If you have a Digg account, please take a minute to go “digg” a link to Joel’s origami:
http://digg.com/technology/Amazing_Origami_Mask_Tessellations
The more “diggs”, the more visibility the story gets. Thanks!
-Eric
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Origami crumpling
Spotted: Floderer style crumpling, by a new flickr member- Orbán Zoltán.
I enjoy the look of this kind of origami, although I can’t imagine where to even begin if I wanted to fold such a piece.
There’s a number of great photos in the photostream, so make sure to check them out!
-Eric
Joel Cooper makes the April 2006 BOS magazine cover!
Saw this preview thanks to Sajid Khan of Origami BBS fame.
He just got back from the BOS Spring 2006 convention, and had this preview image of the April 2006 BOS magazine- who is that on the cover!?
It’s Joel Cooper’s model Mask 8a, (which I keep calling Nebuchanezzar, although I don’t know what he prefers it to be called.)
Here’s the real deal:
Congratulations, Joel!
Tessellations by Danilo from Chile
Danilo from Origami Chile sent me these wonderful photos. Apparently they set up an exhibition in the main library in Santiago, Chile last friday (3/31). It sounds like this piece started out as a .7m x 3m sheet of Kraft paper, and ended up as a 45cm x 1.45m final work- that’s really big!
Danilo did a wonderful job of folding this- he credited me on the name plate for it, but I know for a fact that Fujimoto (and many, many others) have folded it before I did. It’s a natural folding pattern for a tessellation of diamond shapes based on equilateral triangles.
This highlights the importance of sharing ideas and images, though- I don’t know if Danilo has ever seen those other works, and I know that I didn’t see any of them until recently. So it’s important to share knowledge, everyone!
Thanks again Danilo for sending these photos- it’s a wonderful job you did folding this, and I’m very happy to see tessellations in a public display!
links for 2006-04-07
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A little page with some helpful diagrams for folding centered polygon shapes. quite useful.