Glass Geometry: Introduction to Mathematically Correct Lighting some interesting glasswork done with geometric precision. lots of polygons and polyhedra! (tags: glass glasswork art design lighting geometry polyhedra)

Merlin Mann’s excellent 43folders.com gives us this article on how to survive your day job and keep your creativity intact. Having a job and a creative life | 43 Folders A good read if you’re like me, and have a hard time dropping the work stress when quitting time rolls around.

Deltoidal Trihexagonal Tiling + Stars = Crazy Delicious Originally uploaded by Ori-gomi. Tiled this out on a larger scale, thanks to some 1/64 paper folded by Mawelucky. (thanks again!) As previously stated here, this is a “deltoidal trihexagonal + quasiregular rhombic tiling”. ouch. that’s a mouthful, isn’t it? I like it because it has my favorite shape (the delta rhomboid- looks like a strange piece of pie) and one of my other favorite shapes, a 6 pointed star made up of diamonds. the reverse has another shape I like, which is a pentagon in the form factor of a regular hexagon, but with one side pulled out into a point. extending this pattern to a larger scale (and a full tiling) required a little bit of changing; I oriented all the hexagonal twists (at the center of the stars) in one direction, and made some other pleat adjustments accordingly. So there’s a good amount of rotational symmetry here around the central large hexagon twists, as well as different rotational symmetry around the smaller hexagon twists. …

laureski’s Etsy Shop – Personalized Origami Paper 12 sheets nice lady who makes customized origami paper. (tags: origami paper etsy forsale laureski)

Lots of new origami content being posted these days on flickr- almost too much to try to keep track of! I have a bunch of backlogged posts, which I will get punched out once I tie up some loose ends at work (work, you know, the thing we do when we aren’t folding?) However I feel I need to point out Joel Cooper’s Hat model: I suppose it’s bad that I think of everything in the context of it’s lamp-worthiness; I honestly don’t, but when I see things like this I really can’t avoid it. I also think this would morph really well into an egg. I’ve been in need of a good tessellated egg for a long time now, so if I can pull it off using this as a base I’ll be deeply indebted to Joel for the insight and inspiration. I still can’t get over how well he folds his work!