Christine Edison posted this lovely waterbomb tessellation photo, and had asked who designed it. Ray Schamp mentioned Tom Hull’s wonderful intro to 3d tessellations class at the 2006 OUSA convention, where Ron Resch’s work was heavily discussed. To facilitate further discussion on the topic, here’s Ron’s patent paperwork in PDF format- it’s expired and is now public domain. It’s quite nice to reference him, though, as he really is quite an ingenious creator. I need to buy a copy of his DVD that Tom was talking about. If I get one I’ll be sure to do a review of it. Anyhow, here’s his patent: Ron Resch, Patent # 3407558.

We’re coming into the last two days of the Tessellation Exposition here in Brasília, and it’s been a really fun week so far. I think these last two days will see a good amount of visitors- we have done a number of different press interviews, and were mentioned in the paper, etc. so I’m really hoping it pulls in some more foot traffic. All in all, I’ve been quite pleased with the whole event, even with a lot of last-minute changes, Andy Wilson’s pieces not showing up until 1 hour before the opening, and so on! We’ve taken a lot of pictures, which will take me several days to sort through. I had really wanted to give a better “day by day” update of what was happening but the internet access here has conspired against that possibility. One of the last items we’re talking about is the creation of an “official” expo booklet, with photos, information, and a selection of diagrams and/or CPs from the event. We’ve narrowed down the selection of items to be …

Jardim Botânico, Tessellation Exposição! Originally uploaded by EricGjerde. The tessellation exposition in Brasília is underway, and has had a lot of visitors! yesterday we did a folding demonstration in the afternoon and the guard had to come and make everyone leave because the park had closed and nobody had noticed… The banner here says “Tessellation: First International Show”. We’re having a great time here, although the internet is a little slow so most of the photo uploads will have to wait until we return to the States. There are a lot of good shots of the whole event!

Cafezinho at Maria’s Originally uploaded by EricGjerde. Late night folding in Brasil- powered by Maria’s delicious cafezinho! Muito bom!

We arrived in Brasilia on Wednesday afternoon after 24 hours of travelling, and met our friend Jane at the airport. After a long night of sleep, we went the next day to the national university and checked out Jane’s father’s chemistry lab- my wife Bekah was in heaven (as a chemical engineering major). Later, we went to Jane’s friend Maria’s outside of Brasilia and spent a wonderful day in the outdoors and in their beautiful house. We had a great lunch and dinner there too, and the rest of the tessellation expo group will be enjoying a barbecue there and swimming! There are orchids, palm trees, wild monkeys, parrots, and all sorts of things. Maria is a very gifted artist and has magnificent mandala artwork everywhere. Late last night we picked up our lost luggage from the airport (hooray for clothes) and this morning we visited the Jardim Botanico, where the tessellation expo will be taking place July 29th to August 6th. We picked up copies of the magazine (from the Jardim) and saw the …