Nonagon Tessellation: WIP
I took one of my three irregular-nonagon designs and morphed it to make the nonagons regular. Then, by changing the angle of the pleats and adjusting their length, I found a combination that has everything line up very nicely.
You will notice that if you trace along a line, you will go through more points and lines as you keep going. Also, all of the angles here are multiples of 20 degrees.
I have worked on composing a nonagon-grid that will include all of the points in this tessellation.
This is very similar to the style of Alex Bateman's work ( www.flickr.com/photos/42673512@N00/ ), but I am focusing on doing gridding instead of CP-printing. This is also similar to the work I did with pentagons.
One thing that I think makes this tiling choice "special" is that the nonagons themselves are tiled in a 6.6.6 pattern instead of a 3.3.3.3.3.3 pattern... what this basically means is that despite positioning a ring of 6 nonagons around the outside, I also have a nonagon in the center, whereas all other patterns I have seen so far have a hexagon in the center of the ring of nonagons.
Based on this previous design: www.flickr.com/photos/8303956@N08/3894806547/
UPDATE: I have completed this design. Please refer to the newer photos of both the model itself and the gridding/folding process.
Backlit view: www.flickr.com/photos/8303956@N08/3921710864/
Nonagon Tessellation: WIP
I took one of my three irregular-nonagon designs and morphed it to make the nonagons regular. Then, by changing the angle of the pleats and adjusting their length, I found a combination that has everything line up very nicely.
You will notice that if you trace along a line, you will go through more points and lines as you keep going. Also, all of the angles here are multiples of 20 degrees.
I have worked on composing a nonagon-grid that will include all of the points in this tessellation.
This is very similar to the style of Alex Bateman's work ( www.flickr.com/photos/42673512@N00/ ), but I am focusing on doing gridding instead of CP-printing. This is also similar to the work I did with pentagons.
One thing that I think makes this tiling choice "special" is that the nonagons themselves are tiled in a 6.6.6 pattern instead of a 3.3.3.3.3.3 pattern... what this basically means is that despite positioning a ring of 6 nonagons around the outside, I also have a nonagon in the center, whereas all other patterns I have seen so far have a hexagon in the center of the ring of nonagons.
Based on this previous design: www.flickr.com/photos/8303956@N08/3894806547/
UPDATE: I have completed this design. Please refer to the newer photos of both the model itself and the gridding/folding process.
Backlit view: www.flickr.com/photos/8303956@N08/3921710864/