Origami Tessellations

Double triangle twist, shadowfold view

Originally uploaded by cati1ine.

We were all very pleased to see some tessellations from Andy Wilson posted on flickr, and added to the Origami Tessellations photo pool!

Andy has been folding tessellations for quite a while, and has some really amazing work out there. He was the person who really inspired me to start folding tessellations, as his work was really some of the only photos available online to study and learn from. So he’s been quite an inspiration for my work, and I’m really pleased to see some new items from him- and have him join our little virtual tessellation group!

He’s only got 2 photos on flickr right now, but if you have an account make sure to add him as a friend so you see his work pop up in the future! Flickr is free to use, and only costs money if you want to have more or less “unlimited” photo uploading abilities- I think it’s quite worth it, but you can post a lot of photos without paying a thing. I highly recommend it as a fun and interactive way of sharing your origami work with the world at large!

Looking forward to more fascinating tessellations from you, Andy!

I saw these wonderful folded artworks by Richard Sweeney this morning, thanks to a tip from Oschene. There’s some very interesting concepts here, and some wonderful rounded shapes- reminiscent of Huffman’s curved folding, in some ways. Richard really must have spent a lot of time figuring out his folding techniques for these works- creating curves is amazingly hard to do accurately and cleanly!

It’s some very impressive stuff, Richard- thanks for posting them on Flickr so the world can see your art.

two wonderful examples- check out his whole photostream for more wonderful works

This is totally unrelated to origami, but I thought I’d post it anyway.

My Brazilian co-worker was in an “Ultimate Cage Fight” this last weekend- he knocked out his opponent in 7 seconds with one kick. My wife and I went to the event, which honestly was pretty bizarre- but it was really fun to cheer for my friend and see him accomplish what he has been training for these last 6 months.

here’s the link:

https://www.origamitessellations.com/MaltaFight.wmv

Don’t watch this if you’re easily disturbed!

Looking forward to your next crazy cage fight, Caio.

See more info from his friend’s website here, including photos and the fight poster.

This won’t be a common sidestep from my normal website content, but it was just weird enough to share it with those of you who know me. For those of you who don’t- this isn’t my normal taste in entertainment 🙂

-Eric

Sweet- the Make: magazine blog picked up my link submission of Joel Cooper’s work. Thanks Natalie, for sharing this with everyone out there on the internet- getting some more exposure for Joel’s amazing art is only a good thing!

My Latest Folding

Originally uploaded by Ori-gomi.

Here’s what I’ve been up to lately.

rest of post blatantly ripped from my flickr page:

So, I haven’t posted much origami lately. There’s a few reasons for this.

We had some family issues with surgery, and then with everyone being sick, which really isn’t all that is conducive to artistic creation. That’s been an ongoing problem for a few weeks, and thanks to those of you who gave me some support through that, I appreciate it.

…and the other thing is that I have been doing a lot of folding that just isn’t something that is worth sharing! I’ve been playing around with octagons, dodecagons, and other many-sided polygons and their various uses in making tessellation designs; however, much of my test folds are incomplete partial sections that are useful only for me, as a reference fold.

Hopefully all this playing around will yield some fruit, in the form of a larger tessellation of more complex shapes, but I’m not quite sure how that is going to come together quite yet.

I’m working on it, though- here’s a shot of the box of test folds I’ve been carrying around every day with me. I keep adding things to this pile, and then taking them away and putting them in storage at home, as ideas come and go.