twist w/ offset edges, study, reverse, backlit, recursion level 2
some work photos of a new pattern, part of a folding study. this is the level 2 recursion, sadly done on paper that's been used for other folding before (hence the horrible wear marks and holes). the pattern also doesn't fit! oops. need bigger paper and more space!
as mentioned in the thread on this photo, I'm doing some groundwork checking out new patterns for a large piece I'm working on. this is a possible contender, as I like the pattern of light that the funky 30 degree inset makes behind the central flowery bit- so it looks like a hexagon, or a really sharp pinwheel. or something. this effect is best seen on the level 1 recursion (as linked above).
I had also considered adding additional length to the space between the "flower" segments, with the expectation of finding a way to graft in an additional set of twists using hexagonal symmetry in the empty spaces. Might still do that, but it uses up an awful lot of space, and I'll have to spend 2 or 3 hours just precreasing the paper to try it out. I'm not a big fan of the precreasing work- if I had a machine to do it, I'd have so many designs that they'd be bursting out the door of my office.
but all efforts to build a machine to effectively precrease the paper have failed so far, requiring the need for a precisely milled sheet of aluminum and some rolling presses, neither of which I have on hand. some other day!
twist w/ offset edges, study, reverse, backlit, recursion level 2
some work photos of a new pattern, part of a folding study. this is the level 2 recursion, sadly done on paper that's been used for other folding before (hence the horrible wear marks and holes). the pattern also doesn't fit! oops. need bigger paper and more space!
as mentioned in the thread on this photo, I'm doing some groundwork checking out new patterns for a large piece I'm working on. this is a possible contender, as I like the pattern of light that the funky 30 degree inset makes behind the central flowery bit- so it looks like a hexagon, or a really sharp pinwheel. or something. this effect is best seen on the level 1 recursion (as linked above).
I had also considered adding additional length to the space between the "flower" segments, with the expectation of finding a way to graft in an additional set of twists using hexagonal symmetry in the empty spaces. Might still do that, but it uses up an awful lot of space, and I'll have to spend 2 or 3 hours just precreasing the paper to try it out. I'm not a big fan of the precreasing work- if I had a machine to do it, I'd have so many designs that they'd be bursting out the door of my office.
but all efforts to build a machine to effectively precrease the paper have failed so far, requiring the need for a precisely milled sheet of aluminum and some rolling presses, neither of which I have on hand. some other day!