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Spread Hexagons (Eric Gjerde)
10 February 2009 - 10:44pm — Sara
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Yesterday night I first tried the model on a triangle grid with 16 pleat divisions to get a feel for how to do the model. I then moved to transparent paper, and had this stupid idea of doing a triangle grid 64 pleat divisions instead. Hours later... this is the result. This is what robs my sleep!
Paper: 19.5cm square of transparent paper
Model: 15.3cm x 13.7cm
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hard for sara
you guys i buy the book yust waths this video http://www.youtube.com/user/AdamsSara#p/u/170/VOB1FgHfzPI
cool
I made the one with 32 divisions and that was hard too.
Combination
That is excellent! I really thank you for your videos, look on my crazy idea :) http://picasaweb.google.com/vdrnek/Origami#5551985350745378402
how it was folded
do you have to do triangle twists on this model because i could see that there are little triangles on the hexagons and eric gjerde made instructions on how to make hexagons by triangle twists on his website.
Only pleat intersections
This model is solely based on 120 degree pleat intersections. You do not need any triangle twists.
-- Sara
please
Please make a video on this tessellation.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
Great work!
You've done a fantastic job here - wow! And I also can't believe you jumped right into a 64-division folding job... that's pretty amazing.
Thanks for sharing this, I'm really pleased to see such happy feedback! :)
Breathe in the feeling of accomplishment!
Mathematically speaking, a hexagon is the perfect shape, since it holds basic principles in all 9 dimensions.
64 pleat division.. That's
64 pleat division.. That's insane! I've only gone to 32 on a 15x15cm sheet so far, so your triangles are nearly twice as small as the ones I made. I'm quite amazed by the fact that you managed to crease everything quite precisely at this microscopic size.
Precision
I think tessellations will help me improve my precision. I also found that transparent paper helped me align creases, and thus get higher accuracy. Plus, of course, you get nice effects when applying back lighting to the finished model, as I did for this picture.
Excellent maner of practice!
This will help with your fish scales too! (the koi fish project, remember, Sara???)
The Koi!
I do remember, and I've had the same thought already. :)
-- Sara
WOW!
It looks amazing! I only moved on to 32 pleat divisions. By the way the diagrams of this tessellation is also located in Eric's blog. Here is the link: http://www.origamitessellations.com/diagrams/spread-hex-tessellation/