One of the issues is that this type of folding (especially Andy’s design above) require a LOT of extreme precision, which takes fine motor skills and lots of practice. I do, however, have a large pile of designs and patterns, as well as quite a few good friends who do similar kinds of folding, so I have no doubt that we will be able to fill the book with a bunch of great designs that will really get people going on this kind of folding. It’s somewhat of an introductory book into tessellations, although more of a project book than a mathematical tome (I don’t expect there to be much of any math inside it, hopefully.) There’s some other folks out there who can, and will, address that aspect of things in a much better fashion than I ever could. The plan as it stands is a publication date in autumn of 2007. There really aren’t any books out there on this topic (yet), although there are a few in the works, at several different levels.Īs a little bit of self promotion, I’m currently working on a book project with Lark Books (arts/crafts publisher) with the working title of “Creating Origami Tessellations”. I started folding this kind of thing about 2 years ago, starting with some basic geometric folding I saw in a book- and I asked myself, “can I do that with triangles instead?” That lead me down a strange, winding path of self discovery up to the present day. (He’s a very nice and generous guy in person, though!) He’s a little secretive about his work, however- it can be very hard to actually find examples of it online. But from a practical “origami” perspective, they are a good starting point.Ĭurrently, in my opinion, Chris Palmer is the world’s leading origami tessellation artist, by far, and I think probably has furthered the art more than anyone. It started (presumedly) with FUJIMOTO Shuzo and MOMOTANI Yoshiide in Japan, in the 60’s/70’s although there were other people doing similar tessellation work in the US prior to them, as well as more historical precedents that are quite older. No, I am not the originator of this type of origami- just a happy practitioner of it. – two weeks from today, we’re leaving for Brazil! at the end of the month is the Tessellation Expo at the Botanical Gardens in Brasilia if by some odd chance you’re in the area, stop by! or check this website again for a heavy preponderance of photographs, afterwards!) Thanks, Andy, for sharing this great work with us! I highly recommend trying it, especially if you’re not just doing straight grid-based tessellation designs. He’s also right about working with glassine- it really, really helps to see the underlying structures in the designs.
#OCTAGON TESSELLATION FULL#
Sometimes having a great visual clue does more than any book full of text can do. I’m really happy to see more designs like this- as I continue to try to better understand higher geometries and how they all come together, seeing wonderful examples like this helps for me to comprehend things in a better way. It’s based directly on a design from Chris Palmer’s website, Shadowfolds.
#OCTAGON TESSELLATION INSTALL#
If you want to see the applet work, visit Sun's website at, download and install Java VM and enjoy the applet.įour incarnations of the octagon are explicit elsewhere.Andy Wilson folded this marvelous octagonal tessellation pattern out of glassine. This applet requires Sun's Java VM 2 which your browser may perceive as a popup. (One of the blue parallelograms and its corners are draggable.) The tessellation reveals, or perhaps conceals, an octagon which in several incarnations is decomposed in various ways. The applet below conceals, or perhaps reveals, the parallelogram identity in one of the plane tessellation suggested by the Law of Cosines. Parallelogram Law asserts that the sum of squares formed on the diagonals of a parallelogram equals the sum of squares formed on its sides.
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