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8-sided Compass Rose jar by Oschene

Published by ericgjerde

This is my first attempt at folding Phil’s (aka Oschene) 8 sided Compass Rose Jar (with Iris closure). what a title!

His wonderful sequenced CP is here:

origami.oschene.com

I had some trouble with it, because I printed it out on my laserjet – no color indicators as to fold orientation. However it’s pretty easy to figure out.

I really like the way it collapses into itself by doing a funky twist- it was non-intuitive at first, but now it seems so easy!

definitely good to have crisp paper on this one. mushy small paper doesn’t work too well.

Thanks again for sharing this with us! I appreciate it.

pentagons and negative stars

Published by ericgjerde

Wow. Joel took the pentagonal negative space thing and really ran with it! Check out this amazing design he’s working on.

I think the larger pentagon twist in the center (which could fit a star inside it, from a size perspective) might help to lend some larger tessellation-oriented stability to the pattern. It will need some other shapes thrown in, but I think there’s a lot of promise in this. I’m amazed by it already- folding pentagons is hard work! there’s a whole lot of reference creases there that need to be worked out, etc.

Only Joel can get away with calling this “hurriedly designed”, by the way. The rest of us would most likely call it “painstakingly done”.

I’m hoping to see something like this backlit; if he gets a CP for it, I’ll try to get it onto something thin and transparent to see what it looks like.