I found this while digging around on the net- it’s called Origami on the Go 2.0, and is theoretically some kind of freeware app for the Palm handheld. I don’t have a Palm, being more chained to the MS product line for work reasons, so I can’t test this- perhaps there is an intrepid reader out there who can download this (purportedly free) application and give it a test run? I’d be interested to hear from you about it, if you do.
you can get it from here:
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Liz Plummer over at Dreaming Spirals has this wonderful origami-inspired book you can make, previously mentioned here.
She has this to say:
By the way, if anyone hasn’t got time to make the books but would like to buy one, I’m selling them for £15 each plus postage, (or $30 US). Email me if you are interested.
So if you want one of this beautiful little books, and you don’t want to take the time to make it yourself, you can buy one!
Another wonderful origami tessellation-inspired landscape work from Mélisande. I think the descriptive title is self-explanatory.
I really enjoy these works of hers, and I hope she continues with this very inspirational line of art!
See previous coverage of this genre here:
Origami Landscape: Stars and Clouds over the Mountains
Dreaming Spirals has this great photo howto on making a Concertina book. It’s two covers with a stack of preliminary bases, flipflopping back and forth in sets of two to make a nice, origami inspired book. the pages expand out and open while you’re reading it! A very cute and fun papercraft, I think.
Liz Plummer (the author of site) has done a great job showing all the steps; I encourage you to give it a look, and think about making someone YOU know a special little book for Christmas! If you’re an origami fanatic like me, I’m guessing you probably have a nice stash of paper squirreled away… now’s the time to break out the lokta, washi, unryu, or whatever and use it for this project.
here’s a few steps to whet your appetite:
UPDATE: Hey! the nice people over at Make: Magazine picked this up on their blog!
Mélisande posted this a while back, and I missed it due to the Thanksgiving holiday here in the States.
It’s a variation on her “cathedral floor patterns”, which has an interesting arrangement of large and small hexagons interspersed with trapezoids. a new and unique tiling, from my perspective.
don’t forget to check out the flip side, as well as the backlit version on her flickr photostream!
you can see her pre-folding sketches on her website, here:
Tokyoahead – Masters of Origami Exhibition, Hangar 7, Salzburg
I found a nice photo gallery of the exhibits from the Masters of Origami exhibition in Austra this year. Since the website for the event was practically unusable due to a horrendous flash design, I found this to be much more approachable.
I had a chance to see the book produced for this event last Sunday at our monthly Origami Minnesota meeting. (thanks Carol!) It’s quite well put together, although as always I would have preferred more images. Not sure it is worth the cost, but I’m more of a blueprint kind of guy, and less a coffee-table-book person.
Here’s a few images from the website:
edit: hotlinked photos don’t work. Sorry, Tokyoahead.com webmaster! my apologies.
Please proceed to the website directly to check out the photos. thanks!
Found this wonderful design via we-make-money-not-art. It’s a flexible, contracting pedestrian bridge by Thomas Heatherwick, which collapses upon itself to create an octagonal shape when not in use. It’s all hydraulics, and it looks fascinating.
He’s also currently working on an innovative Japanese buddhist temple design, based on folded/crumpled/draped fabric:
UPDATED: these additional photos from PingMag!
Melisande on flickr posted this insanely cool mixup of her 3d star tessellation and one of Ralf Konrad’s designs. It’s a grid of 3d star pyramids! unbelieveably cool. I’m in awe of this design.
You might also want to check out her website for more photos and diagrams!
here’s more photos of it:
Jane (mawelucky on flickr) posted this fantastic pinwheel tessellation. she took the pinwheel tessellation I put online a few days back and changed it around, flipping the hexagons to the other side of the paper (a technique she has used quite successfully on several other works).
I think I like this version more, actually.
and here’s the other side:
Saw a blip in my technorati feed- which lead me to Thinking Machine, a blog about a lot of generally fascinating vague concepts that I find particularly interesting. but what really impressed me was that he picked up on the comment I left on the dataisnature.com site. Normally I feel like I can’t convey a single word in an understandable fashion, so it was really good to see that I got a message through despite my verbal fumblings.
Thanks, Warren!
