Tessellation of Hydrangeas Originally uploaded by Tangomath. 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

Need a Photo for the Blog Originally uploaded by oschene. Philip Chapman-Bell (aka Oschene on Flickr) has been doing a lot of fascinating exploration of twists lately, including some spectacular 16 sided chrysanthemum shapes and this particularly delicious 10 pointed twist star. True to form, after sorting all this information out he went further and published a full sequenced crease pattern (SCP) for this design, and released it under the CC License. I am a big fan of his SCP work- it’s clear to see and understand, and is a lot more thorough than a basic CP while being easier to create than a full diagram set. And I have to give him a big hand for releasing his work under a CC license so others can freely use, share, remix, and reuse his designs. Thanks for sharing this with us, Philip! Here’s some more of his stellar work: