Archive for May, 2006
Origami Tessellations by Momotani! May 31st, 2006
I was tipped off to some origami tessellations by Momotani (Yoshiide Momotani, I think) that were on display at a French origami meeting in May 2006. Here’s a link to the photo album:
I’m hotlinking the two most relevant images below- these will take you to the specific image pages on the photo gallery. There’s a lot of great tessellations here, quite a few of which various members of our origami tessellation group have been folding in the last couple of years. I’ve never seen any of these before, but I have to imagine that Momotani-san has been folding these sorts of things for decades now. It just goes to show you that there’s very little in the geometric origami world that someone else hasn’t thought of before, or folded before, completely independent of what you’ve been up to.
I can only hope I have a chance some day to meet this tessellation maker and admire some of the beautiful art. Anyone with more information on where I could see some more of Momotani’s tessellations, please contact me and let me know!
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More than Just Origami (on MetaFilter) May 31st, 2006
More than Just Origami | MetaFilter
Got a great mention on Metafilter.com, one of my favorite websites. Also a host of other wonderful paper artists, some of whom I had never heard of before- but also of course the marvelous Richard Sweeney.
Unfortunately I don’t have an account, or I’d hop on and do some heavy name dropping- anyone with a MeFi account out there willing to give some plugs for the Flickr Origami Tessellations Group and for Joel Cooper?
-Eric
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3d tessellation class by Tom Hull @ OUSA convention 2006 May 29th, 2006
Tom Hull will be teaching a class on 3d tessellation models and techniques at the 2006 OUSA convention, in June. I’ve really been going back and forth in my mind on whether I would go to the convention or not, but Joel Cooper’s decision to attend (he was awarded the Florence Temko Award, well deserved I think!) has really prompted me to go.
I hadn’t planned on taking any classes, as I’m not really all that into representational origami; but Tom’s class on tessellations, especially ones that I have never folded or explored, has changed my mind! now I have to take classes, for sure…
You can read more about his 2 class offerings on his LiveJournal entry.
-Eric
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Lorenzo and twist theory May 28th, 2006
Some great conversation going on (or just getting started?) on a flickr post by Lorenzo Marchi, talking about origami tessellation type closed twists and the nature of such.
there’s a whole big intersecting dialog here about what can and cannot be created with twists, and I personally can’t wrap my head around it all enough to figure it out. By all means if you have suggestions, post them on Lorenzo’s photo entry, or put them here and I will cross-post them for you (for the Flickr unintiated who are not interested in giving it a try.)
-Eric
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Octagonal Star Geometric Progression May 25th, 2006
Repeating patterns of kites and squares, arranged around a central octagonal star. I really like this particular arrangement of shapes, and hope to some day exploit it further. There are many options as to folding and pleat assignment here, and I hope you’ll allow me the indulgence of sticking to the one that seems most appropriate to my own tastes.
I continue to be inspired by Islamic Art, and the wealth of geometric patterns that exist within the body of that work. However, I’m still in touch with my geometric roots, and my love of fractals- thusly patterns that are able to grow endlessly serve two purposes for me.
1.) They are wonderful patterns that often match designs from ancient buildings and artwork
2.) they are geometric tessellations of a non-euclidean space- something with a fractal dimension that I’m unable to calculate.
This factors in somewhat with the concepts of tessellations of hyperbolic space, but it’s not quite the same. I don’t have the math knowledge to explain it, but it would be something along the lines of a warped dimensional topology which, if met, would allow this piece to be tiled with equal sized pieces, or something to that effect.
I like the shapes, really, more than anything else. I hope you enjoy it too.
This little piece of paper is most certainly destined for some additional decoration, but I haven’t made any good decisions on what it should be. suggestions are quite welcome!
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New Art Purchase May 18th, 2006
We were extremely excited about being able to get this piece, which is going to hang on the wall in our living room once we build a suitable frame for it. (Joel’s frame was good, but we wanted one a little bigger to help tie the room together.)
I’m glad we got there first, as there were other people looking to pick up this piece too. (Sorry about that!)
We both were fascinated by this piece when we saw it online, but once we were able to pick it up in person and hold it, look at it from all angles, etc we knew that we really wanted to take it home with us.
Thanks, Joel, for letting us acquire this wonderful piece!
For those of you who feel left out, Joel has a portfolio page here with a number of available works. Take a look, it’s worth it. We can’t express how much we like this piece and the reaction to it by visitors in our house has been wonderful.
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Aldo Tolino teaches me how to crumple May 17th, 2006
I received a wonderful email from Aldo Tolino- ionoi on flickr- with a link to a YouTube video he created that teaches you how to crumple paper, Vincent Floderer-style.
He says that he learned this technique last year at the Salzburg Origami Masters exhibition, in a class taught by Paul Jackson. (who apparently taught this technique to Floderer, as well!)
I really can’t believe that it’s this easy to do! so much fun. This was my first attempt, using a spare napkin laying around the office kitchen.
The video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bla5c5THSoI
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Silk Cloth by Chris Palmer May 17th, 2006
This is a beautiful and intriguing work by Chris Palmer, from the Bridges 2004 conference. He’s been working primarily with silk and cloth for a while now, it seems, and these photos attest to the depth of his skill. Wow.
More pictures available at:
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sequin/ART/BRIDGES2004/origami/index.html
Thanks for the link, Richard!
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Aldo Tolino, part 1 May 16th, 2006
Check out the beautiful work by Aldo Tolino of Vienna on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ionoi
Wonderful iterative folded surfaces, shapes and other deliciousness.
His blog, here: http://ionoi.blogs.sonance.net/
I’ve got some other goodies from him to post, but that can wait until tomorrow!
-Eric
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YOAS (yet another octagonal star) May 11th, 2006
Meus apologies for the continual stream of octagonal star shapes. I’m doing something with it, I promise.
Found a new, interesting folding method, and adapted it to fit the paper slightly better.
Also, I felt the big empty space in the middle really needed to be filled with something, so I decorated it a bit.
(My apologies also if my lettering is a bit off- I don’t speak Arabic, and heavily stylized Kufi is all I’m comfortable with trying to do. I wasn’t sure if including the alif was proper or not but it seemed better to keep it. Please let me know if this is incorrect and I will work differently in the future.)
I’ve discovered a number of new methods of folding some of these more complex polygonal shapes lately, which hopefully will speed up some of the work I’m doing on completing larger, more complex designs.
The larger works aren’t portable, sadly, so the spare time I have during my commute can’t be used to fold them- and lately it’s been the only free time I have had, which I hope explains the lack of more complex design work as of late. Hopefully I’ll get things straightened out and I’ll have more to share with you soon.
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