More Propellors: Backlit
This is my 3rd and probably last application of the trapezoid-propellor hub...
I wanted to work in more empty-space than the previous version here:
www.flickr.com/photos/8303956@N08/2673571508/
But have a much cleaner look, and more iterations than this one:
www.flickr.com/photos/8303956@N08/2696566843/
To start with, this is folded from a piece of hand-made abaca, leftover from my papermaking class... The final paper is actually a SLIGHTLY irregular hexagon. The edge lengths alternate between 54 and 56. To accomplish this I "cheated"... I divided a regular hexagon into 112ths (7 * 16) and then cut off a strip of width 2 from 3 adjacent edges. The purpose of this irregularity is to center the tessellation...
Since the starting sheet of paper was about 8 1/4" edge to edge, the grid width is about 1/16 of an inch... or 2 mm... making the grid about half the size of any other tessellation I've made...
Anyhow, despite it taking me almost a week to finish, I like the end result... This tessellation emphasizes the parallel pleats moreso than either of the previous versions.
More Propellors: Backlit
This is my 3rd and probably last application of the trapezoid-propellor hub...
I wanted to work in more empty-space than the previous version here:
www.flickr.com/photos/8303956@N08/2673571508/
But have a much cleaner look, and more iterations than this one:
www.flickr.com/photos/8303956@N08/2696566843/
To start with, this is folded from a piece of hand-made abaca, leftover from my papermaking class... The final paper is actually a SLIGHTLY irregular hexagon. The edge lengths alternate between 54 and 56. To accomplish this I "cheated"... I divided a regular hexagon into 112ths (7 * 16) and then cut off a strip of width 2 from 3 adjacent edges. The purpose of this irregularity is to center the tessellation...
Since the starting sheet of paper was about 8 1/4" edge to edge, the grid width is about 1/16 of an inch... or 2 mm... making the grid about half the size of any other tessellation I've made...
Anyhow, despite it taking me almost a week to finish, I like the end result... This tessellation emphasizes the parallel pleats moreso than either of the previous versions.