{"id":1122,"date":"2009-03-28T15:20:17","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T22:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/28\/origami-tessellations"},"modified":"2009-03-28T15:20:17","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T22:20:17","slug":"origami-tessellations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/28\/origami-tessellations","title":{"rendered":"Origami Tessellations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.origamitessellations.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">this site about origami tessellations<\/a> around a year ago, I think. I was immedately intrigued by the idea since it combines two things that have long fascinated me: origami and geometric patterns. The owner of the site, Eric Gjerde, published a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1568814518?tag=origamitessel-20&amp;camp=213381&amp;creative=390973&amp;linkCode=as4&amp;creativeASIN=1568814518&amp;adid=16HGD6HN4JY9KERGTQDT&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">book<\/a> not long ago.<\/p>\n<p>The book is very nicely done, with lots of photographs and very clear instructions. There are 25 projects, grouped in three levels of difficulty. I completed the first and second projects a few weeks ago; here&#8217;s a photo of the second:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_0669 by Adam Schabtach, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/studionebula\/3392757881\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0669\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3612\/3392757881_4e4ff1c50d_b.jpg\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(You can click on that photo to see a larger version on my flickr site.) To state what may be obvious to some, it&#8217;s folded from one sheet of paper, no cutting involved, just folding.<\/p>\n<p>The projects do require fairly large paper. One starts by pre-creasing the paper, dividing it into at least 32 subdivisions. I used <a href=\"http:\/\/paperjade.com\/product_info.php?cPath=23_41&amp;products_id=277\" target=\"_blank\">sheets of 13.8-inch paper<\/a> for the first two projects, but I may end up <a href=\"http:\/\/paperjade.com\/special_orders.php\" target=\"_blank\">special-ordering some sheets of kozo<\/a> for the more advanced projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across this site about origami tessellations around a year ago, I think. I was immedately intrigued by the idea since it combines two things that have long fascinated me: origami and geometric patterns. The owner of the site, Eric Gjerde, published a book not long ago. The book is very nicely done, with&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/28\/origami-tessellations\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Origami Tessellations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}