Tuesday, March 31, 2009

ESQUISSE 3: 3D Translation

This was the flower that i started off with:
For my first attempts, I made 3 separate models from 80gsm paper. Model One used strips of paper of increasing size folded and pinned together to form the flower. Model Two used diamond shapes of varying size slotted together to create a curved form making up the petals of the flower. Model Three was a origami model that i made which ended up with varied sized petals. My final models followed the Fibonacci sequence (1, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21...) and appear more proportionally correct. The first model followed the same method of Model One in my first attempts however this time i made the smallest petals 10mm wide and 30mm long, the second layer of petals were 30mm wide and 50mm long and so on. The second model used diamonds of decending size to create the shape of the petals. They, too, used the numbers of the Fibonacci rule to guarentee more correct proportions.





Saturday, March 28, 2009

ESQUISSE 2: Interlocking systems











This was my model for esquisse 2. I used 250gsm card folded into zig-zag patterns and them interlocked in a grid. The box around it made sure that the edges of the grid didnt spread out when the weight was applied and collapse. It worked!

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Leaf folded from paper














I found these images when researching about Fibonacci numbers in nature and ways of folding things found in nature. This leaves are made up from one single bit of paper and are folded to get the different folds. This is the link: http://www.origamitessellations.com/2006/02/16/leaf-by-hideaki-azuma/