Archive for the ‘origami tessellations’ Category

Owesen’s Lightbox Tessellation

September 27th, 2006

Astounding. Fredrik Owesen has a fantastic tessellation mixing illustration and non-regular polygons. This is the sort of irregular pleating that I have dreamed of making, and here it is!

Again, Fredrik produces some first-rate work, showing us all something new and wonderful. Make sure to look at it large size and check it out!

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Arabesque Flourish

September 25th, 2006

Another organic shape exploration, becoming increasingly architectural with each new thing I fold. Not exactly sure where I’m heading with all of this but it’s an interesting process nonetheless.

For what it’s worth, this is my 2000th photo uploaded to flickr. It’s been an interesting year or so, hasn’t it?

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Organic Folding by Paul Jackson

September 24th, 2006

So I’ve been doing a lot of organic pleat folding lately, and several people have mentioned to me that what I’m doing resembles work done by Paul Jackson.

This led me to go back and look through some of his work- you can see his gallery here. It’s really just amazing stuff.

I’m trying to head down a slightly different path, but his work is very inspiring- I’d love to see more of it!

This image is from sipmab’s photostream on Flickr, from the Hangar 7 origami expo. It’s one of Paul Jackson’s organic pieces. Much thanks for posting and sharing this on Flickr!

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Pleat Explosion, experiment one

September 21st, 2006

Exploring different possibilities in folding; approaching tessellations from a more organic angle.

My first attempt at this thought, not quite what I was envisioning but acceptable for the initial try.

Made from light green elephant hide, wetfolded.

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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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3.4.6.4 Tessellation, done with an interesting methodology

September 7th, 2006

This tessellation is quite fascinating, for several reasons, which I hope I can elucidate here.

First, here’s the underlying tessellation- a 3.4.6.4 semiregular tessellation. (Image used from Totally Tessellated, which is a site well worth visiting if you like tessellations.)

Normally (for me, anyhow) folding a 3.4.6.4 tessellation requires using quite a bit of paper to flesh out all the pleats, intersections, and other parts; so necessarily, one must use a piece of precreased paper with quite a few division in it to really do the pattern justice.

The real beauty of the way this design has been folded lies in the use of elements on both sides of the paper; so the pleats coming away from the open-backed offset hexagonal twists on the back turn into the pleats leading into the triangular twists on the front, with a minimum of wasted space.

Joel Cooper uses this technique very often, in his “flagstone” style tessellation patterns. While this design does not pack the twisted polygons as close together as Joel prefers, it still uses the same types of concepts- putting the twist elements on both sides of the paper, and using the interconnecting pleats as a sort of “middle layer” to do more work with less paper waste. This is a somewhat difficult concept to execute in paper form, at times, so I am very pleased to see more people picking up on the idea and running with it like this.

I’m also quite enamored with this pattern because of the use of spacing. It’s not a big secret that I’m particularly fond of open patterns that let a lot of light through them- it’s not just because I’m lazy and like to avoid close, dense packing of patterns (although that’s quite true!) but I really enjoy a good balance between light and dark, shadows and brightness. By using these multiple layers (or at least conceptually, multiple layers) the pattern has a much richer depth to share with us when it is backlit. Besides the 3.4.6.4 tiling, the twists, and the overall circular feel to it, we also get wonderful bowtie patterns linking all the sections together, as well as quite a few different areas of paper thickness- which, especially if folded from a light paper like white unryu, would really make a striking difference in shading.

This is a great design, and I’m really rather smitten with it! Good work!
I highly encourage you to check out additional work by Miguel, on Flickr or on his wonderful blog, Doblando Papeles.

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Tessellation of Hydrangeas

September 7th, 2006

Some really nice work recently from Jorge Lucero, of Brasilia, Brazil. Jorge was one of the exhibitors at the Tessellation exposition there last month, and his work was huge- and very impressive!

Since then he’s made some new work, including this multi-hydrangea tessellation. Very good stuff, and very precise- it was a joy to look at his folding there, as it’s absolutely accurate. (Although that is perhaps what one would expect from a mathematician…)

Thanks for sharing this, Jorge!

website: http://www.mat.unb.br/~lucero/orig_e.html (english)

http://www.mat.unb.br/~lucero/orig.html (Portuguese)

his flickr page

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Double Pleat Hexagon Tessellation Instructions, available for download

August 30th, 2006

I just uploaded a new PDF of instructions for folding a Double Pleat Hexagon tessellation; you can download it here.

It is released under the CC Non-Commercial Attribution license, which means you can do anything you want with it, other than sell it for $$$, or go around saying it’s your own. (which hopefully you’d be nice enough to not do anyway!)

Let me know what you think. Thanks!

-Eric Gjerde

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Lightbox Testing: Joel Cooper, RAW vs. JPG

August 22nd, 2006

Hey there- I’m doing some testing with a lightbox setup, and I could use some feedback. I’ve got a few photos in my photostream- more to come tomorrow- and I would like to know how they look at full resolution to you. good? bad? fuzzy? clear? I’m leaning towards shooting RAW files and doing a lot of post-processing, but it’s a lot of work to do. Maybe I’ll need to switch to film or actually go out on a limb and find someone with a 12+ Mpixel digital camera to do this thing right.

Anyway, take a look- http://www.flickr.com/photos/origomi or look on my Photos Page and click on “Recent Photos” to see them.

Thanks for your feedback.

-Eric

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Joel Cooper - Origami Tessellation Masks - Three Faces

August 17th, 2006

My friend Joel Cooper created this wonderful mask, with three interconnected faces. He brought the prototype for this piece with him to NYC and to our Brazil tessellation expo, but to see the finished work (and so quickly!) is really a pleasure indeed.

It seems like something from mythology- take your pick: Greek, Roman, Norse, Chinese, Egyptian… almost all mythological stories involve a multi-faced figure in one way or another.

And, admittedly, the work is a little creepy- the realism he achieves only serves to further this, I think. Many of Joel’s masks approach the Uncanny Valley in terms of their similarity to actual human faces. I don’t mean to lend credibility to this pseudoscientific theory, but for some of his work I find them strangely appealing and at the same time rather scary- perhaps because they do indeed seem like human faces frozen in time (and paper).

For this reason, I think, my favorite mask is still the one that hangs on my living room wall:

mostly because as a human entity frozen in time, it’s smiling at me, and seems comfortable in it’s eternal paper state.

Joel’s work keeps progressing, and he is certainly one of the most gifted artists that I know (or know of, for that matter.) When I see new works from him like this set of faces, it makes me wonder what other fantastic creations the future holds for him.

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