Category: fold
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Folding game table
For holiday related reasons, I wanted a gaming table that could be put on top of the dining table, but folded away when not in use. I enjoy origami, and a challenge, so I aimed to make one that would fold small enough to be stored up and inside the table’s frame. Some thought went…
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crushing it -curved folding of cylinders
This year I plan to plant 100 acorns. This requires a similar number of plant pots and I’m sure I don’t have enough. Not to worry, grab a beer can, roll a meter or so of paper around the end of it and fold the bottom of the tube up along a curved crease or…
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Colloquy exhibition review
The just closed exhibition at The Flourish, Cardiff Bay comes as a Welsh-Canadian collaboration exploring ‘creative narratives in metal’. Metals can be ductile, shiny, stamped, woven and stretched. They are, quite literally, flexible, and difficult enough to work with that art and manufacturing intersect. I’m looking at these not as an art gallery, but a…
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Leaves and creases Pt2
I’ve written before on Leaves and creases (and I’ve just improved the post a bit), but today, on a hot day, I’m thinking about banana leaves and folding. My previous post discussed different surfaces created by the ribs and how they are used for stiffness. This lovely paper showed that typical hierarchical leaf vein patterns…
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Curved Creased Origami
I love curved creased origami and will be writing more about it over time, albiet mostly with an eye towards architecture scale work. Today I just want to highlight the work of Fynn Jackson. An example of what he can do below. All of his designs can be bought from here: and he has a…
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Crease surfaces in leaves Pt1
In this post we’ll look at three different leaves and the strategies they have developed to build large stiff(ish) cantilever surfaces for the purpose of solar energy capture. A nettle leaf. The leaf is ‘flat’ at large scale, but the areas between veins are larger in area than the pure plan, causing doming between the…
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Estimating curved crease solutions using collapsing floor plates
A little playing around this morning, using the free trial version of #limitstateslab‘s plastic yield line theory to generate crease and ruling meshes for curved creases. Two examples attached, one for Badger’s 1/4 circle energy method approach and one for Omar Kaddourah‘s kangaroo modelling of the Bhooshan 3 way node (which requires the mesh to be known…
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CURVED CREASED BRACELETS
These were made using my curved crease bending rig. In this case, the simple geometry and symmetry means that the curvature and direction of rulings were easy to guess/enforce.
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