I’ve added a new gallery, featuring the second version of my star twist- this one is a big improvement in my opinion. Please take a look and see what you think!

Origami landscape : stars and clouds over the mountains, backlit Originally uploaded by Melisande*. Mélisande brings this amazing artwork to us on flickr, and shatters my mental picture of what is possible and expected from “origami tessellation” pieces. Is it a tessellation? is it geometric art? is it both? is it neither? I don’t know how to categorize this piece, as I have never seen anything similar to it before. As I mentioned in an initial brief comment on her photo page on Flickr, this is a very moving piece that is reminiscent of many schools of artistic thought and design, as well as different time periods of human history. It reminds me of both Modern design, and ancient paintings on the walls of forgotten civilizations. This is fascinating to me. I can only hope to see more works like this from Mélisande, and draw inspiration from them. Beautiful art refreshes and uplifts the soul.

This is a piece that I have been working on for a while now- it’s the latest version of my star twist tessellation. (it will fill the plane, eventually!) It uses a logarithmic growth pattern to create a sequence of triangles that follow the fibonacci sequence in their growth, or at least as much as I can predict without folding further and further towards infinity. You can see some additional photos as well as some initial crease patterns for this design on my local photo gallery. here’s the cut and pasted flickr description text: ——– 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 …

star twist version 2.1, cute, backlit Originally uploaded by Ori-gomi. 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 …

Two-sided sequential hex star (star twist, version 2) Originally uploaded by Ori-gomi. 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 …