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ORIPA is now available localized in English, as of version 0.16. This is the new english language page with instructions and downloads for the english language version.
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Hideaki Azuma’s origami blog- fantastic mathematical designs and ideas! long overdue to be linked on my del.icio.us page. He creates a lot of unique designs using curves and pleats- sometimes very intense, and very beautiful.
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DIY LED low-rez movies, up to 1,984 frames long. you send them the animation, they send you the LED panel with your animation programmed into it! not a bad price for such a cool idea.
Latest Posts
Star by Shuzo Fujimoto
I uploaded two crease patterns and some basic info on a star design by Shuzo Fujimoto; here’s my flickr post on the photo shown above.
I don’t really know what the title of this piece is; I saw a crease pattern in a book, and some basic illustrations of the finished design. This is my best effort at recreating the crease pattern and folding sequence, which I think comes out to be very close to Fujimoto’s finished design. I have no idea how he handled some of the collapses, so I did them in the method that makes the most sense to me.
This design is very similar to the star twist v2 I made a while back; this is actually the layout I had been trying to accomplish when I designed that piece. I knew it could be done, but the method has eluded me- and now I know that Fujimoto folded it back in 1976, two years before I was even born.
The folding on this model is really somewhat difficult- I actually folded a partial crease pattern first to get the methodology down, and figure out how I would do it; after that, it was pretty easy. Some of the steps seem illogical but make sense once you understand how it all works. I’d diagram it for you but I don’t particularly want to bring down the origami copyright nuts on my head, so you’re left to your own devices- but I’ll post the crease pattern. I’m not guaranteeing that it’s remotely accurate, but it works out for the pattern I folded here.
Diagram PDFs available here:
https://www.origamitessellations.com/diagrams/star-by-shuzo-fujimoto/
new translation plugin
I just installed automatic machine translation for my blog- you can now autotranslate into German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese.
what a handy little plugin- just click the flag in the upper right hand corner! and you can bookmark the translated pages, no less. very cool.
I notice a lot of visitors running my site through Google and Babelfish translations, so hopefully this will save those folks some time.
Thanks to CW @ futurefeeder for the great plugin tip.
Leaf (by Hideaki Azuma)
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
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?