Fractal Origami
The octahedra are then arranged and placed side by side in a pyramidal shape tetrahedron halving the format of the starting sheet gradually and then the edge of the octahedron.
Fractal origami. A fabulous new book and dvd to share with you on one of my absolute favorite subjects. Master basic skills and techniques easily through. I designed this last year and i found it interesting so i made this tutorial.
Since fractals are all about repetitive forms and the japanese art of origami is all about repetitive folds it s only natural that the two disciplines meet up to form a paper menger sponge the first 3 dimensional fractal ever discovered. As the name suggests this concentric star design can be repeated forever or at least until the paper becomes too small to work with. Yes that s right believe it or not some folks have so much time to spare while rendering fractals they resort to even more inventive ways to spend their precious fractaltime.
Intro music downloaded from freesound from user dobroide. After being fascinated by ray robin and rui s recent work with fractals i was inspired to create a fractal design of my own. Modules designed by their respective authors.
Modular origami fractals ifs models folded and photographed by michał kosmulski. Check out this tutorial on how to fold a fractal geometric from origami 101. After treating the students to a fractal zoom loads available on youtube we looked at the koch snowflake in more detail discussing its structure and how it grew i then projected the instructions for folding the equilateral triangle i used this resource from arbelos.
Strictly speaking the sierpinski 3d fractal is not a modular origami model because the octahedra are not joined together but simply sit on top of each other. It is complicated and time consuming though so you need have enough experience in origami before trying to making. Alternatively this excellent meimaths presentation shows it step by step and let the students figure it out by themselves.
Mar 15 2019 yippie. Click on images to enlarge them.