Archive for November, 2006
Origami Rose by Oschene
November 24th, 2006
Philip Chapman-Bell, also known on the origami circuit as Oschene, just posted a crease pattern for this absolutely wonderful origami Rose, folded from a circle of paper. It has pentagonal symmetry! Marvelous!
Visit his website and download the CP.
Furthermore, as with all of his works, it is released under a very permissive Creative Commons license, which permits people to share, copy, print, and modify his designs, with a few limitations (share your creations under the same license, and no commercial use.) This is a great way to publish origami materials, as it allows individual users worldwide to use and share to their heart’s content while protecting the work from commercial exploitation by ethically-challenged people. Win-win, as far as I can see. I encourage you to think about releasing some diagrams in the same way, fearless reader!
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Joel Cooper’s Basket Weave, Crease pattern November 22nd, 2006
This is a crease pattern for Joel Cooper’s “Basket Weave” design, which features so prominently in many of his tessellation designs. It may have other origins as well- Joel has said as much; however, I have only seen it in his work, and that’s the first place I saw this, so until I see otherwise I’m crediting him with the design.
That being said, here’s two different CP’s for it: one without a grid, and one with a grid. I highly recommend looking at the grid version to understand the spacing for this design, as it’s rather tightly packed together when folded.
To see some photos of what this looks like when folded, peruse some of Joel Cooper’s mask photos; or check out the examples I folded a while back, here.
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Wonderful Paper Sculptures by Clive Stevens November 22nd, 2006
Some absolutely stunning paper artwork made by Clive Stevens. I think this is perhaps the best paper cutting I have seen in this genre to date. Wow.
(Erik the Red, of course picking an example that follows my own personal tastes…)
Follow the link to check out his several galleries of beautiful work!
Thanks to the great people at the russian site Hand Made for the link.
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3.6.3.6 Waterbomb / Flagstone Tessellation, Crease Pattern November 20th, 2006
If you are so inclined, I uploaded two different crease patterns for this design:
- 3.6.3.6 Waterbomb/Flagstone Tessellation, crease pattern (with grid)
- 3.6.3.6 Waterbomb/Flagstone Tessellation, crease pattern (no grid, as pictured above)
I’m really at somewhat of a loss on what to name these tessellations. If folded fully they become flagstone tessellations, ala Joel Cooper; if left three-dimensional, they are "waterbomb" style tessellations (although waterbomb is the wrong term for us to use here, but we’ll dispense with that argument for the moment.)
Regardless, this is a 3.6.3.6 tessellation- the old standard, triangles and hexagons together.
When you fold "normal" tessellations, the twists are always the dual of the tessellation you are folding. (For example, the 3.6.3.6 tessellation has a dual made up of rhombic stars- and the rhombic star tessellation, when folded, has hexagon and triangle twists, which most people actually think of as a 3.6.3.6 tessellation even though it’s really the dual of that…)
However, with these "waterbomb" tessellations, there seems to be a little bit of change due to the geometry involved. I still think they use the same "my twists are my dual" rule, but it’s a little different in how it folds out in the end, and I haven’t quite figured it all out yet.
This pattern (which I am currently folding) is really quite complicated to collapse. Much trickier than I thought it would be. However, I think the results will be quite interesting and worth the time spent.
It’s not really a full CP- many of the little creases for the hourglass shapes aren’t there- but I think you can figure it out if you fold these sorts of things.
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Portland, Oregon sushi restaurant has origami tessellations? November 18th, 2006
I saw this story come up on my Technorati search feed on “origami tessellations”. How random is that? I’m guessing it’s tessellations of origami, and not the kind of tessellations that we do, but still it seemed interesting. I’ll have to try to remember to check this out if I’m ever in Portland!
Having enjoyed great success with its downtown location (406 SW 13th), Masu recently built a branch in Southeast. There, origami tessellations hang on the walls, and futons lay behind the chairs. At the gorgeous, wood-paneled sushi bar, the chefs move fluidly. Light glints off knives. Chopping sounds fill the air. The rich smell of the freshest fish available is everywhere.
Mmmm… Sushi!
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Arms of Shiva, flagstone version (crease pattern) November 13th, 2006
This is a crease pattern of one of my designs[1][2] (which for the sake of convenience I have dubbed ‘Arms of Shiva’.)
However, this takes that design and throws it through the flagstonization machine, waterbombing all the folds to make the pattern you see above. While it might look like it is very wasteful of space (it is) there’s still less wasted paper doing it via this method than our normal straight pleat-and-twist methodology. Go figure!
I would love to see this folded, in case there’s anyone out there feeling intrepid enough to give it a try…
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Thinking Sketches - 3.4.6.4 Waterbomb-Flagstone Tessellation November 10th, 2006
Here’s a rudimentary sketch of a 3.4.6.4 "Flagstone" tessellation. Formed by creating the initial "waterbomb" type collapses, and then twisted to form the familiar flagstone style tiling. I did not draw the lines for the WB collapses but I’m guessing you can figure this out if you have any idea what I’m talking about, right?
More info on all this soon. I’m writing something down but I keep finding myself hamstrung by lack of proper wording and also some gaps in understanding.
In the little box sketches in the upper right, you can find two examples of a rhombus tiling (the dual of the 3.6.3.6 tessellation) that have been done as a normal straight-pleat tessellation, and then as a flagstone style tessellation.
If we adhere to using just the grid and it’s main offset lines (in this case, 30 degree angles) the flagstone style pleating is more efficient in terms of total area that one can tessellate given a particular number of pleats. Of course, the hinges that connect the flagstone polygons together can be as far apart as you want, or as close together as you want, between 180 and 0 degrees. And, with that, the smaller the angle of the hinge fold between the flagstone polygons, the more efficient the use of paper is. There’s a correlation here between complexity of folding and pleat width, though, so I wouldn’t suggest making them too small or you’ll have a very hard time folding them. The same sort of pleat shrinking applies to the normal straight pleating style, but apples to apples I think the flagstone method is less wasteful of space and paper.
So after playing with all this for a while I’ve realized that almost every flat tessellation I have folded can be re-folded as a flagstone tessellation, which changes the nature of the design by quite a bit. This is some interesting grounds for exploration and adaptation, in my opinion.
Thought I’d share this with you, in case you find it interesting too.
-Eric
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Pecten Magellanicus, Redux November 8th, 2006
A while back I folded a three-dimensional shell shape from some pleats, which I called “Pecten Magellanicus” (Sea Scallop), mostly due to the fact that it really looked like one.
I really liked the initial piece I did, and I wanted to see it realized on a larger scale. There’s a lot of pleating involved, so I decided to start off by folding four of them together, and then see where I wanted to take it from that point.
Here’s the initial version:
Pecten magellanicus, work sketch
However, in creating the second version, I didn’t properly sort out the ratios for the pleats. On the initial sketch, the rectangles that are used to create the pleat fan have a ratio of 2:9, for width:length. This made the shell shape fold almost flat when made with 7 pleats. On the larger version, I made a miscalculation and it ended up closer to a ratio of 1:5, which means the pleat fan extends farther upwards and is not as close to the flat plane of the paper on the ends. Thus the difference in the sides on this piece compared to the initial work sketch. Oops.
Anyway, this piece really isn’t close to finished, there’s a lot more that needs to be done with it. I’m not really happy with the ends of the pleat fans, so something needs to change there. There’s also a lot of extra paper and pleats in the middle that should probably have something interesting come out of it- no reason to leave good pleat space empty. Also, the whole thing hasn’t been wetfolded at all yet, so nothing is locked into place or flattened yet- thusly the bulbous appearance. Once it’s finished it should properly lay flat.
Just thought I’d share this with you since it’s going back into the “unfinished” box until after the New Year. Too much work to do right now to play with this any more, and give it the time it deserves to come out right.
-Eric
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Origami Tessellations now supplies updates via email November 1st, 2006
So, in case you would prefer to receive an email with new content vs. checking this website from a feedreader (or actually visiting the site directly, for that matter) I have turned on a feature of FeedBurner which will deliver a daily email to you if and ONLY if there is new content on this site.
If you are so inclined to subscribe to this, you can click on the link in the upper right of the web page (the part that says “Subscribe to Origami Tessellations via Email”, hopefully that is self explanatory…)
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I’ve long thought about turning this on, but I’ve only gotten around to it now. sign up if you like!
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Living under the Sea, A Zombie Sealife Dream November 1st, 2006
I read a strange article about “whale fall” yesterday, and part of the discussion involved specialized species that capitalize on such events.
The one that really caught my eye was “bone eating zombie worms”.
So, needless to say, I had bizarre dreams last night about what a bone-eating zombie worm would look like, and this morning while working on some paperfolding I ended up with this purely by accident.
It looks a little friendly, so perhaps it’s a vegetarian zombie worm?
No doubt it has nothing in common with the carnivorous bone-eating variety, but it looked enough like an ocean worm of some sort for my tastes.
What sort of interesting intermediate shapes do you come across while folding? I always like to play with the pleated paper like this before I go on to fold other things with it. Maybe sometimes it’s OK for us to just stop at this point and admire it as-is?
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