Andrew Hudson has been making some beautiful curved-fold origami using grids from my recent work with electric fields:
I’m really looking forward to seeing how this develops.
While we’re on the subject of origami… (video)
I made this using Tomohiro Tachi‘s brilliant ‘Rigid Origami Simulator’ (He has some other great stuff on his Flickr)
You can see physical versions of the same corrugations in my earlier deployables vid.
Here are the patterns:
Numbers 3 and 6 were found in the 60s by Ron Resch.
I think number 4 was first done by John Mckeever and 2 and 5 by Ben Parker
The ‘bricklaying’ style number 2 in particular seems promising to explore further. It has a nice volumetric quality when fully folded and feels quite strong. It looks like it could be easily adjusted to give different curvatures.
I was thinking these corrugations might work well as the core in a (curved) structural sandwich panel. I wonder, is anybody already doing this sort of thing?
-update
just found an example of this sort of ‘industrial origami’ here: Tessellated Group
Next step would be to combine it with something a bit like this pattern for variable curvature (by Tomohiro Tachi again).
Of course you would need to fold the linerboard as well, or use multiple strips. But doubly curved sandwich panels – Surely that could be really useful for all sorts of things!
March 24, 2009 at 8:45 am
Nice blog… the video gives a greater detail on how to fold… Thanks for sharing..
April 2, 2009 at 8:25 am
Hi!
Great work. Verz interesting stuff. I am a former AA student (EmTech 2008/2009) now considering a PhD and working as a research associate at Stuttgart University (Institute for computational design). You seem to have not only great knowledge in origami, but also the underlying mathematical rules and the implementation into scripts / software. Especially your background is interesting, as you seem to have some interest in “structural origami patterns”. I just cam across “parquet deformations” (William Huff): http://www.tess-elation.co.uk/pd1/pd1.htm
Do you have any experience with these patterns? I think they are very interesting because they “morph”. This yould have various implications on the architectural scale. I would be very interested in your reply or anybody who reads this.
April 2, 2009 at 10:51 am
Hi Mo. Many thanks for the Huff link. Those parquet patterns are great – Just the kind of stuff I’ve been exploring lately.
I agree, the morphing aspect certainly has some interesting implications. Would you care to expand further on any particular ones you had in mind?
April 3, 2009 at 10:17 am
Hi Daniel,
good to hear, that you consider this topic interesting. I have very little knowledge of tesselations ( my background having mostly to do with spring-based particle systems – morse2008.blogspot.com ), but I am currently looking at THIS ONE:
parquet tesselation
As far as I am concerned, it is from Douglas’ Hofstadter’s Book: http://www.amazon.com/Metamagical-Themas-Questing-Essence-Pattern/dp/0465045669
My collegue is building a small GC script, which is able to simulte at least a part of the pattern. If you are interested in having a look at it, let me know. Would be great to know, if you had an idea how to generate it in RhinoGrasshopper.
I am more even more interested in the limits of these patterns: Do they stretch infinitly (theoretically)? The underlying “grid” is very regular (triangular). Could the tesselation be applied to a different ordering system, once the mechanism has been determined…?
It would be great to get some of your feedback on this stuff, but until then, I will keep you updated. The goal is to built a small, physical prototype of this tesselation. This should be 3D as opposed to 2D. But that is further down the line.
April 3, 2009 at 11:46 am
I will respond more fully later, but in the meantime heres a few relevant links:
a good overview of kinematics and dof
some very nice 2D transforming tesselations
some related student work
Tomohiro’s powerpoint on the math of his origami simulator
April 3, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Hi Daniel,
thanks for the great links.
Just finished doing something in GC (that is absoluetly NOT done, otherwise, I would be happy to send you the script ;-):
http://www.arch-research.net/exchange/parquet_deformation.pdf
I’ll clean up the GC stuff. Should be ready on monday.
Have a nice weekend.
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July 20, 2009 at 11:15 pm
There’s a company called Industrial Origami that is doing work with folding and bending of sheetmetal. They mostly do straight folds, but not exclusively. Maybe you could work with them somehow…
See http://www.industrialorigami.com/
September 23, 2009 at 6:41 pm
hi!! wonderful work!!
what material di you use for models?? paper, plastic?
September 23, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Thanks. I just use regular cheap copier paper. It’s possible to do amazing folding with plastic though – check out Polyscene’s work on Flickr:
May 23, 2010 at 1:10 pm
nice blog, nice article.. thank you so much.
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