Beyond origami: New algorithm designs expandable 3D lattices
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Chances are you’ve seen Hoberman spheres, those kinetic lattices made of joint-connected rods that, with a little manual effo...
This origami tessellation follows a path that I've taken recently with several others. It mixes elements of flagstone tessellations with tuck fold techniques in order to discover...
This is a neat one with some interesting features.Some of the structure is simple. Open hexagons with double rhombuses around them. Pretty standard flagstone type stuff. But what...
A new style that I've been tinkering with occasionally is one that combines elements of both linear and rotational patterns. This easy tessellation is my most recent design using...
This is a new advanced tessellation that I created last week and folded this week. It's kind of a diabolical pattern in that it contains six series of seven interconnected triangl...
This origami tessellation uses a similar style to my 'Higgs Boson' design. It swaps out some of the shapes for different ones, but follows the same kind of thought process for how...
Here's a simple idea I had that creates a rather intricate original tessellation. It's so much fun when they turn out that way. The idea is just rhombuses tucked into triangles re...
'Collapsible scissored surfaces' complete trilogy of metamaterial design principles.
At age 11, David Luckensmeyer moved with his family from California to rural New South Wales, where, despite a difficult but formative upbringing, he found refuge in woodworking.
This is an intermediate level tessellation that I recently folded. The idea is two kinds of triangles twisting around an open hexagon. Not too unusual. It's a little different tho...
This origami tessellation is sort of an exercise in how much chaos can be contained in a single sheet of paper. It also features an interesting illusion. When you look at it, it a...
The Sunday Paper #621 August 30, 2026 I am knee deep in weaving A Woven A to Z, hoping to finish the first 13 copies by the end of the year. I use one copy as a reference for weavi...
This hybrid flagstone/collapse tessellation is from just the other day. The concept is to combine classic flagstone style folds with traditional tucks/collapses. I've done a few t...
I've had the pattern for this tessellation for quite some time. It just kind of got lost in the chaos for a while. Finally folded it the other day. When you look at the crease pa...
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It's time for something a little less intense. Sometimes those turn out to be some of my favorite finished designs. For me, I love the puzzle of aspect of complex origami tessella...
In a groundbreaking study, young scholar Miles Wu delves into the use of origami techniques for emergency shelters. He meticulously examined fifty-four variations of the Miura-ori...
Lately, I've been looking for tessellations where I can incorporate a triad of triangles into the design. By that I mean, a set of three small triangles tucked into a central trian...
It took a little while to figure out how to get this tessellation to work properly. But I was confident that it could work and I would up hitting upon the solution. My starting ide...
From a custom typeface for a fictional field of "therolinguistics" to a book that 3D prints its own instructions, the Singapore-based designer explains how research and language sh...
I've come up with a few different tessellations based off of the starting point of three trapezoids tucked into the points of a triangle collapse. 'Stock Market' is one. 'Eyes of...
The Sunday Paper #617 August 9, 2026 I’m in Aspen for the weekend with my husband Ted (who edits Aspen Sojourner Magazine) and our dog Stryker. We drive right by the Powers Art Cen...
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