… that you get linked to from a Serbian bulletin board. Run by a guy named SerbianFighter. !!!! Zanimljivi linkovi ~ Clipovi ~ Flash igre :: Origami Tessellations

와인이 있는 식탁 (my translation tool says this: ‘With the dining table which is the person’. who knows?) I can’t link to the images, unfortunately, due to some brain-dead javascript ugliness that prohibits me from linking to them (the blog hosting company, not the person!) very impressive stuff. not origami, more like supremely artistic kirigami, but still appetizing. the use of a single sheet of paper makes it more interesting!

WIP triangle fold, redux (reverse) Originally uploaded by Ori-gomi. a slightly different attack on the triangle thing. can you tell that when I mentally envision something, I have to create it or it drives me nuts? this design is giving me stress, and I want to complete it and be done with it already. regardless, here is a modified base, folded from a sheet of treated unryu. it’s actually one of the scrap pieces left over from my testing process, which explains the random edges, etc. it’s very lovely paper, and is great to fold- it’s extremely thin, but treating it properly makes it stiff and springy. much more so than standard kami (the paper you buy in a pack of 100 from the paper store.) Something else worth noting here- on the star version of this fold, you’re taking a pattern with hexagonal symmetry which gives you 6 shapes (thusly, 6 triangles). if you try the same methodology with triangular symmetry, you get 3 shapes with 6 sides. I suppose this is rather obvious, …

treated unryu paper Originally uploaded by Ori-gomi. So I had a hard time finding out what sort of Methyl Cellulose I should use on thin paper like unryu (like washi, made with mulberry or something similar). MC makes it stiff- you get it as a powder and mix it up, apply it, let it dry, etc. I got a great tip from someone on the Origami-L mailing list to use Sodium Carboxymethyl Cellulose, which apparently dries stiffer than regular methyl cellulose. I’m not a chemist (that’s my wife!) so I really wouldn’t know, but I checked out the place he recommended. it was $26.95 for a 100g bottle, which would have lasted quite a while but seemed expensive to the cheap old man inside me. So having put this off for a while (and I picked up a large supply of great papers that need it!) I happened across something this weekend that seems to solve my problem. at my parent’s house, working down in my dad’s woodshop, I noticed a can of “spray starch” …

growabrain: Death in the snow got a nice mention on this blog, full of some rather odd links (which now, of course, includes me in that category!)