open back octagonal twist, backlit Originally uploaded by Origomi. my second foray into octagons. a little better, although the folding method for all this takes a little getting used to. since an octagon is not a “pure” tessellat-able polygon (can’t use it to fill the plane just by itself) all the creases don’t necessarily line up to make things you might want to make. that being said, it’s really a lot like two sets of squares, rotated by 45 degrees with respect to each other. this gets a little confusing as the crease pattern can look a LOT like normal squares w/ 45 degree diagonals, but it’s not- most of the creases never match up in any “proper” spots that you think they might. They do, however, do a lot of interesting things, which I’m going to have to take some time to explore. One very interesting thing that I noticed is that the octagon repeats itself- growing outward in a linear fashion, each set of creases makes another larger octagon. This is interesting, of …

Octagonal Twist thingie Originally uploaded by Origomi. Anyone interested in having this model diagrammed? it’s a simple, single octagonal twist, but it seems to be popular for reasons I don’t understand.If you’re interested in having me diagram it, drop me a line and let me know:

Octagonal Twist Originally uploaded by Origomi. I was playing around with octagonal twists, and came up with this little shape. it looked neat. I tagged this as tessellations, which isn’t exactly true; but it will become one for sure. folding octagonal stuff is sort of a pain, but I’ll have to figure it out… something new to know!

Tiled Hex Tessellation, folded by Danilo Originally uploaded by Origomi. Danilo sent me a bunch of photos of his attempt at the Tiled Hex Tessellation. They came out very, very well! He used some insanely thin tissue paper (or some sort of crepe-like thin stuff) to fold it. the texture is fabulous. very Snazzy!

I really dig it when people send me photos of some of my models they have folded- it’s a great feeling. and there’s nothing wrong with things that make you feel happy! Here’s a link to Christiane’s photo gallery- take a minute to poke around some of the other great photo pages there too. http://origami-art.org Thanks, Christiane!