Archive for February, 2006

Photo pages update

not a huge deal, just upgraded to the latest version of FAlbum (0.6.4, in case you’re interested).

It directly ties your flickr pages and photos into your WordPress blog, which just works amazingly well. It’s had a bunch of new features and updates installed, including permalink-friendly titling options, photo size choosing just like Flickr, the ability to add/change comments and titles from the web pages directly, etc.

If you’re using WordPress at all, it’s really worth using. I highly recommend it.

(And my apologies to the swedish reader who was browsing through all the photos! I cut you off mid-browse. Sorry about that. It should be all better now.)

-Eric

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Tessellations Galore @ Orimeeting in Santiago

Jose posted this large gallery of photos from the recent Orimeeting in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

The best part, though? He put up another whole section of tessellation photos! There are some really beautiful ones in here, including quite a few that I have never seen before- designed by people I have never heard of. Time for me to start doing some research!

Tessellation Gallery Link

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Folding the Impossible, redux

tessellated stars, by Origomi

Took the “impossible” folding routine to a larger scale, and I was quite pleased with how it turned out.

Rest assured, though, that I won’t be incorporating cutting into my future work- I think this was a one-time thing just to satisfy my desire to see this pattern realized in paper.

And, as always, something new was discovered in the folding of this, which hopefully will allow me to achieve some previously unobtainable goals.

Happy folding!

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infinite hurricanes

infinite hurricanes - close-up

Originally uploaded by origami joel.

Joel folded a tessellated version of a design by infinite-origami on flickr. It looks like it was an absolute terror to fold!

Congratulations to both of you, on coming up with such an interesting concept and taking the time to fold it out.

Keep up the good work!

reverse side:

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Folding the Impossible

Folding the Impossible

Originally uploaded by Ori-gomi.

So, I found a way to fold non-convex polygons.

But it requires some unorthodox steps…

can you figure out what I did?

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links for 2006-02-25

• Triangular Number — From MathWorld
  interesting numbers and things that they do. I’m jumping in to learning Mathematica (again!) so if you’re disinterested in all things math, just ignore these posts…
  (tags: math triangular numbers geometry)
• Tiling in Grand Marais, MN
  a little news story from a town in my state near our favorite campground. I need to check out some of these people the next time I’m up there.
  (tags: grandmarais MN minnesota tiling mosaics)

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The 14 Different Types of Convex Pentagons that Tile the Plane

Posting this, as several people have been playing around with pentagons lately:

The 14 Different Types of Convex Pentagons that Tile the Plane (at mathpuzzle.com)

a wonderful set of visual examples of the 14 known tilings.

I found (re-found?) this site, from another site I have bookmarked- Marjorie Rice’s pentagonal tessellation page:

http://home.comcast.net/~tessellations/tessellations.htm

worth looking at as well, especially this design…

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Pentagonal tiling ideas, and Getting Things Done

I’ve been trying some different ideas with pentagonal tilings as of late, and this is one of the more successful ideas that came out of the exploration.

It reminds me a lot of a pattern made by Melisande: butterfly tessellation (on flickr.)

You can see my attempts to recreate the original pattern using voronoi tessellations here:

which I also mentioned on this blog post a few days ago.

ah- you can also see Melisande’s folded version here:

Anyway, I had shelved the ideas for the time being, as my efforts to obtain the proper tiling using that particular set of angles was proving to be infuriating; things like 105 degree angles just aren’t easy to fold.

So after setting that aside, I came across a mosque tiling from Iran which had a particularly interesting dodecagonal tessellation (more on these later, when I can post more photos & give it the proper writeup it deserves). In an attempt to generate a slightly easier variant of that mosque tiling, I came up with one of the pentagonal shapes you see here- the one that looks wider, more like a crabshell. It was intriguing, and after some playing around I realized it would make the same type of tiling I had been trying to accomplish before.

It’s funny how things like this tie together in unexpected ways, isn’t it? I find that my mind does it’s best thinking when I intentionally stop working on something and put it down for a day or two, while purposefully avoiding thinking about it.

I’ve read that our subconscious brain is really the good decision maker, and that our conscious mind is only good for things like making tea, tying shoes, and other daily tasks. I suppose this might be true when it comes to making odd connections between different artistic sources and inspirations, too.

I still have a hard time thinking of this paperfolding habit/addiction/affliction of mine as art; although it would seem that some people do think of it that way. It’s flattering, but I don’t fold these things for display purposes- it’s more of a way to get the ideas out of my head, into a real physical form, where they can be used by other people or at least just stop bothering me by rattling about inside my thoughts.

Lately I’ve been reading the book “Getting Things Done”, (or GTD for short, if you want to be a cool geek) which has an item at it’s fundamental core of removing ideas from your conscious thought and committing them to paper, as a way of organizing your thinking and your life. I think this is a valuable concept, which I’m hoping I can implement; at least with regards to certain projects in my life which have popped up as of late. Forcing myself to extract origami ideas and write them down gives me the opportunity to peruse them later when the time is right, instead of when I’m halfway through a 3 hour meeting (don’t ask).

Anyhow, just thought I’d share some news with you. Hope your week is going well and your weekend is productive and fun- I have some serious office-cleaning to do, so I can’t say I’m looking forward to it that much!

-Eric

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links for 2006-02-22

• Origamian Blog Japan(仮) - 受信箱
  origami blog pulling in posts from many other origami blogs in Japan.
  (tags: japanese origami blog)
• Phiculator, the Golden Ratio calculator from Thismanslife : Design, Graphics, Photography // James Mellers, Nottingham UK
  Exactly what it says! a free software calculator for Phi.
  (tags: calculator math software free phi goldenratio fibonacci design)

Sorry for the dupe link- whatever I post to my del.icio.us bookmarks gets posted here. I try to avoid the duplication, but sometimes it happens. In this case, I didn’t want to forget the location of the Phiculator! -Eric

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tessellated origami brooch

Jose sent me a link to this wonderful origami brooch he made.

It’s great to see ideas take root and grow! keep creating and sharing your work. it’s great!

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