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Tessellation Basics booklet now available - free PDF! August 15th, 2007
Well, I had all the best intentions to add more content to this booklet - but it’s hard for me not to just put in all the material from my book! So I’m posting it now in the same format that I used at the Origami USA convention this summer.
This document is just a small taste of the material from the book, put together from some of the draft work and preliminary writings. The final product is quite lengthier and more detailed, as well as more polished. (Editors are very good at taking text like mine and making it readable!)
This 8 page booklet is meant to be printed on 11×17 (or A3, in a pinch) double-sided- so it can be folded into a proper booklet shape.
I had a lot of fun putting this together- thanks again to Jamie and Jeff for helping me to create and format this document!
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The Making of Mens et Manus, by Brian Chan July 30th, 2007
Prolific origami genius Brian Chan created this how-to video for one of his creations, Mens et Manus. It’s so very, very funny.
You can view (and download) the movie in larger formats here:
http://chosetec.techtv.mit.edu/file/93/
(Thanks to Brian Webb for the link!)
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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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First International Origami Tessellation Exposition July 13th, 2006
I’m pleased to announce an international exhibition on origami tessellations, July 29th through August 6th at the Jardim Botânico in Brasília, Brazil.
This is one of the first origami events focusing entirely on origami tessellations, and should prove to be an exciting time for all of those who enjoy this particular folding niche.
Featured artists include:
Jane Araújo (Brazil)
www.flickr.com/photos/mawelucky/
Christiane Bettens (Switzerland)
www.flickr.com/photos/melisande-origami/
Joel Cooper (USA)
www.flickr.com/photos/origamijoel
Eric Gjerde (USA)
www.flickr.com/photos/origomi/
As well as several other tessellation artists submitting work, including Andy Wilson (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53592906@N00/) and Lorenzo Marchi (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lorenzomarchi/).
The art exhibition at the Jardim Botânico is open from 9 AM to 5 PM; the facility is closed on Mondays. Concurrent to that, there will be a week of private meetings and folding get-togethers, so if you’re in the area please get in touch with me and I can give you more information on the schedule.
Our intention is to release a booklet at the end of the exhibition; additional information on that will be posted on the O-list when it is available.
Sources for further information include the origami tessellations group on Flickr, at www.flickr.com/groups/origamitessellations; and my website, at www.origamitessellations.com.
-Eric Gjerde
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Estaremos realizando entre os dias 29/07 e 06/08 a primeira exposição internacional de tessellations no Jardim Botânico de Brasília.
Estarão presentes os seguintes artistas:
Christiane Bettens
www.flickr.com/photos/melisande-origami/
Eric Gjerde
www.flickr.com/photos/origomi/
Jane Araújo
www.flickr.com/photos/mawelucky/
Joel Cooper
www.flickr.com/photos/origamijoel
além de trabalhos de outros origamistas ao redor do mundo.
A exposição estará aberta ao público das 9:00 às 17:00 horas, diariamente.
-Jane Araújo
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Origami Tessellation artwork of Christine Edison July 6th, 2006
I had the great pleasure of meeting Christine Edison at the OUSA convention in NYC a few weeks ago, and she has been quite busy since then folding wonderful tessellations- take a look at her new Flickr photostream, and check out all the tessellation goodness!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/christine42/
Welcome, Christine!
I’m very happy to see more tessellation folders on Flickr; we have a wonderful community there, and it’s full of positive reinforcement, idea sharing, and all sorts of great people. If you like tessellations, why don’t you consider joining? It’s free, and it’s a lot of fun!
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Money Folding June 21st, 2006
Lately, prompted subliminally by a conversation on the O-list, I have been folding money. I never really cared for money folding before, and I can’t say that this represents a change in my folding focus, but there’s something really fascinating in folding unique objects out of such a common, ubiquitous item.
Folded last night, here’s a design based on a puff star tessellation:
And a few days ago, I folded this design- two octagonal negative space stars, with radial kite shapes:
It conveniently holds two half-dollar coins quite precisely in the “negative space” in the center.
I’ll probably bring both of these to the convention, although I haven’t figured out a display method yet- I’m a little worried that someone will just swipe the dollar bills off the table. Anyone with money-folding + convention experience willing to give me a suggestion on display methodology for such things?
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One Year Anniversary - Flickr Origami Tessellation Group! June 12th, 2006
It’s been one year since the Origami Tessellations photo pool was created, and we’re nearing 1000 photos with close to 100 members- with over 20 members who have actively contributed material to the group!
This makes me really happy; when I started using Flickr a while back there really wasn’t origami tessellation content on here, and now there’s a healthy, growing community of friendly, fun people. This is all possible because of the positive, sharing spirit you have all shown to each other, and to new members joining in.
I’d like to thank you all for being a part of something wonderful, and I hope we continue to share, contribute, and grow for years to come!
Please feel free to comment on the discussion page on Flickr (or here, if you want!)
-Eric
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Pollinating Butterflies (Fujimoto Remix) March 30th, 2006
Noisia (a wonderfully creative newcomer to origami tessellations) folded this great remix of Fujimoto’s Hydrangea and Crowding Butterflies, giving it the title of “Pollinating Butterflies”.
I think this is a wonderful design- taking the Hydrangea model (how many times have we seen this pattern over and over?) and making it fresh by adding in something new, breathing new life into the piece.
It’s really creative work- stepping from learning tessellations to making such impressive stuff in a few weeks is amazing! There’s a lot of other interesting things there, too, and hopefully more to come.
Keep up the good work!
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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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ORIPA update February 16th, 2006
Roberto Soto posted this email to the Origami-L mailing list:
I just found this Java based program named ORIPA. It’s a program to create
crease patterns (or to draw existing crese patterns), but the funny thing is
that it can actually show youde finished model.I was just wandering if any of you have heard or read about it before??
I had to reply to this, of course- ORIPA is a wonderful software tool, and deserves more attention from the western origami world. I was pleased to find that Jun Mitani had localized it to English, and made an English language page with instructions for how to get it working. That’s a lot of extra work for him, especially with a new baby at home, and I’m very grateful he took the time to do that.
Here’s my reply to the O-list.
I wrote a bit about this program on my site a few months ago:
http://www.origamitessellations.com/2005/12/12/figuring-out-things-with-oripa/
Jun Mitani’s program is quite an excellent one, which works out amazingly well for folding a lot of basic (and not so basic) models. There’s been a lot of traffic in the Japanese origami blog community about this particular app, with a lot of interesting pieces being produced with it.
here’s a few of them, via Technorati’s blog search:
http://www.technorati.com/search/ORIPA
also, Hideo Komatsu has been playing around with ORIPA quite a bit- his blog has a number of posts on his usage of it, especially as he tries to use it to diagram his work (it doesn’t often fold the patterns properly, and I believe he submits the bugs he finds to the author).
you can read his blog here:
his blog posts on ORIPA:
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/origami/searchdiary?word=oripa&.submit=%B8%A1%BA%F7&type=detail (http://tinyurl.com/9gcwq, or search for yourself in the left hand search window)
you can run this through babelfish’s translation tool (not so good, though) which will lose the photos- make sure to view it in japanese first, as there’s lots of pictures.
http://tinyurl.com/arkbr (babelfish link, link text is much too long.)
However, there was a posting by Komatsu a while ago which I interpreted as saying that development on ORIPA was coming to an end. That may be completely incorrect, though, so don’t take my word on it.
Jun Mitani has localized the application for English as of version 0.16, which is a wonderful thing- you can view his english language page with instructions here:
http://mitani.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/pukiwiki-oripa/index.php?ORIPA%3B%20Origami%20Pattern%20Editor
(or http://tinyurl.com/8ezde here if that link is too long, and wraps on your screen).
since the program is now available in english, it should significantly lower the barrier for more people to play with it. The application is very interesting- you can lay out a crease pattern, and it will tell you whether or not it will fold; furthermore, it will fold it and show you the final folded model. You can flip the model and see both sides, have it spread out the layers a bit to better see the folds, turn it to wireframe mode so you can see through the layers, etc.
There is also an upload board- kind of a wiki BBS page for discussing issues, uploading files, and the like. that page is here:
http://mitani.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/oripa/upboard/upboard.cgi
All you need to make it run on windows is a reasonably recent Java install, and his program file (currently oripa016.jar). By all means download it and give it a try!
-Eric Gjerde
http://www.origamitessellations.com
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