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Water Bomb (Eric Gjerde): Instructions
25 September 2009 - 10:35pm — Sara
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This might be the easiest model presented it the book "Origami Tessellations" by Eric Gjerde. It basically is a agglomeration of waterbomb bases, which leads to a visually pleasing result.
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repetitive Triangular tessellation
hi sara!
superb tutorial..wanted to ask if there is any method for tessellating Triangles instead of Squares in the similar fashion?
Try this
Perhaps you want to try out this tessellation: http://www.flickr.com/photos/87477835@N00/31685638/
A link to a crease pattern is also included: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/resch.pdf
-- Sara
Next video?
what video are you going to make next
Vixen by Roman Diaz
I think it'll be Roman Diaz's vixen: http://www.happyfolding.com/gallery-diaz-vixen-2
-- Sara
You are awesome!
Hi Sara,
I am a total novice and I completed a 16 division water bomb last night (took me almost 3 hours). I just want to say: Thank You! Your instructional videos are spectacular. You have a real talent for teaching Origami.
-Casey
Oregon, US
THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!;)
Got it from the first try!!
Rounded
How do you get your brown waterbomb tessellation in a neat round shape.
will that shape depend upon the size of paper you use?
Or does it depend upon the precision of folds?
What is the grid size used for this? Is it 16 by 16 grid?
I guess it depends on the
I guess it depends on the paper you use. Machine-made paper will probably curl much more in one direction than the other, because the paper fibres are aligned, whereas hand-made paper should curl more evenly.
My red waterbomb tessellation now curls a lot in one direction, but not the other, but at the beginning it was still quite balanced. I did use a 16 by 16 grid, yes.
You can of course start with a rectangle and then make a grid that has more rows or columns. Just be sure that each grid square is - well, a square.
-- Sara
Diagonals
When i want to fold a 16division one i get stuck with the diagonals.
I have no idea how to start with those crease.
Higher divisions and how to fold the diagonals
I'm not sure what you could be stuck on. Just like with 8 divisions, put the first X in a corner, then proceed as seen in the video until the while grid is filled with Xs. Hope this helps
-- Sara
tessellation
Thank you again Sara for the video :)
You can find my finished model on my blog: http://www.almightybeanster.com/?p=274
---- doctorbeans ----
Looking good
Those look great! And you went a bit crazy with doing grids with more divisions, didn't you? ;)
-- Sara
crazy yeah!
Hahaha yeah ^_^ and I almost didn't finish :) I used really thick card paper, such a pain to fold ^_^ But I finished anyway... it honestly doesn't look as good when you see it in person (good thing you're way over there and I'm over here hehehe) thanks again for the video. Have you thought about what video to do next?
Next models, who knows...
Well, the Jack in the Box was heavily requested, so maybe that. I'm more keen on the following models though: Star Puff (Ralf Konrad), Snowflake (Dennis Walker), Star Box (Robin Glynn) -- they can all be used quite nicely as Christmas decoration, so doing those should fit well into doing them this time of the year. Ah, we shall see. Maybe I'll manage to do all 4 models this year.
-- Sara
Yep
Yea, those would be a good idea for the upcoming holidays. Most of my families Christmas decorations are hand-made by us, or cut out from cereal boxes for example. It would be nice to have some origami in the mix too.
Size
What was the size of paper you used to make that brown waterbomb tessellation?
19.5cm square
I used a 19.5cm square of relatively heavy paper (115gsm). I think you should easily be able to fold it from a 15cm square, too, though.
-- Sara
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unable to view the complete video even after repeated tries.
Great video
Another great video. I really appreciate that I can start the video, find a piece of paper, begin to follow along in a steady pace not trying to rush things, and 17 minutes later I have finished a nice-looking tesselation while listening to your final insight comments.
forum cp
I think an origami artist named Mark Leonard had posted a crease pattern on the origami forum. That was where I got the diagrams. Also, there is a slanted crease pattern. The normal crease pattern has the result of the squares aligning into a 22.5 degree grid. The slanted crease pattern has the result of the squares lining up into a 90 degree grid.
tesselation
Thanks so much for a wonderful tutorial!! I have finally successfully folded a tesselation. I have tried many times but have given up before anything came out of it. Thanks for the help!!
Linda
grid divisions
hi sara how many grid divisions dose the one you made have the one with a bunch of squares?
16 divisions
That's one with 16ths in the beginning.
-- Sara
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