Origami Tessellations

I really, really don’t like blogs. web pages I like, but the whole “blog” concept with a gazillion useless tacky bits on the page annoys me.

So since my previous template was geting stranger and stranger in how it didn’t work, I’m cheating and just pasting in someone else’s nicely pre-made template. my bad. I don’t think the 2 people who even look at this site care that much 🙂

Seriously though, a lot of you keep coming here because you’re doing google searches for “origomi” instead of “origami”. I’d suggest the following links:

www.origami.com
www.paperfolding.com
money origami
Bob Nienhuis’s money origami page
www.origami-usa.org
folds.net easy origami tutorials
www.oriland.com
Origami Underground (origami models for adults only)
British Origami Society
Marc Kirschenbaum’s Origami Page
Monkey.org tells you how to make an origami crane
Meenakshi’s huge page of modular origami diagrams
Sarah’s (of megatokyo fame) origami site
wannalearn.com’s links (many of the same sites, and several more for instructions

Hope that helps you get started down the road to some easy origami folding!

If you are looking for origami tessellations and more complex origami, take a look at the links in the righthand “links” column!

woven paper stone stool
Originally uploaded by R.bean.

R.Bean over at flickr has a bunch of photos from a south korean paper arts museum… quite a few of them are just mindbogglingly beautiful and creative.

this is a woven paper stool- amazingly attractive to me, and it gets my paper freak inner-self motivated.

She’s got a whole bunch of really cool photos, so make sure you check them out!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rbean/!

Tiled Hexagon Tessellation v2.0 PDF Available!
Originally uploaded by Origomi.

I have a new diagram, released today. It’s for my tiled hexagon tessellation. This, and the two PDFs published before it, are licensed under a CC license. Yay for copyleft!

Eleven pages of diagrammy goodness, people. dig in and let me know if it works for you. I really like getting photos from people who’ve completed one of my folds!

http://www.linkagogo.com/go/Members/jpib/Origami.

Saw this in my referrer logs, and it’s just chock full of origami linkage. over a hundred, at least. fascinating!

So I’ve been doing a little thinking and exploring about regular and irregular polygon tiling. I’m working right now on some different models depicting the various methods of tiling regular polygons, which honestly is pretty easy to do- I’ve already done quite a few like this so it’s not a challenge, really. I’m looking to have good examples of every type, and to fully depict the possibilities more than anything.

I’ve also been trying to fold tessellations made up of arbitrary angles. I really shouldn’t call these tessellations, as they aren’t, but maybe something closer to aperiodic or chaotic tilings. there’s a LOT of math involved, most of which I don’t understand anymore, so it’s slow and irritating going. but I have found some interesting facts which prove and disprove some things for myself, so I figure that any increase in understanding is a good thing.

I’m taking the next week+ off from work, so hopefully I’ll have a few quiet moments to sit back and think about some of these things and discover some new things (new to me, anyway. there’s nothing new under the sun.)

-Eric