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Good Morning Amsterdam!

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Good Morning Amsterdam!

Originally uploaded by EricGjerde.

We arrived home safely last night, after an amazing 12 days in Europe. I’m still feeling pretty wonky from jet-lag, but I thought I’d upload some pictures from the trip. Some good, some boring, a lot of embarrassing shots, but life’s always a mix, right?

Huge pile of photos being uploaded to here. Or, if you have any sense, you will wait for me to pick out the few good ones, and put them somewhere else.

For origami people, I will be uploading a separate set with all the photos from the 2006 CDO convention in Verbania, which are most likely the only photos you will be interested in! You can find the set of origami convention photos here (although they will take a while to finish uploading.)

We had a wonderful time in Italy and the Netherlands. Other than my laptop being destroyed, it was all really great! A huge thanks to Patrizia Parigi for all the assistance she gave us in Firenze and in Verbania- there’s no way we can repay her for all her kindness, but we’ll try to think of something!

-Eric

Origami Rose by Oschene

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O³ Rose, 0.4

Philip Chapman-Bell, also known on the origami circuit as Oschene, just posted a crease pattern for this absolutely wonderful origami Rose, folded from a circle of paper. It has pentagonal symmetry! Marvelous!

Visit his website and download the CP.

Furthermore, as with all of his works, it is released under a very permissive Creative Commons license, which permits people to share, copy, print, and modify his designs, with a few limitations (share your creations under the same license, and no commercial use.) This is a great way to publish origami materials, as it allows individual users worldwide to use and share to their heart’s content while protecting the work from commercial exploitation by ethically-challenged people. Win-win, as far as I can see. I encourage you to think about releasing some diagrams in the same way, fearless reader!

O³ Rose, 0.4, reverse

Joel Cooper's Basket Weave, CP

Joel Cooper’s Basket Weave, Crease pattern

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Joel Cooper's Basket Weave, CP

Joel Cooper's Basket Weave, CP

This is a crease pattern for Joel Cooper’s “Basket Weave” design, which features so prominently in many of his tessellation designs. It may have other origins as well- Joel has said as much; however, I have only seen it in his work, and that’s the first place I saw this, so until I see otherwise I’m crediting him with the design.

That being said, here’s two different CP’s for it: one without a grid, and one with a grid. I highly recommend looking at the grid version to understand the spacing for this design, as it’s rather tightly packed together when folded.

 

To see some photos of what this looks like when folded, peruse some of Joel Cooper’s mask photos; or check out the examples I folded a while back, here.

Wonderful Paper Sculptures by Clive Stevens

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Some absolutely stunning paper artwork made by Clive Stevens. I think this is perhaps the best paper cutting I have seen in this genre to date. Wow.

 

(Erik the Red, of course picking an example that follows my own personal tastes…)

Follow the link to check out his several galleries of beautiful work!

Thanks to the great people at the russian site Hand Made for the link.

updated 2016 – a full ten years later! – to point to Clive’s new site.