Leaf Originally uploaded by Mélisande*. Melisande folds up this stellar model from AZUMA Hideaki, who’s blog ManyFolds in Variety is noteworthy reading (and previously unmentioned on this blog, apparently. not sure how I missed posting it!) This particular version is a modification by Melisande, which I think I actually like more than the original.

Fin_Shelter_07.jpg Originally uploaded by rivermare. browsing through tags on flickr, and found this! some beautiful artwork made with a laser cutter- check out the whole photostream for some more artistic goodness. life-sized tessellations look like fun. anyone want to spot me the $15k to pick up a laser cutter?

Roberto Soto posted this email to the Origami-L mailing list: I just found this Java based program named ORIPA. It’s a program to create crease patterns (or to draw existing crese patterns), but the funny thing is that it can actually show youde finished model. I was just wandering if any of you have heard or read about it before?? the link: http://mitani.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/pukiwiki-oripa/ I had to reply to this, of course- ORIPA is a wonderful software tool, and deserves more attention from the western origami world. I was pleased to find that Jun Mitani had localized it to English, and made an English language page with instructions for how to get it working. That’s a lot of extra work for him, especially with a new baby at home, and I’m very grateful he took the time to do that. Here’s my reply to the O-list. I wrote a bit about this program on my site a few months ago: https://www.origamitessellations.com/2005/12/12/figuring-out-things-with-oripa/ Jun Mitani’s program is quite an excellent one, which works out amazingly well for folding …

Random Tessellations of the Plane I think I’m addicted. someone else finds this stuff as fascinating as I do! Voronoi tessellations, Delaunay triangulation, and other random and quasi-random tessellations & geometry. (tags: voronoi tessellation tessellations delaunay random geometry geometric math mathematics polygons)

Spacelike tessellations of tetrahedrons seriously cool 3d tessellations; do you like Hoberman Spheres? then check this out. (tags: tessellations 3d polyhedra geometry architecture)