them here with you. (Click the photos for the full-size version.)
He mentioned via email that the masks he has worked on are different than anything he’s seen so far- and I agree with him completely. I think the use of tessellation techniques to arrange a polygon mesh for the purposes of 3d representation really crosses over into a level of technical folding that I have yet to see anywhere else. I feel this is really some mind-blowing material. He further says that he has been developing this style slowly over the last three years. I would love to see the progression of designs and explorations that led him to this particular line of thought, and see the development of both the technique and his folding skill! This is a real labor of love.
Furthermore, he has some complex and new tessellation patterns, as well. He’s been folding origami tessellations over the last 5 years, after seeing some of them on the internet. I have to imagine that these models only scratch the surface, and I look forward to hearing more from him about his own work!
With the exception of the Fujimoto “pyramid” (notice the modified design?) these works are all his own creations.
UPDATE:
Joel is also an accomplished artist as well (even though we all know origami is an art form, too). Some googling finds this:
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more open-source origami from origami.oschene.com December 27th, 2005
Phil (I hope he doesn’t mind me calling him Phil!) of origami.oschene.com has updated his “Puff Star” - taking it from pure CP status to a full diagram+photo set, with what I think is a particularly ingenious way of showing the folding/creasing process without spending 100 years making step-by-step diagrams.
I heartily recommend that you go download his latest work, and thank him heartily for giving us all another great example of what it means to actually share, rather than hoard.
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Flower Tessellation December 27th, 2005
infinite-origami on flickr posted this rather interesting tessellation today- it’s a tiling based on pentagonal tiles, with hexagonal spacers. The pentagonal tiles look somewhat like the deltoidal tiles, but different- I’m sure they have a special name but I’m clueless as to what it is.
Anyway, I’m looking forward to seeing the reverse of this piece- there’s a lot of interesting material that is unexplored in the pentagonal tiling space, mostly due to the difficulty of folding it!
This is a nice one that plays well with triangular grid precreasing.
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Variação da Spread Contraluz December 26th, 2005
I’m a few days out of date here, but this is a new work from Jane over at flickr.
As Melisande pointed out in the comments section on this photo:
Another marvelous work of yours !
This central hexagonal twist is a nice feature of many tessellations you’ve made recently, it belongs to you, I think.
I concur! this central twist design appears repeatedly in Jane’s tessellation work, and it’s one of the features that helps me to immediately identify a photo as one of her designs.
We’ll have to come up with a good name for it, since I don’t think she’d like it being called the “Sem Nome twist”…
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Merry Christmas! December 23rd, 2005
I’d like to wish all my friends a Merry Christmas! I’ll be travelling for much of the next week, so there will be pretty random postings for a while. I hope you spend some wonderful time with friends and family and enjoy yourself!
best wishes,
Eric
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links for 2005-12-23
December 22nd, 2005
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Mélisande’s origami site, featuring a large amount of origami tessellations. Many photos, and several diagrams / crease patterns / illustrated folding sequences. some wonderful inventive origami work!
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The flickr photostream of origami artist Mélisande. Wonderful work, especially the origami tessellations!
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Origami Joel, spotted on flickr December 22nd, 2005
came across this post on flickr with the tag “origami” (yes, I see them all- I’m addicted, what can I say?)
I thought to myself, “wow, it looks like he’s folding a tessellation”…
if you look at the picture in full size, you’ll see he’s folding a Fujimoto (tower?) tessellation- you know, that amazingly popular one that everyone seems to fold.
the amazing bit is the fact that his pleats are TINY. it’s crazy. I would love to talk to this guy about his work! and learn some of his techniques, while I’m at it.
Origami Joel, if you come across this post, please get in touch with me- I’d love to get some pointers from you!
UPDATE: see new article with photos about Joel here!
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Roberto Gretter’s origami December 22nd, 2005
Roberto Gretter is an Italian origami folder with some amazing skill, as well as several common interests. His website features many original designs, including quite a few tessellations and geometric patterns.
Since I really have a fondness for geometric tessellated shapes, here’s several of his bowls- which he has also diagrammed, available for download at his site!
Also, here’s a link to one of my favorite designs of his- which he just calls “hexagonal tessellation“.
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