Pyramid of stars, tessellated Originally uploaded by Melisande*. Melisande on flickr posted this insanely cool mixup of her 3d star tessellation and one of Ralf Konrad’s designs. It’s a grid of 3d star pyramids! unbelieveably cool. I’m in awe of this design. You might also want to check out her website for more photos and diagrams! here’s more photos of it:
Variação da Pinwheel Avesso Contraluz Originally uploaded by mawelucky. Jane (mawelucky on flickr) posted this fantastic pinwheel tessellation. she took the pinwheel tessellation I put online a few days back and changed it around, flipping the hexagons to the other side of the paper (a technique she has used quite successfully on several other works). I think I like this version more, actually. and here’s the other side:
Saw a blip in my technorati feed- which lead me to Thinking Machine, a blog about a lot of generally fascinating vague concepts that I find particularly interesting. but what really impressed me was that he picked up on the comment I left on the dataisnature.com site. Normally I feel like I can’t convey a single word in an understandable fashion, so it was really good to see that I got a message through despite my verbal fumblings. Thanks, Warren!
Doing some reading online about tessellations; found this little snippet from this site. The dual of a tessellation is formed by connect the centers of the shapes in a tessellation so that these segments do not pass through a vertex of the tessellation. The dual tessellations of the regular tessellations are themselves regular tessellations. However, the duals of the semi-regular tessellations are not semi-regular tessellations. So, now I know the official way to discover the dual of the tessellations I am folding. Helpful!
Found this great site via Hideo Komatsu’s blog; he’s a veritable linkfarm of new origami material. Whoever this person is, they have a delightful eye for folding animals, and capturing their essence without unnecessarily complex models. Here’s one of a small bear with salmon: From what I could translate on the description, it sounds like the bear and the salmon are two separate pieces of paper, stuck together with tape. UPDATE: fixed some of the broken link nonsense that was going on with this post. Sorry about that. I’ll do better doublechecking in the future.
