Origami Tessellations

3r+6r
Originally uploaded by ttaakkaa.

a new flickr friend has some very interesting tessellations folded from newspaper and fabric!

true p6 tiling (orbifold notation: 632) backlit
Originally uploaded by Origomi.

working on p6 tilings. neato.

I posted a little link on the Origami Forum, located here:

http://www.thekhans.me.uk/phpBB2 (there was a LOT more link there I trimmed out!)

I came across this web forum of origami people! including quite a few people I know, like Gila, John McKeever, Boaz Shuval, etc. (I suppose “know” is being used here in a very casual way!) I’m hoping that I can have some interesting conversations on there. I hope I can wrangle Owesen to sign up if he ever shows up again around these parts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallpaper_group this covers every regular and semiregular tessellation that we can fold, I think. or all the possible orientations. I haven’t thought through all the ramifications of this, but I’m pretty sure that anything that we can fold fits one of these models. things get a little more complicated topologically since the paper isn’t really “flat”, and there’s more dimensions to the folding, but that’s rather beyond me.

I found this through my technorati RSS feed for “tessellations”; it’s “Makoto Nakamura’s Tessellation World”. it has some really neat animated tessellation scenes, and some rather unique ideas. definitely worth a look. it’s all in Flash, so be forwarned if you are flash-free.