Star/flower tessellation, flower side, backlit Originally uploaded by Melisande*. Beautiful work from Mélisande. I really like this design! clean, visually engaging and appealing. Here’s the reverse:

Origami Scale Model A site that sells customized origami models for business promotional purposes. Kind of like a papercraft thing, but without cutting. interesting concept. they have a few models you can download to check out. (tags: origami papercraft model paperfolding)

I received an email from Florent, looking to identify this origami design and hopefully find diagrams for it. It looks like a modular piece, but with a rather unique folding structure; somewhat like a hexagonal rose. While I am obsessed with geometric origami and lighting, I can’t say that I know the creator of this piece… anyone out there have an idea? contact me. UPDATE: I queried the Origami-L mailing list, and got many useful replies from people who have identified it. the most concise is here, from Sky: Aperture – folded paper by Claire Norcross. Claire Norcross has created lampshade designs that give different light patterns depending on how they are folded. She also gives lessons in origami in design. She taught this lamp a while ago at The Hub in UK – www.thehubcentre.org -Sky Thanks also to Mark Bolitho and Peter Mielke for the tip-off and the link: http://www.habitat.net/uk/main_uk.htm

Projektor Great lamp idea for using with tessellations, don’t you think? (tags: origami tessellations lamp design lighting projector projektor) nan (not a nerd) Blog of Jose Luis Gonzalez (aka enveloop). Very interesting guy, with some great ideas. Does some fun things with others who are into tessellations in Spain. (tags: spain origami enveloop music mathematics blog)

dodecagon tess – day Originally uploaded by origami joel. Folded by Joel, based on a design by Chris Palmer. a really interesting work- getting those pleat widths right on the second set of pleats (splitting the 60 degree intersections into 30 degree intersections) would be a real chore, for sure. I have personally found from my attempts to fold octagonal (and higher) level polygons that you start to get what I would term as diminishing returns- they become much harder to fold, without necessarily adding too much more to the piece. of course, this 12 sided design is really spectacular, so I’m rethinking my opinion on that a bit. Anyhow, another wonderful work from Joel- great to see these! Some amazing tessellation skills.