I am really happy to recommend you the new origami tessellationbook by Ilan Garibi. – this was the short version, so if you are already convinced to buy it, read no further 🙂 There are several origami tessellation books out there. However some of the books, are not for everyone. Ilan’s book is intended for …
My PhD mentor always encouraged me to pursue mathematical studies even after I finish the PhD. He meant differential equations of course. Until he has seen my spiral paper foldings. Once he told me my origami is cooler than differential equations. I hope he’s proud of me, since I’ve got Honorable mention award at American …
I get a lot of questions of how to perform curved folding. People got discouraged when I tell them about cutting machines. However there’s a way to make it by hand, and that’s exactly how I started curved folding. So you can try to make something curvy without any major investments and rare and special …
There are many kinds of origami tessellations. Some tessellations are entirely flat, some are 3-dimensional. Only some of the tessellations are made in the way that they don’t have a single straight line in their crease pattern. It may be not clear how to fold this kind of origami. Here are some examples of curved-folded …