Curved Origami Sculpture

So what happens when you fold in curves.

Curved origami sculpture. We give here a partial history focusing on the earliest known references. History of curved origami sculpture erik demaine and martin demaine croatian translation there is a surprisingly old history to curved crease sculpture going back to the 1920s at the bauhaus. It not only contains crease patterns but the insights of how you can design such models yourself.

Some tessellations are entirely flat some are 3 dimensional. This activity uses a craft knife. These equilibria are poorly understood especially for curved creases.

Here are some examples of curved folded read more. One vietnamese artist previously here and here on bored panda has loved paper folding ever since he was just a boy. This thesis by ting uei lee systematically explored the design and utilisation of elastically bent curved crease origami.

Curved crease sculpture by erik demaine and martin demaine. When folded along curved creases paper shapes itself into a natural equilibrium form. There are many kinds of origami tessellations.

The paper you choose for this project can have a big impact on the look and effect your. 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. Only some of the tessellations are made in the way that they don t have a single straight line in their crease pattern.

Most of us are probably familiar with the geometric type of origami however only a few know that this paper art can also be produced with curved paper forms using a difficult art technique known as wet folding. Tools of the trade. To make the basic curved fold shape you must first draw or score and cut out a.

Make curved fold origami sculptures step 1. This is a fragment of his book 3d origami art which is the best material published about curved folding so far. Curved origami sculptures using a wet folding technique by hoang tien quyet.

This 3d sculpting technique requires a lot of patience and skill so there are not a lot of artists who have mastered it.