Popcorn Twist Tessellation Originally uploaded by infinite-origami. new-to-flickr origami tessellation folder infinite-origami is working on an interesting new tessellation he’s calling a “popcorn twist”. it looks somewhat like the owesen puffy star thing, but is more like a tower with what looks to be a solid locking mechanism on the bottom giving it more structural integrity. should be interesting to see how this folds out for him! pop over and take a look.

unnamed design in process, WIP, backlit Originally uploaded by Ori-gomi. Fooling around with some of the same folding concepts behind the star twist v2.1. interestingly enough, doing the same process with a triangle base yields odd hexagonal shapes as one grows increasingly larger. However, so far they are overly clumsy, and multiple attempts have not found a more desirable folding method. too much extra paper on the reverse so far. time to unfold and try a different attack. Folded the original design out of unryu, which was much more compliant for such a layered concept- this sheet of standard kami is giving up the ghost. look for a future photoset detailing a simple method of producing wonderful tessellation paper, soon!

Slowly working on porting www.origamitessellations.com to WordPress, and integrating blog content. This means that origomi.blogspot.com will be deprecated, and the old main page from origamitessellations.com will go away. The downside of all this is that I’m losing the ability to maintain the Portuguese content of my page; this is a bummer. but I can’t find any good multilingual plugins that seem to “just work”. I’ll still do my best to keep it in both, but we’ll have to see how that all works out in the long run.

I’ve added a new gallery, featuring the second version of my star twist- this one is a big improvement in my opinion. Please take a look and see what you think!

Origami landscape : stars and clouds over the mountains, backlit Originally uploaded by Melisande*. Mélisande brings this amazing artwork to us on flickr, and shatters my mental picture of what is possible and expected from “origami tessellation” pieces. Is it a tessellation? is it geometric art? is it both? is it neither? I don’t know how to categorize this piece, as I have never seen anything similar to it before. As I mentioned in an initial brief comment on her photo page on Flickr, this is a very moving piece that is reminiscent of many schools of artistic thought and design, as well as different time periods of human history. It reminds me of both Modern design, and ancient paintings on the walls of forgotten civilizations. This is fascinating to me. I can only hope to see more works like this from Mélisande, and draw inspiration from them. Beautiful art refreshes and uplifts the soul.