Andrew/Fred 3 – Voronoi Tessellation photoset on Flickr beautiful, beautiful voronoi tessellations! (tags: voronoi tessellation tessellations tesselation tesselations flickr photos geometry nature)

Analysing the Flower Tower Dennis Walker analyzes Chris Palmer’s “Flower Tower” design. (tags: origami design flowertower geometry chrispalmer denniswalker) Bearing Trampoline Game like Marbleworks, or some kind of Flash animation game, but real-life! bouncing steel ball bearings from trampoline to trampoline, easy to make with some balloons and empty cans. much fun. (tags: toy game marbles bearings trampoline bouncing fun)

ORIPA; Origami Pattern Editor – English Language Page – PukiWiki-ORIPA ORIPA is now available localized in English, as of version 0.16. This is the new english language page with instructions and downloads for the english language version. (tags: origami ORIPA pattern editor software free Junmitani geometry) AZUMA Hideaki: ManyFolds in Variety Hideaki Azuma’s origami blog- fantastic mathematical designs and ideas! long overdue to be linked on my del.icio.us page. He creates a lot of unique designs using curves and pleats- sometimes very intense, and very beautiful. (tags: origami geometry mathematics azumahideaki paperfolding 折り紙) BIT EDITIONS DIY LED low-rez movies, up to 1,984 frames long. you send them the animation, they send you the LED panel with your animation programmed into it! not a bad price for such a cool idea. (tags: DIY LED art lowrez animation)

I uploaded two crease patterns and some basic info on a star design by Shuzo Fujimoto; here’s my flickr post on the photo shown above. I don’t really know what the title of this piece is; I saw a crease pattern in a book, and some basic illustrations of the finished design. This is my best effort at recreating the crease pattern and folding sequence, which I think comes out to be very close to Fujimoto’s finished design. I have no idea how he handled some of the collapses, so I did them in the method that makes the most sense to me. This design is very similar to the star twist v2 I made a while back; this is actually the layout I had been trying to accomplish when I designed that piece. I knew it could be done, but the method has eluded me- and now I know that Fujimoto folded it back in 1976, two years before I was even born. The folding on this model is really somewhat difficult- I actually …

I just installed automatic machine translation for my blog- you can now autotranslate into German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. what a handy little plugin- just click the flag in the upper right hand corner! and you can bookmark the translated pages, no less. very cool. I notice a lot of visitors running my site through Google and Babelfish translations, so hopefully this will save those folks some time. Thanks to CW @ futurefeeder for the great plugin tip.