Brian Chan folded this amazing model of his late dog, Amber.
I think it’s one of the best representational origami models I have seen, ever.
And definitely one of the cutest!
my apologies, Brian- I knew that your dog passed away, but somehow I didn’t put the two together until Boaz reminded me. This design makes a wonderful tribute, indeed.
James Mellers created this wonderful calculator for Phi.
It allows you to calculate the proportion for any given number to Phi, so you can find the Golden Ratio for any given number you choose! Much fun, and very Phi-tastic.
It’s a free download for Windows, Mac, and anything else that can play Flash.
Thanks for the great little tool, James!
via Make: Blog
Just saw this posted by Jane earlier today- it’s a wonderful work in progress using rhombic twists to make a great star pattern.
looking forward to seeing this thing tiled out on a larger scale!
keep up the good work, Jane!
Trying to figure out some tessellations; I found a really convenient tool for tiling.
well, somewhat convenient- I’d really prefer a more rigid location mechanism, but right now I’ll take what I can get.
If someone out there can explain to me how to accomplish this sort of thing in Mathematica, I’d be deeply indebted to you.
-Eric
oh! the applet is located here.
I uploaded two crease patterns and some basic info on a star design by Shuzo Fujimoto; here’s my flickr post on the photo shown above.
I don’t really know what the title of this piece is; I saw a crease pattern in a book, and some basic illustrations of the finished design. This is my best effort at recreating the crease pattern and folding sequence, which I think comes out to be very close to Fujimoto’s finished design. I have no idea how he handled some of the collapses, so I did them in the method that makes the most sense to me.
This design is very similar to the star twist v2 I made a while back; this is actually the layout I had been trying to accomplish when I designed that piece. I knew it could be done, but the method has eluded me- and now I know that Fujimoto folded it back in 1976, two years before I was even born.
The folding on this model is really somewhat difficult- I actually folded a partial crease pattern first to get the methodology down, and figure out how I would do it; after that, it was pretty easy. Some of the steps seem illogical but make sense once you understand how it all works. I’d diagram it for you but I don’t particularly want to bring down the origami copyright nuts on my head, so you’re left to your own devices- but I’ll post the crease pattern. I’m not guaranteeing that it’s remotely accurate, but it works out for the pattern I folded here.
Diagram PDFs available here:
http://www.origamitessellations.com/diagrams/star-by-shuzo-fujimoto/
I just installed automatic machine translation for my blog- you can now autotranslate into German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese.
what a handy little plugin- just click the flag in the upper right hand corner! and you can bookmark the translated pages, no less. very cool.
I notice a lot of visitors running my site through Google and Babelfish translations, so hopefully this will save those folks some time.
Thanks to CW @ futurefeeder for the great plugin tip.
