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nice lady who makes customized origami paper.
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Joel folds a hat
Lots of new origami content being posted these days on flickr- almost too much to try to keep track of! I have a bunch of backlogged posts, which I will get punched out once I tie up some loose ends at work (work, you know, the thing we do when we aren’t folding?)
However I feel I need to point out Joel Cooper’s Hat model:
I suppose it’s bad that I think of everything in the context of it’s lamp-worthiness; I honestly don’t, but when I see things like this I really can’t avoid it.
I also think this would morph really well into an egg. I’ve been in need of a good tessellated egg for a long time now, so if I can pull it off using this as a base I’ll be deeply indebted to Joel for the insight and inspiration. I still can’t get over how well he folds his work!
tessellated origami lamp
new flickr folder freeflyfrog77 created this beautiful lamp out of a 5-foot sheet of paper!
watching the build process on this is fascinating- make sure to read the notes, too. here’s the description of how it was designed:
I used a piece of paper from a roll we have at work (kids draw on it off an easel). I liked the stiffness of it. I used a yard stick and ruler to score all the folds before hand. With a little pressure the paper just “popped” into its fold. It required fine tuning at the points though. As for the pattern it is actually really simplistic. I took a piece of paper one pleat wide and simply folded it to a shape I liked the profile of the lamp to be. I then transferred it on to the paper flipping the angles every pleat…The clincher I think was the scoring. I did it with a mechanical pencil tip with no lead in it. I went through in a few spots due to over pressure but nothing a spot of tape can’t fix.
you can see the whole project photo set here: Lamp Project.
links for 2006-02-08
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Matt Simerson (I keep running into this guy online, somehow…) posts this nicely detailed way to replace most of the .mac functionality with your own *nix box.
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nice instructions for building your own ring light – a way of getting even lighting on a subject that is being macro-photographed.
links for 2006-02-07
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educational page with different lessons for kids on tessellation geometries, and types of symmetries. some easy-to-explain and understand material. (personal reference bookmark)
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Delicious complex geometric artwork, with a strong organic feeling to it. inspiring!