Origami Tessellations

• 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.

This piece was difficult to fold- the larger paper, combined with the fact that almost all of the twists required lots of squashing and manipulation, made it rather complicated to do.

Still, looking at it right now (it’s on my desk at work) I have a hard time believing it’s folded from one sheet of paper.

• 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!