Monthly Archives: January 2006

Star/flower tessellation, flower side, backlit

Originally uploaded by Melisande*.

Beautiful work from Mélisande.

I really like this design! clean, visually engaging and appealing.

Here’s the reverse:

• Origami Scale Model
  A site that sells customized origami models for business promotional purposes. Kind of like a papercraft thing, but without cutting. interesting concept. they have a few models you can download to check out.
  (tags: origami papercraft model paperfolding)

I received an email from Florent, looking to identify this origami design and hopefully find diagrams for it.

It looks like a modular piece, but with a rather unique folding structure; somewhat like a hexagonal rose.

While I am obsessed with geometric origami and lighting, I can’t say that I know the creator of this piece… anyone out there have an idea? contact me.

UPDATE: I queried the Origami-L mailing list, and got many useful replies from people who have identified it. the most concise is here, from Sky:

Aperture – folded paper by Claire Norcross.

Claire Norcross has created lampshade designs that give different light
patterns depending on how they are folded.
She also gives lessons in origami in design.

She taught this lamp a while ago at The Hub in UK – www.thehubcentre.org

-Sky

Thanks also to Mark Bolitho and Peter Mielke for the tip-off and the link:

http://www.habitat.net/uk/main_uk.htm

• Projektor
  Great lamp idea for using with tessellations, don’t you think?
  (tags: origami tessellations lamp design lighting projector projektor)
• nan (not a nerd)
  Blog of Jose Luis Gonzalez (aka enveloop). Very interesting guy, with some great ideas. Does some fun things with others who are into tessellations in Spain.
  (tags: spain origami enveloop music mathematics blog)

dodecagon tess – day

Originally uploaded by origami joel.

Folded by Joel, based on a design by Chris Palmer.

a really interesting work- getting those pleat widths right on the second set of pleats (splitting the 60 degree intersections into 30 degree intersections) would be a real chore, for sure.

I have personally found from my attempts to fold octagonal (and higher) level polygons that you start to get what I would term as diminishing returns- they become much harder to fold, without necessarily adding too much more to the piece.

of course, this 12 sided design is really spectacular, so I’m rethinking my opinion on that a bit.

Anyhow, another wonderful work from Joel- great to see these! Some amazing tessellation skills.

• french origami blog
  French origami blog with wonderfully unique renderings of modern everyday objects (like vacuum cleaners, a rod, a wig, etc)
  (tags: origami blog french wistful)

Seiko creates an Origami inspired watch- named, suitably, ‘Origami’ (折り紙).

• simple paper box that closes and locks 折り紙でゴミ箱を作ろう
  an origami box that closes shut in an interesting way and locks itself closed. simple, fun.
  (tags: origami 折り紙 paperfolding papiroflexia japanese)
• JDN /INTER ACT ART /Origamic Architecture /作品紹介
  Masahiro Chatani’s Origamic Architecture
  (tags: masahiro chatani origamic architecture art paper origami)
• International Origami Society
  japanese-language homepage of the International Origami Society.
  (tags: origami international organization japanese)

Masahiro Chatani’s Origamic Architecture.

Lloyd’s of London (ロイズオブロンドン)

Todaiji Temple-Daibutsu-Den (東大寺　大佛殿)

Cathedral (大聖堂)

While this isn’t origami, it is a very fascinating bit of papercraft.

Masahiro Chatani is really the main founder of this art style, or at least the one who truly brought it to fruition. photos from his site (and links) are above.

From Ingrid’s site, linked below:

Some say that Origamic Architecture is a part of Origami and some say it is not. So one is divided about this issue. This confusion arises because the folding part is essential in making an Origamic Architecture card; by folding, one models a card into shape. However, when a card is made it is primarily done by cutting. Masahiro Chatani consequently calls his books Origamic Architecture.

Now I’m a bit of an origami purist, at least in the “no cuts” category; but that’s more to keep my mind focused, not because I dislike papercraft that involves cutting. Paper in general is a fabulous resource that has unlimited possibilities. Sticking to one sheet with no cuts keeps me from falling over that “endless” abyss, and allows me to focus on maximizing what I can do within my artificial self-imposed constraints. I find the helpful; am I alone in that?

Perhaps that’s why I find this art form so interesting- it has many of the same things (strict limitations, one sheet of paper) as origami, yet it primarily involves cutting. So very different but quite similar at the same time.

some other Origamic Architecture links:

• Ingrid’s origamic architecture site
• Evermore Origamic Architecture with many links. most definitely worth exploring.
• KSK’s Origamic Architecture page
• Kihara’s Gallery
• the DMOZ Origamic Architecture listings (DMOZ is an open web directory service)

I saw this new crease pattern from Darren Abbey today.

he says:

for my personal amusement, I diagrammed an extended version of my fractal origami model.

This version has seven levels.

When folded, it will have 16,384 points.

Not all of the creases are indicated, this is meant as an exercise for the student.

Darren, you are quite insane. it’s wonderful. looking forward to seeing someone (else!) fold it.