Curved Crease Origami
The first known reference of curved crease origami is from a student s work at the bauhaus taking a preliminary course in paper study by josef albers in 1927 1928 win69 p.
Curved crease origami. Most origami both practical and mathematical uses just straight creases. They are developable but with regions of non zero principal curvature a combination of attributes have seen them adopted for numerous novel engineering applications. This method ignores the fine grain details of strain distribution in a sheet by lumping deformations into truss bars bending hinges and folding hinges.
Make curved fold origami sculptures. In the 1970 s however the great pioneer of computational origami dr david huffman began to investigate the possibilities of curved creases. Albers later taught the model formed from creasing a circular piece of.
David huffman s approach to. Crease pattern adapted from the paper reconstructing david huffman s origami tessellations. A simple curved crease origami form can be obtained from an extruded shell using the mirror reflection method which truncates and reflects the shell about an intersecting cutting plane as shown in fig.
For many curved crease origami finite elements takes too long and might not reach a fully folded state. Here i will be showing you how to fold simple yet elegant origami sculptures using curved creases. The principal challenge considered here is to understand what 3d forms result as natural resting.
I was inspired to try this myself when i saw a ceramic bowl with wavy rippled edges that i thought would. While the first curved crease models date back to the bauhaus in the 1930s curved creasing remains relatively underexplored. An alternative to high fidelity modeling is bar and hinge modeling.
Designed by david huffman. Curved crease origami differs from prismatic or straight crease origami in that the folded surface of the pattern is bent during the folding process. The material is a thin foil wrapping paper with self adhesive laminate on both si.
This was achieved by developing a set of curved crease patterns with consideration of the interaction between material elastic bending energy behaviours and origami developability constraints. More info about huffman s curved crease folding can be found in the paper reconstructing david huffman s legacy in curved crease folding and the thesis computational design with curved creases. Curved creases on the other hand offer a wealth of new design possibilities.
This thesis by ting uei lee systematically explored the design and utilisation of elastically bent curved crease origami. If the inverted shell segment is assumed to possess the same curvature as the original shell the 3d curved crease origami form is both.
