open back octagonal twist, backlit Originally uploaded by Origomi. Diagrams for this simple octagonal twist are available online at: https://www.origamitessellations.com/diagrams/simple-octagonal-twist. it’s a simple model, just sharing it for the fun of it more than anything. take a look!
Found via the OrigamiBrasil mailing list, here’s a gallery of folds done by Danny Gomez. He’s apparently quite the tattoo artist, as well, since this is on a subsection of his tattoo site. http://dannytattoo.com/origami/ take a peek!
Elephant Originally uploaded by Origomi. My wife folded a nice model of an elephant at our origami minnesota meeting last sunday. very cute! made using gold and silver flecked momogami.
open back octagonal twist, backlit Originally uploaded by Origomi. my second foray into octagons. a little better, although the folding method for all this takes a little getting used to. since an octagon is not a “pure” tessellat-able polygon (can’t use it to fill the plane just by itself) all the creases don’t necessarily line up to make things you might want to make. that being said, it’s really a lot like two sets of squares, rotated by 45 degrees with respect to each other. this gets a little confusing as the crease pattern can look a LOT like normal squares w/ 45 degree diagonals, but it’s not- most of the creases never match up in any “proper” spots that you think they might. They do, however, do a lot of interesting things, which I’m going to have to take some time to explore. One very interesting thing that I noticed is that the octagon repeats itself- growing outward in a linear fashion, each set of creases makes another larger octagon. This is interesting, of …
Octagonal Twist thingie Originally uploaded by Origomi. Anyone interested in having this model diagrammed? it’s a simple, single octagonal twist, but it seems to be popular for reasons I don’t understand.If you’re interested in having me diagram it, drop me a line and let me know:
