From the book origami tessellations and also on his website. Aweinspiring geometric designs needed an alternative title, it might be. In this video, im going to show you origami tessellations that i designed, and other ones by eric gjerde. When asked by his parents what he wanted to be when he grew up, fiveyearold eric replied, a paperologist. An extensive gallery showcases tessellations folded by the worlds leading origami fine artistsinspiring you to experiment, innovate, and eventually create your own. It has some great beginner level tessellations if youre just starting out as well as some much harder ones if youre looking for a challenge. Origami tessellations by eric gjerde and alberlos youtube.
But hopefully you see how it was folded from the original paper. Origami spread hex tessellation eric gjerde normal. These pieces look beautiful when lit from behind, due to the variations in brightness and color. Eric gjerde with stepbystep instructions, illustrated crease patterns, and howto photos, youll learn to create these wonderful designs yourself. They have no volume and look like a piece of paper with geometric designs on it. For ease of folding, fold a 16 x 16 square grid and cut one strip each from two adjacent sides to make a 15 x 15 grid. This is a small document describing an original origami work by eric gjerde.
Origami tessellations eric gjerde 20050601 center 7 hexagons reverse side four layers. Eric gjerde origami tessellations pdf origami printing materials. Other pieces utilize three dimensions more fully, with repeated structures rising out of the flat page. On the mathematics side, lang and bateman 8 recently characterized a general family of. I created a little 3 page pdf document for my star twist fold, that has some text. With stepbystep instructions, illustrated crease patterns, and howto photos, youll learn to create these wonderful designs yourself. An explosion in artistic origami tessellations over the past two decades includes chris palmers work in fabric, joel coopers representational sculpture, and eric gjerdes book 7. A closer examination of the model will show that it is not uniformly flat there are raised ridges where multiple layers. Some of his pieces fold nearly flat, forming layers that add just a hint of depth. Erics first book covers the fundamentals of origami tessellations, provides history, and describes simple beginning. Reconstructing david huffmans origami tessellations. Eric s first book covers the fundamentals of origami tessellations, provides history, and describes simple beginning techniques with detailed illustrations and photographs. The top is a modification of the spread hex tessellation, designed by eric gjerde. This pattern is made up of waterbombed collapses with rhombus tiles inbetween.
Eric gjerde demonstrates 25 of his favorite tessellations and turns them into projects for newcomers as well as experienced origamists. Eric gjerde origami tessellations pdf free download as pdf file. This is the original scanned paper with some markup mistakes. Erics first book covers the fundamentals of origami tessellations, provides history, and describes.