Month: November 2005

New website created!

I’ve merged the content from my origomi.blogspot.com blog site and my origamitessellations.com site, into a single location. I now have active, working RSS feeds, and all sorts of other good things. I’m particularly excited about how much easier it is for me to add items, which means I’m much more likely to keep things up to date. One feature I really like is the flickr photo gallery plugin, which allows me to display all my latest flickr photos in a convenient in-site gallery. check it out here. However, there is a downside: for the time being I am unable to provide Portuguese translations of all my pages, although all diagram documents will be translated (with help from my Brasilian friends!) Meus apologies, origamigos!

The origami tessellation artwork of Ralf Konrad

I first saw Ralf’s Origami Page a while back, and I really liked his hexagonal tessellation work- but I’ve only really discovered the breadth of it lately. Here are a few links showing off his great artwork. http://ditelo.itc.it/people/gretter/brannenburg05/modelli_s/IMG_3256.html http://ditelo.itc.it/people/gretter/brannenburg05/modelli_s/IMG_3254.html and, of course, this one- the most interesting I have seen yet. http://ditelo.itc.it/people/gretter/tassellazioni/konrad.html do those look familiar? and this is from 2003! looks like we all got scooped here by Ralf. Although I would suspect we’re all just refolding designs by Fujimoto, anyway…

The origami tessellation artwork of Ralf Konrad

I first saw Ralf’s Origami Page a while back, and I really liked his hexagonal tessellation work- but I’ve only really discovered the breadth of it lately. Here are a few links showing off his great artwork. http://ditelo.itc.it/people/gretter/brannenburg05/modelli_s/IMG_3256.html http://ditelo.itc.it/people/gretter/brannenburg05/modelli_s/IMG_3254.html and, of course, this one- the most interesting I have seen yet. http://ditelo.itc.it/people/gretter/tassellazioni/konrad.html do those look familiar? and this is from 2003! looks like we all got scooped here by Ralf. Although I would suspect we’re all just refolding designs by Fujimoto, anyway…

The Fitful Flog: Pentagonal Compass Rose Box and φ-Quiddity

Pentagonal Compass Rose BoxOriginally uploaded by oschene. Philip (a newly found origami folder to me) posted this spectacular Phi based fold, which is something like a flower/rose/box thing. Phi rocks my world, but I’m utterly unable to fold complex things out of it- something I’m still working on (pentagonal geometry isn’t the easiest thing to work with at times). He also has crease patterns here so you can fold it! I’d suggest popping over and taking a look. His origami blog is also fascinating as well, and is a new RSS feed for me to take in on a daily basis going forward! The Fitful Flog: Pentagonal Compass Rose Box and φ-Quiddity