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origami salvage yard

Published by ericgjerde

origami salvage yard

Originally uploaded by origami joel.

Joel Cooper has several new photos online- I found this one to be the most striking.

it’s the cast-offs from his mask folding; he says that the designs that don’t work out get re-used as prototyping material. I think we all understand that- especially once you’ve spent all that time precreasing the paper, it feels wrong to just throw it away.

due to the sheer quantity of creases on these designs, it almost looks like faces melting, or something odd like that… they all seem very sad, to me.

I still find these amazing. check his photo stream on flickr for a great set of posts on his creation process for these tessellated masks.

hextessfour-popped

Published by ericgjerde

hextessfour-popped

Originally uploaded by noisia.

Noisia over on flickr folded up this 3d “spread hexagon” tessellation.

It remains one of my personal favorites, and I think it’s one of the easier designs to teach people, if you’re trying to explain triangular/hexagonal tessellations. (my diagrams for it leave a bit to be desired though, and are badly in need of a clean-up.)

I have to say that seeing people fold a pattern that I nominally “created” really makes me happy; although anyone playing with hexagons could figure this out, and no doubt someone did long before I came along.

Still, it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside, and I’m glad I was able to share something like this with someone else. It feels very good to give back to the world, even if it is something as simple as a folded piece of paper.

I sincerely hope that Noisia’s exploration into 3d folded space continues to expand- and that we all are able to benefit and learn new things in turn from these discoveries!

links for 2006-02-03

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