I received an email this morning with 3 more wonderful pieces from Joel Cooper. His origami tessellation 3d masks are really astounding works of art. There are 2 new masks here, as well as a backlit photo of the mask previously shown in this post. Here they are- click the image for the full-size version.

I found these wonderful geometric (tessellated?) origami models on one of my favorite Japanese origami blogs: ATELIER Silver-Hobby | 笠原 邦彦作「長方形の珠」2 There’s quite a few models displayed, many from Kunihiko Kasahara- who’s work I greatly admire. You can see a large selection of some of the great posts (and photos) by looking under the “origami” category, here: 折り紙 Here’s some other great model photos to whet your appetite. There are well over 100 posts, so check it out! and make sure to add it to your feed reader, so you can check out the new stuff that gets posted all the time. And while you’re at it, we offer RSS feeds too…

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I’ll be perfectly honest: I never understood what Chris Palmer was doing with his “PolyPouches”. I had tried going to his website a few times to find out information about his work (no luck there!) but all I found were these things he was calling PolyPouches, and it asked me to buy a subscription to find out more. I just shrugged it off at the time, having no idea what they were thus not a lot of interest. However, the other day I came across this site which features photos from an Origami USA convention in 2001. And by looking at this wide array of them, I figured it out- they are the shapes that are formed at pleat intersections; the kind that those of us just getting started in tessellations are discovering as we go along. He’s already mastered all of this, of course, but for us it’s new. Once I realized that was what these were, it really opened my eyes to some of the possibilities inherent in 3d pleat junctures and just …