A variation on the Kawasaki shell, and some very bad Unix humor! To me, a triangular opening is more satisfying given the overall angularity of the model. My version also has no raw edges in the spiral section. I taught it at OUSA this past summer along with a modified spiral-lid Fuse box. |
I found this design on an Anglican church website. The original is a self-extracting bitmap suitable for A4 paper. I modified it somewhat, and converted it to US letter in PDF format. You can download it here it and play with it, too. Enjoy!
Like many origami practitioners, I am also fascinated with repeating patterns. When I first encountered this model, it seemed to scream for an Escher-like graphic. Several years later while visiting friends in northern Texas, I found an MC Escher sticker book at a museum in Dallas, which had designs perfect for modifying to this use. After much fiddling around and figuring out how to make this kind of design, I managed to create the .jpg files below which when folded retain the repeat by collapsing one of the units around the nucleation points. (Try it, you'll see!)
Escher apparently preferred designs which allowed creatures to travel in an unbroken line all the way around an object. The gray lizard image is colored according to this principle. You may prefer to try a different scheme with the white lizard image.
Fun with wrapping flat
tesselations around origami solids.
1. Download the jpeg files
and print them..
The product of a rainy day collaboration with Deb, who has kids. We were using materials we found on hand. She tried it later with some children of a friend and reported that it was extremely well-received.
Materials:
1. Fold three butterflies.
If not of glow paper, then paint the undersides with glow paint.
Origami imagirO: an EYH workshop for exposing middle school girls to concepts in math and symmetry.
At OUSA 2000 I enjoyed learning models I'd never encountered before. One particularly challenging and enjoyable one was Chris Palmer's flower. After getting home I reverse-engineered the process and managed to convince myself that I knew the model after making these three.
M.C. Escher Origami
2. Cut along the outside
lizard noses and tails to make a square.
3. Fold into Sam Ciulla's
stellated octahedron in The
Art of Origami or Paper
Creations by Gay Merrill Gross, or Pfiffiges Origami by Paulo Mulatinho
Gerard & Paula have enjoyed making this thingie, and posted a beautiful picture of the result on their website.
This one you can color in
yourself.
Glowing Butterfly
Mobile
2 bamboo barbeque skewers with the tips cut
off
sewing thread and a needle
3 sheets glow-in-the-dark
origami paper or 3 sheets standard paper and glow-in-the-dark
paint
OUSA diagrams for Akira
Yoshizawa's butterfly
2. Tie the thread
through the backs of the butterflies and leave about 1.5 feet long.
3. Tie
the sticks together as in the diagram, wrapping
3 times around before tying a square knot.
4. Tie
the butterflies on the sticks.
5. Balance the sticks
by pushing the pivot point toward the end
that's lower.
6. Charge it up with
a lamp, and then turn the lights out!
(poster submitted to 3OSME 2001, Asilomar, CA)
Chris Palmer's Website
Chris' Folding Video
