Bumpy Tesselation - is it new?

aesthetistician · December 10th, 2007, 11:50 am

I was fooling around, as you do, and came up with this:

A few image searches didn't turn up anything that looked similar, so I wondered - is this kind of 3-d tesselation common? And does it have a name?

Jonnycakes · Post by **Jonnycakes** » December 10th, 2007, 9:50 pm

I may be wrong as it is just a pic, but that looks like a complex use of 3d box-pleating techniques. Like the kind used to make Mooser's train or implement cubes (waterbombs) into a model (like Hojyo's Thunder God). I have done something similar, but not quite the same-I only had individual cubes popping up, not complex raised patterns. Looks really cool and well folded though.

Brimstone · Post by **Brimstone** » December 10th, 2007, 11:24 pm

Other people might have come up with similar stuff, but yours is very original. It reminds me of the stretch wall by Momotami

aesthetistician · December 12th, 2007, 12:33 am

Jonnycakes, I don't think it's box-pleated, though I've never actually done box-pleating, so perhaps I just didn't realise that's what it was! It's actually fairly simple to do, but kind of hard to describe...I could try making a video of the step if anyone was interested?

Brimstone, that wall is gorgeous!

DZIGGITAI · Post by **DZIGGITAI** » December 27th, 2007, 2:31 am

that strongly reminds me of a model of a marble maze in one of the Origami USA convention booklets, though it might only vaguely be similar

Jonnycakes · Post by **Jonnycakes** » December 27th, 2007, 4:34 am

Boxpleating is anything that uses only horizontal and 45 degree angle folds. This doesn't include shaping/detail folds, so I guess there is some leeway in what is boxpleated and what isn't.

aesthetistician · Post by **aesthetistician** » January 12th, 2008, 1:56 am

Then I guess it is box-pleated

There's a very bad sort of CP at http://aesthetistician.livejournal.com, if anyone is interested.

ahudson · Post by **ahudson** » January 12th, 2008, 7:06 am

I don't recognize it, although it's possible it could have been folded before I started folding tessellations. It doesn't look like the kind of stuff people were doing back then though, so I think it may well be an original work. It looks very nice, I'm going to put it on my list of models to reverse-engineer one of these days.

About that boxpleating terminology, though: generally, tessellations aren't referred to as being "boxpleated" unless they actually use that technique to form flaps, as I've done a few times (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahudson/1987841667/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahudson/2053348782/. For models like this we say that they're on a square grid (or a 90 degree grid).