Took the “impossible” folding routine to a larger scale, and I was quite pleased with how it turned out.
Rest assured, though, that I won’t be incorporating cutting into my future work- I think this was a one-time thing just to satisfy my desire to see this pattern realized in paper.
And, as always, something new was discovered in the folding of this, which hopefully will allow me to achieve some previously unobtainable goals.
Happy folding!
Joel folded a tessellated version of a design by infinite-origami on flickr. It looks like it was an absolute terror to fold!
Congratulations to both of you, on coming up with such an interesting concept and taking the time to fold it out.
Keep up the good work!
reverse side:
So, I found a way to fold non-convex polygons.
But it requires some unorthodox steps…
can you figure out what I did?
Posting this, as several people have been playing around with pentagons lately:
The 14 Different Types of Convex Pentagons that Tile the Plane (at mathpuzzle.com)
a wonderful set of visual examples of the 14 known tilings.
I found (re-found?) this site, from another site I have bookmarked- Marjorie Rice’s pentagonal tessellation page:
http://home.comcast.net/~tessellations/tessellations.htm
worth looking at as well, especially this design…
