TNPI – Do it Yourself .mac Matt Simerson (I keep running into this guy online, somehow…) posts this nicely detailed way to replace most of the .mac functionality with your own *nix box. (tags: apple computer DIY Hacks mac freebsd macosx) Build your own macro ring-light nice instructions for building your own ring light – a way of getting even lighting on a subject that is being macro-photographed. (tags: photography lighting ring-light DIY maker hacks camera)
Tantalizing Tesselations!! educational page with different lessons for kids on tessellation geometries, and types of symmetries. some easy-to-explain and understand material. (personal reference bookmark) (tags: tessellations geometry mathematics lessons school learning) The artwork of Kenneth A. Huff Delicious complex geometric artwork, with a strong organic feeling to it. inspiring! (tags: art 3d artwork organic geometry geometric pure)
origami salvage yard Originally uploaded by origami joel. Joel Cooper has several new photos online- I found this one to be the most striking. it’s the cast-offs from his mask folding; he says that the designs that don’t work out get re-used as prototyping material. I think we all understand that- especially once you’ve spent all that time precreasing the paper, it feels wrong to just throw it away. due to the sheer quantity of creases on these designs, it almost looks like faces melting, or something odd like that… they all seem very sad, to me. I still find these amazing. check his photo stream on flickr for a great set of posts on his creation process for these tessellated masks.
Parallel Sinusoids – Backlit Originally uploaded by Owesen. Fredrik Owesen posted these odd, intriguing linear tessellation folds earlier today. Hopefully Mélisande doesn’t feel like she’s the only one folding in this symmetry, now! I personally find the negative space in this design to be the most interesting- it’s an unusual shape, especially in our 30-45-60-90 degree world.
hextessfour-popped Originally uploaded by noisia. Noisia over on flickr folded up this 3d “spread hexagon” tessellation. It remains one of my personal favorites, and I think it’s one of the easier designs to teach people, if you’re trying to explain triangular/hexagonal tessellations. (my diagrams for it leave a bit to be desired though, and are badly in need of a clean-up.) I have to say that seeing people fold a pattern that I nominally “created” really makes me happy; although anyone playing with hexagons could figure this out, and no doubt someone did long before I came along. Still, it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside, and I’m glad I was able to share something like this with someone else. It feels very good to give back to the world, even if it is something as simple as a folded piece of paper. I sincerely hope that Noisia’s exploration into 3d folded space continues to expand- and that we all are able to benefit and learn new things in turn from these discoveries!
