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May 9th, 2008
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fascinating article on a photo retouching master.
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Things to remember
February 8th, 2007
Try to keep in mind what is really
important and not just what is most pressing.
important and not just what is most pressing.
Some critical things to remember, these days. Thanks for the good words, my friend.
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Ralf Konrad joins Flickr! July 12th, 2006
I was extremely excited to see that Ralf Konrad had joined Flickr today!
He’s just got a few photos online right now, but I’m looking forward to seeing more- hopefully we can convince him to join in on all the conversations in the Origami Tessellations photo group.
Every time we get a new member, the global “brain trust” of the group grows exponentially- all the ideas bouncing off each other seem to multiply more so every time a new river of thought joins the main stream!
Welcome, Ralf! I’m very excited to see you in our group- I’ve admired your work for quite some time now, and I’m looking forward to a great exchange of ideas and thoughts in the months to come!
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Origami Convention, 1 June 29th, 2006
A wonderful experience. still trying to process everything, will do some nicer writeups (and image uploading/fixing on Flickr) once I’m back from NYC at the end of the week.
Here’s Joel Cooper, Joseph Wu, and Philip Chapman-Bell (aka Oschene).
I just realized that between the 4 of us, they all have better beard/mustache combos than I do.
Next year I’m going to have to double my efforts if I want to compete!
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On my way to NYC June 23rd, 2006
Well, I packed up most of my tessellations into a giant binder, and I’m waiting right now to board the flight to NYC. I’m looking forward to sharing some of my work “with the public”, so to speak, even though on review most of it isn’t material I’m all that excited for people to see. Regardless, it should be fun.
See (some) of you in a few hours!
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More than Just Origami (on MetaFilter) May 31st, 2006
More than Just Origami | MetaFilter
Got a great mention on Metafilter.com, one of my favorite websites. Also a host of other wonderful paper artists, some of whom I had never heard of before- but also of course the marvelous Richard Sweeney.
Unfortunately I don’t have an account, or I’d hop on and do some heavy name dropping- anyone with a MeFi account out there willing to give some plugs for the Flickr Origami Tessellations Group and for Joel Cooper?
-Eric
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Hexakaidecagon 1/4 view. a study in crease assignment. May 1st, 2006
Folding a hexakaidecagon (16 sided shape). It creates a necessarily large central shape. I don’t have the folding chops to make this central space into something more interesting, in a Chris Palmer sort of way, but we’ll find something to do with it eventually.
the changing pleats radiating outwards are kind of like mysterious tangents to an unseen circle, which necessarily makes them a little dififcult to fold. However for the time being I found a “solution” which is imperfect but really makes the folding a lot easier, overall. I’ll probably fold a larger one using this shortcut method and then apply the proper collapse technique I figured out this weekend to do it correctly, if there is such a thing.
16 sides yields several levels of tangled triangular shapes, rather than a simple array of “kites”, so there’s some fiddling that needs to be done for this to all fold properly. What you, the viewer, might not see is that some of the tiniest folds around the hexakaidecagon are fudged; figuring out how to fold it was a little difficult. hopefully the next time around will be a bit cleaner.
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Pentagonal Compass Rose Box November 21st, 2005
Philip (a newly found origami folder to me) posted this spectacular Phi based fold, which is something like a flower/rose/box thing. Phi rocks my world, but I’m utterly unable to fold complex things out of it- something I’m still working on (pentagonal geometry isn’t the easiest thing to work with at times).
He also has crease patterns here so you can fold it! I’d suggest popping over and taking a look. His origami blog is also fascinating as well, and is a new RSS feed for me to take in on a daily basis going forward!
The Fitful Flog: Pentagonal Compass Rose Box and φ-Quiddity
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star twist version 2.1, cute, backlit November 13th, 2005
This is based on my original star twist, but is taken quite a bit further.
Have you ever started folding something, which was interesting and complex, only to later realize it was something you had folded before? And you just spent quite a bit of time finding another way to get there?
I realized after folding the star twist version 2 (found here) that it was really the same as my original star twist, but just folded differently to allow for the relatively complex folding sequence. When I started folding my first version back in the spring, I had not explored logarithmic folding or really much of anything yet. Now that I have a few months of research and exploration under my belt, I am able to better recognize what I’m doing. This is a positive thing, in my opinion.
Anyhow, this design uses a pattern based on a lot of triangles, which expand in a logarithmic progression. very pleasing to fold, if not a little bit complicated. Now that I have a few folded, it’s time to disassemble one and build a crease pattern for it. Future attempts should be easier once I know what parts are not required for actual folding, as well as producing a cleaner overall design.
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grabbed from the Flickr photo entry.
I uploaded quite a few pictures of this model, but I find it to be rather entertaining, and certainly quite pretty. I don’t think these photos did the design justic- it looks best backlit by the sun, but sadly there was no sun to be had today!
tweaked some of the folding choices and came out with a better design. it’s actually all a bunch of diamonds, getting progressively larger following a Fibonacci sequence. interesting numbers, for sure. even when I’m not trying to fold something using them, I keep finding them popping up.
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Two-sided sequential hex star (star twist, version 2) November 10th, 2005
This design is a (logarithmically?) growing shape, which gets increasingly larger each time you change sides of the paper. My intention is to find a method of folding this all on one side, but for the time being this is where we are at.
it uses the normal 60 degree precreased grid for one side of the star, and the other side is based on a 60 degree grid that is offset by 30 degrees. This means that the stars are offset to each other, and don’t match up in any way, other than some odd geometry which I don’t quite understand yet.
Like other models (like the Fujimoto Lotus or Hydrangea) this item can be folded infinitely larger, as it keeps expanding to larger and larger sizes. I think, in fact, that it will grow using a logarithmic scale (I guess it must to do this) but I don’t know the details on what number it will be. I have ideas, but I’d rather keep folding and see how it turns out first; although I think it follows the Fibonacci sequence (my personal favorite.)
however, it’s rather neat how the sides go back and forth; this would be a great model folded with some tissue foil- when it’s not pressed flat it looks like a flower blossom.
I’ve been told this looks like my star twist, which is very true. I think this is that design but without all the bungling of extra paper. maybe I should call it star twist v2?
this is a work in progress, but I thought I’d share this interesting item with you. I hope to release an updated version soon. As always, your comments are very welcome.
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(description lifted word-for-word from my flickr post.)
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