Archive for the ‘modular origami’ Category
Foil FIT June 1st, 2007
My wife Bekah folded this wonderful model of Tom Hull’s the other afternoon, to display at the OUSA convention in NYC in a few weeks.
I have always considered this to be one of the really difficult designs out there, and yet she did it in just a few hours. I’m glad she doesn’t fold tessellations or I’d be out of a job! 
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New Modular Tessellations May 3rd, 2006
I came across these beautiful photos this morning, by a new (to me!) origami folder on Flickr, luloto1eso.
They are made up of modular units, but they are really beautiful tessellations- some of which would be impossible to fold from a single sheet of paper. I encourage you to check them out, as well as the many impressive modular origami items on their photostream.
These are all really worth looking at in their full size- it won’t disappoint you, I promise!
-Eric
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My Flickr 1 Year Anniversary! March 7th, 2006
patterned “spread” hex tile fold on Flickr, by Origomi
It was about one year ago today that I started putting photos on Flickr! Thanks so much to all of you who have made it the wonderful experience that it has been. I have met so many interesting and delightful people from all over the world in this last year. I feel very blessed.
Thank you!
-Eric Gjerde
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Happy New Year! January 29th, 2006
From my flickr friend Tina, who is most likely the coolest teacher in San Francisco.
“Fook” (rhymes with “book”….in Cantonese) is the Chinese character for good fortune/good luck.
Part of the kindergarten teacher’s Chinese New Year bulletin board display at my school.
Made from lucky red envelopes.
(my apologies to all those literate readers for mixing Mandarin and Cantonese on the same page.)
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Identify me? January 17th, 2006
I received an email from Florent, looking to identify this origami design and hopefully find diagrams for it.
It looks like a modular piece, but with a rather unique folding structure; somewhat like a hexagonal rose.
While I am obsessed with geometric origami and lighting, I can’t say that I know the creator of this piece… anyone out there have an idea? contact me.
UPDATE: I queried the Origami-L mailing list, and got many useful replies from people who have identified it. the most concise is here, from Sky:
Aperture - folded paper by Claire Norcross.
Claire Norcross has created lampshade designs that give different light
patterns depending on how they are folded.
She also gives lessons in origami in design.She taught this lamp a while ago at The Hub in UK - www.thehubcentre.org
-Sky
Thanks also to Mark Bolitho and Peter Mielke for the tip-off and the link:
http://www.habitat.net/uk/main_uk.htm
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Upcoming book from Tom Hull January 4th, 2006
Digging around always seems to pay off- I found the LiveJournal page of Thomas Hull, origami mathematician extraordinaire.
He mentions that he has a new book coming out in the spring of 2006, called Project Origami : Activities for Exploring Mathematics.
Here’s a draft version of the cover (thanks, Tom!)
Looking forward to this one!
The summary, via the A K Peters website:
When it comes to mathematics, paper isn’t just for pen and pencil any more! Origami, the art and science of paper folding, can be used to explain concepts and solve problems in mathematics-and not just in the field of geometry. The origami activities collected here also relate to topics in calculus, abstract algebra, discrete mathematics, topology, and more.
Using origami, learn about:
- Solving Cubic Equations
- Bucky Balls and PHiZZ units
- Matrix models for folds
- Gaussian Curvature and much more!
These activities, which can enhance the classroom experience, also make great independent student projects and are perfect for math clubs or math circles.
and, if you’re a book geek…
ISBN: 1-56881-258-2
242 pages, no less!
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Tokyoahead - Masters of Origami Exhibition, Hangar 7, Salzburg December 19th, 2005
Tokyoahead - Masters of Origami Exhibition, Hangar 7, Salzburg
I found a nice photo gallery of the exhibits from the Masters of Origami exhibition in Austra this year. Since the website for the event was practically unusable due to a horrendous flash design, I found this to be much more approachable.
I had a chance to see the book produced for this event last Sunday at our monthly Origami Minnesota meeting. (thanks Carol!) It’s quite well put together, although as always I would have preferred more images. Not sure it is worth the cost, but I’m more of a blueprint kind of guy, and less a coffee-table-book person.
Here’s a few images from the website:
edit: hotlinked photos don’t work. Sorry, Tokyoahead.com webmaster! my apologies.
Please proceed to the website directly to check out the photos. thanks!
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L. Camargo December 1st, 2005
I don’t know much more about L. Camargo other than it’s a new blog with a pile of photos of very nice modular origami. I haven’t seen any updates so far, so I guess it’s just a mystery source of interesting photos!
If you are the (spanish speaking?) person who created this site, please let me know! I’m very interested in knowing more about you and your work.
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easy origami links, and blog template changeups… June 29th, 2005
I really, really don’t like blogs. web pages I like, but the whole “blog” concept with a gazillion useless tacky bits on the page annoys me.
So since my previous template was geting stranger and stranger in how it didn’t work, I’m cheating and just pasting in someone else’s nicely pre-made template. my bad. I don’t think the 2 people who even look at this site care that much
Seriously though, a lot of you keep coming here because you’re doing google searches for “origomi” instead of “origami”. I’d suggest the following links:
www.origami.com
www.paperfolding.com
money origami
Bob Nienhuis’s money origami page
www.origami-usa.org
folds.net easy origami tutorials
www.oriland.com
Origami Underground (origami models for adults only)
British Origami Society
Marc Kirschenbaum’s Origami Page
Monkey.org tells you how to make an origami crane
Meenakshi’s huge page of modular origami diagrams
Sarah’s (of megatokyo fame) origami site
wannalearn.com’s links (many of the same sites, and several more for instructions
Hope that helps you get started down the road to some easy origami folding!
If you are looking for origami tessellations and more complex origami, take a look at the links in the righthand “links” column!
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John McKeever’s origami tessellations June 7th, 2005
Ravi Apte pointed me out to the origami tessellations of John McKeever. Some of his folds are rather fantastic, and I applaud his use of the Kawasaki Rose as a tessellation process. I just can’t fold those to save my life; although I’m not really into flowers much anyway so I think it’s OK.
I think my favorite photo of his is this one:
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