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Easy beginner tessellation patterns11/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Modern Cat quilt patterns Pins & Paws Cat Quilt Tutorial 1.11 Knickknacks & Kitty Cats quilt pattern.1.7 Salem mini quilt patterns with cats.1.6 Stairway To Cat Heaven – quilt with cats.Let me know if you want me to review that book for you. And lots, tons of extensive design theory without much practical folding aspects. It’s huge, heavy, full of precise math and fine art. Then you should ask me to write a review on Robert Lang’s recent origami tessellation book. The model is called Twister C (shifted no spacing) and is on page 124. I don’t fold other people’s models recently, but could not resist this very original design by Ilan Garibi. I would say that David Huffman with Ron Resch (who is mentioned) were pioneering a featured kind of origami tessellations. My only nitpick would be… I would love to see some short cultural reference to David Huffman. I see many people folding some of the models from the book, even though the crease patterns or videos ( like bricks or adulthood) were out there for some time already. But I think the book sets it in the way you’ll want to fold it (maybe one more time). Couple of models are well known and published (like Ron Resch waterbomb tessellation) or by Ilan himself. I like 3-d models way, way more than flat ones. Including Ilan Garibi’s origami-inspried designs adds very nice flavour to the book. These techniques are easy and fun to play with for a beginning origami designer. The techniques I am talking about include things like spacing(grafting), mirroring and shifting of the origami molecules. I mean there are more complicated ways to design origami tessellations, but they are far less fun. So if you ever wondered, how origami tessellations are designed, this is how usually. He does that in intuitive beginner-designer friendly way with a lot of practice and with little theory. Ilan has really nice explanation of how you can alter origami tessellation design to get a new model out of it. For advanced origami tessellation folders and designers Side note: When people ask me to write a book about origami tessellations I always question if they think about how they are going to repeat some of my designs… It is theoretically repeatable, but it may require either some equipment or hours of precise template pre-scoring. ![]() And you can fold grid from practically any size paper. In that sense grid based models are very foldable, as only thing you need – the grid. If you take paper bigger than A4 or letter size (which is usually the case for tessellations) you need a big printer or plotter. Some freeform origami tessellations or curved fold tessellations require at least a printer to be able to pre-score them. By special equipment I mean things like printers, plotters, laser or vinyl cutters. This means they are all foldable without any special equipment. Most of the models in the book are based on square grid and some of them on triangular. But the explanations are really beginner-friendly imo. Effort is needed in origami □ especially in tessellations. I would say it should reduce beginner frustration, as many-molecule projects are very tempting but very easy to mess up, in case you lack practical experience.Ībove said does not mean that one cansuddenly achieve spectacular results without effort. I also like the way he organised the material in folding the single molecule first, then proceeding with small practice piece and only then going to a huge project. Some sequences of folding tessellations are really faster and cleaner than the others and Ilan discusses that too. There are some other things about tessellations that you can either learn quickly from this book, or spend lot’s of time till the enlightenment hits you. But in practice there is a huge difference and some tricks to ensure that you fold is as precise as you can. Theoretically there’s no difference in which order you fold the grid. I remember my own frustration when I could not fold grids properly. This origami book has lots of nice introductory stuff that is kinda obvious to experienced folders to the point they never take time to discuss that with the beginners. I have to admit that the name of the book is really cool and reflecting its spirit. However some of the books, are not for everyone. There are several origami tessellation books out there. – this was the short version, so if you are already convinced to buy it, read no further □ I am really happy to recommend you the new origami tessellationbook by Ilan Garibi. ![]()
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