Folding Patterns

    Some of my old folding experiments.
    See a video of them in action here
    I think the first one is what people call a waterbomb tesselation.
    Number 3 and 6 I think are usually associated with Ron Resch.
    I dont know if 2, 4 and 5 have been documented before.
    Number 2 has a surprising very slight single curvature when fully folded, which is associated with the near packing of tetrahedra I wrote about here:
    spacesymmetrystructure.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/an-unexpe...

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    2. origami_madness (51 months ago | reply)

      Ben Parker has versions of two and five:
      www.flickr.com/photos/brdparker/455126588
      www.flickr.com/photos/brdparker/439798919

      Number four was, I think, first folded by John McKeever: www.flickr.com/photos/thiomor/2274975486/in/s et-720575941...

    3. Daniel Piker (51 months ago | reply)

      Thanks. Ben has some nice stuff I hadnt seen before. I dont really understand what he means by 'naturality' though.

    4. origami_madness (51 months ago | reply)

      I think he's referring to the fact that the waterbombs can't be fully collapsed-- and therefore don't tile in a "natural" way.

      Ben's explored this sort of pattern more than anyone else, to my knowledge, so if you're into waterbombs definitely take a good look at his work.

    5. Daniel MacGibbon (50 months ago | reply)

      agreed, Ben was a primary reference for me when I was examining possible implications for it

    6. Daniel Wyllie (36 months ago | reply)

      Wonderful!!!

    7. *.*bob (35 months ago | reply)

      Tout à été dit de la géométrie, en deux dimensions on retrouve le même langage.
      l'ouverture du pavage se fait avec la translation du bas vers le haut et avec la la rotation des lignes.
      le modèle en trois dimensions permet de voir le recto du verso comme pour la 3D stéréoscopique.
      très bon développement de la technique du pliage géométrique*****

    8. Prof. YM (15 months ago | reply)

      Have you come up with some UNIFIED THEORY on tiling origami?
      I found that some of patterns have relevance to Negative Poisson's ratio Materials.

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