Icosahedral Weave, designed by me
I spent an inordinately long time designing this model in 2024, so let me talk about it.
Origami: Icosahedral Weave
A Trivial Knot
Everything is simple except when not
Icosahedral Weave, designed by me
I spent an inordinately long time designing this model in 2024, so let me talk about it.
Pacman Ghost, designed by Oliver Jiang.
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I made an infographic depicting every distinct possible symmetry of 2D periodic groups. There are 17 distinct symmetries, known as the Wallpaper groups. Here is a preview.
“Every 2D Periodic Symmetry”. You can find the full image on my flickr. Vector graphics available on request.
U4-30, designed by Kazutaka Naka
I folded this from someone else’s origami book, which was in Japanese. I don’t know why it’s called U4-30, although I know the “30” comes from the 30 sheets of paper it’s made from. Perhaps this is the sort of technical name you come up with when you’ve designed lots and lots of variants. Yes, it was an entire book of roses and floral balls (Origami Rose & Kusudama). It’s very nice, so I think it deserves an entire book of variants.
It’s a curler unit, meaning the units are attached by twisting them together. I used three slightly different shades of red, which gives it a subtle texture without creating contrast between the different units.
Exdented Boxes, designed by David Huffman
This is a tessellation by David Huffman, which I took directly from an academic article titled “Reconstructing David Huffman’s Origami Tessellations“. It’s a great starting point if you want to fold 3-dimensional tessellations, or at least it would be if anyone made tutorials for it. I’m shocked that this tessellation isn’t more widely known.
Sferica, designed by Riccardo Colletto
I’m out travelling, but I brought some origami paper to fold. I got this model from the 5th Geometric Origami Convention, and folded it on the train. It’s essentially a variant of the herringbone tessellation, but slightly shifted so that it makes a shape like a sea urchin.
Polyrhythmic flower, designed by me
This is a pleat-based design, similar to other designs I’ve posted before. They’re fairly simple to fold on the spot and improvise. This probably took me like 20 minutes to fold, but I like the idea.
So what’s the idea behind this one? I fold the paper into 16 divisions… and also 15 divisions. So the outermost pleat is 1/16 – 1/15 = 1/240. The next pleat is 2/16 – 2/15 = 2/240, and so on. So the pleats are very small towards the edge of the paper, and very large towards the center. Ever since I demonstrated this idea to myself, I’ve been wondering how I can apply it to make more complex designs.
How do I fold 15 divisions, you ask? I have some diagrams here, but I’ve been thinking for a while I ought to make some clearer diagrams.