Paper Pattern 10 Photos | Puff Star Garden: Back | 623

Paper Pattern 10 Photos | Puff Star Garden: Back | 623

Folded from a 15'' by 12'' (approximately) sheet of elephant hide gridded into 48ths in the short direction. This was a different experience for me, being only the 2nd time I've EVER folded elephant hide (the first time was to fold a rhino many many years ago). I designed this tessellation to be sort of a further developed form of the flat designs I've been doing almost exclusively for a while. I designed the pattern like I normally would, but leaving a hexagonal twist with long pleats to make room for some ''play'' (from which I decided to just turn into a standard puff-star)... I really like the end result. It's like the puff stars are growing from a bed of propellers. I've got a few large sheets of elephant hide. I'll be looking to doing more works along this line soon. Note: For anyone trying to fold this tessellation, it's not that difficult to collapse. If you precrease everything in the CP (including the non-grid lines), you can collapse it in 3 stages. 1. Collapse the hexagonal twists and triangle twists. 2. Working one at a time, go around undoing the triangle twists and fully collapsing the rest of the crease pattern. 3. Apply some function to the hexagonal twists (in my case, a puff star). Slanted View: www.flickr.com/photos/8303956@N08/3711187307/ Another Slanted View: www.flickr.com/photos/8303956@N08/3711998914/ Front: www.flickr.com/photos/8303956@N08/3711998664/ CP (w/o puff-stars): www.flickr.com/photos/8303956@N08/3711997352/

This photo was taken on 2000-01-10 by Daniel Kwan.

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