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Vertebral Stretch - 3D Wigglies December 17th, 2007
I’ve been experimenting with this three dimensional folded structure for a little while now, and for reference I’ve created a simple crease pattern in case anyone wants to fold this.
You can grab one of two versions - one on a grid, and one without. They are much smaller versions meant for reference understanding; just expand the construct to make it larger.
http://www.origamitessellations.com/docs/3D_wigglies.pdf
The version superimposed on a grid: (sorry for the misalignment, this was done for reference purposes only, not for publication anywhere!)
http://www.origamitessellations.com/docs/3D_wigglies_grid.pdf
I hope you enjoy, and if you fold one of these please send me a photo! I’d love to see how it turns out.
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Andrew Hudson’s exploratory work November 21st, 2007
I’ve been following the continued explorations of Andrew Hudson, via his Flickr stream.
Lately, he’s been working with a series of three-dimensional tessellation structures, particularly stretched pleats and box pleating. These are some areas that I have explored recently as well - there’s much fertile ground here for new ideas. Seeing what he thinks of and all his conceptual work is very inspiring, and I’m looking forward to seeing more of his constructs as time goes on.
Here’s a small sampling of his work, with links to the original flickr images.
Check out this box pleated house structure - imagine pleating together a whole city? Andrew linked to this additional blog post, as well, with another fantastic box-pleated house… it serves as a good example of what can be further be done.
This reminds me, of course, of a recent work by one of my favorite Italian origami creators, Lorenzo Marchi. When I see this design, all I can think of is a proto-city, waiting for tall skinny skyscrapers to grow upwards, making an entire cityscape. If one was sufficiently ambitious, I suppose an entire landscape could be created, from the city core to the rural countryside. I’d love to see that!
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Some origami links and inspiration April 18th, 2007
Been very quiet here as I wrangle some personal and professional monsters. More frequent posting will resume soon. Look for a good writeup on up-and-coming paper artist Jen Stark shortly!
Reposting this short list- it was something I sent to the Origami Mailing List a week ago. Some nice things to admire, and/or be inspired by (or make yourself!)
-Eric
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Not all just origami, but also some paper art and folding architecture things too. The list has been rather quiet lately so here’s some things to look at.
http://revistagalileu.globo.com/EditoraGlobo/componentes/article/edg_article_print/1,3916,516776-2680-1,00.html
A nice article on the mathematics of origami, in Portuguese
http://www.gailbarlow.com/sculptures1.html
Wonderful paper sculptures (lots of sliceforms!) by Gail Barlow (thanks to J. Rutzky for the link)
http://www.foldschool.com
Free foldable cardboard furniture designs for kids
http://www.orangevoid.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=27&Itemid=36
Fantastic tessellated membrane, mechanically controlled for architectural purposes (I dream about this sort of stuff, and here it is in real life!)
http://community.livejournal.com/ru_pop_up/32317.html
Some very nice tessellations on a russian paper architecture site- great curved pieces
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/11/how_to_use_furo.html
great PDF from Japan on Furoshiki, cloth gift wrapping - with lots of styles illustrated
http://www.polyscene.com/
the artwork of Polly Verity, an amazingly gifted paper artist in the UK
http://web.mit.edu/optics/www/origami.htm
Nanostructured origami fabrication and assembly - some great promise here
http://www.origami.no/gallery_menu.htm
gallery of origamic / paper architecture pieces, a wide variety
http://www.flickr.com/photos/83855901@N00/
some new works by Joan Michaels Paque - enormous wall-sized sculptures
http://www.flickr.com/photos/67861823@N00/
Many, many photos of waterbomb-based tessellations, by Ben Parker - tantalizingly part of a lengthy tutorial / write-up
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New Version of Tess, Alex Bateman’s origami tessellation software January 23rd, 2007
Alex Bateman has released a new version of his landmark software, Tess.
Tess allows you to create all sorts of tilings, and modifications of those tilings- so you can explore possibilities without having to fold it all out in paper, first! Also, this new version provides PDF export capability, which is a major plus for windows users.
Tess is a Perl application, and will run on any Perl-capable system with a bit of tweaking. (This means you, Linux/FreeBSD/MacOSX users.) Or, if you’re running windows, you can download a standalone version, which will run on it’s own without requiring any Perl resources. Both of these are available to download from Alex’s website.
Download the latest version of Tess!
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Star Twist and Octagonal Star diagrams by Francesco Decio January 15th, 2007
Francesco Decio taught this model of mine at the Italian CDO convention in Verbania, in December. I was really impressed to see that he had made some great instructions, much much better than the confusing CP that I made a while back.
He also sent me some great instructions for my simple octagonal twist, which again are very clear and understandable!
I’m really thankful that he created these wonderful instructions, and furthermore that he has shared them with me and allowed me to share them with you.
Download them here:
Star Twist Progression, Two Layers (PDF)
Star Twist Progression, Three Layers (PDF)
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Luny Lunoid January 5th, 2007
We’ve been folding a lot of Lunoids around the house lately, really enjoying this great model by Philip Chapman-Bell. Most definitely download the CP and give it a try, it makes an oddly appealing shape that is most hard to identify.
We haven’t yet figured out what the shape looks like the most, but seed pods, loaves of bread, peasant shoes, fat little boats, and other such things have all taken a run at first place…
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Lunoid, a new origami design by Oschene December 20th, 2006
Philip (Oschene on Flickr) has created this wonderful 3D origami design, which he is calling a “Lunoid”. It’s really a fantastic-looking shape, which I absolutely must make out of plastic to use as a container for all sorts of impractical but fabulous goodies.
Three cheers to Philip for yet another killer design.
He hasn’t blogged about it yet, or posted a crease pattern, but I would keep an eye on origami.oschene.com to see if it shows up!
I’m personally looking forward to running the CP through our CraftROBO and cutting it out of polypropylene plastic, to make wonderful translucent containers…
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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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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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Iso-area offset triangle twist PDF September 12th, 2006
Playing around with different angles, came up with this interesting modification on an old favorite. It’s iso-area, has several layers to it (in a Joel Cooper-esque way, to me) and is a bit different than anything I’ve folded before. There’s something unique in the way that you can manipulate pleats to get extra layers of paper moving around in there. This is a new area of exploration for me.
Would look good, no doubt, from elephant hide. I’ll give it a try once my latest order shows up.
For the curious, I put up a fancy crease pattern document in PDF format available for download from my website.
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