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Eric Gjerde’s web site has many crease patterns.Read about Rikki Donachie’s first tessellation which took 3 hours of creasing and over 4 hours of paper-coercion.Three words of advice: patience, practice, and perseverance. Often, the pre-creased paper needs to be jiggled and tugged to coerce it into its final shape. Alternatively, begin working from one edge of the paper and extend towards the opposite edge.

When folding the pre-creased paper into the final model, it sometimes works best to start from the center of the paper and work outwards.

fold the pre-creased paper into the final shape.Īnother method is to fold an entire sheet of paper into a a grid and then create a model from this grid of creases.

Crease the paper with mountain and valley folds.

Drawn or print a crease pattern onto a piece of paper.

There are very few instructions on how to fold an origami tessellation and the way you fold is a matter of personal preference. Unlike traditional origami, origami tessellations are not made in a linear step-by-step fashion. More information about the history of origami tessellations can be found in David Listers’ essays on Paper Tessellations and their Diagrams. Today, you can see a wide selection of origami tessellations in many Flickr photo sites. Artists including Chris Palmer, Tom Hull, Helena Verrill, and others have developed the art form further. He self-published a few books with origami tessellation examples in them and in 1976, Fujimoto’s “Solid Origami” was the first commercially published book containing origami tessellaions. Origami tessellation may have been started by Shuzo Fujimoto in the late 1960’s. This one sheet of paper is folded such that it has a tessellated pattern. An origami tessellation is not made of separate pieces of paper placed side by side: instead, they are made with one sheet of paper. Origami tessellations have visual similarities to the tessellations mentioned above but they are physically quite different.

Here is a self portrait, sitting in a bar, reading his own book, and calling the waiter with his finger.Before you read about origami tessellations, do you know what is a tessellation? If not, please read this section first. Nicolas has – like Escher – no background in maths, but says all that is required is a sense of wonder and a desire to always do better. “His work has everything, recognisable silhouettes, quality, variety, number, level of innovation, next to no padding, and all rendered to a most pleasing standard of finish. It takes a lot of geometrical acuity to make shapes that fit together and are convincing representations.ĭavid Bailey, a British tessellation artist, believes that Nicolas is the best tessellation artist in the world. You can see many of them on his extensive website (but don’t peek until you have solved the puzzles!).ĭrawing tessellations is not easy. Now retired, he spends half his free time designing tessellations and recently finished his 400th. Nicolas’ work is also stunning and witty. Escher’s tessellations of interlocking birds, fish and lizards are some of the most recognisable mathematical art of the twentieth century striking and playful as well as breathtakingly ingenious. Red and green fish Illustration: Alain NicolasĪlain Nicolas, aged 73, was inspired to create his own tessellations on seeing the work of Escher four decades ago.