The very first inspiration, which I got, is butterfly’s wings. When the butterfly fly，it need to wave its wings. So If every steps of wing’s movement has been tracked ，then a beautiful pattern has been taken on. And I wanted to record the path of the butterfly’s wing when it fly. So that means I need a large amount of same patterns, Rather than cut it one by one, I tend to to cut it just once. Therefore，laser cutting is a good choice . Because I tried laser cutting before and know how it works. Then I bought a books got 20 blank pages, I was going cut the book directly then spread out each pages.

Also I think my work is very similar to Noriko Amber s works. her work is primarily created by cutting precise holes in books, magazines and other varieties of bound paper. these cuts result in artwork which resembles topographic maps. some of the pieces are sculptural, keeping the original book form, while others are more like relief sculptures. in the first sight of her workfs，i think it is a laser cut or CNC, but the most interesting thing about this work, that it is a free hand cut paper.

And Noriko Ambe comments on his work, this is my life work. I individually cut single sheets of paper by free-hand and stack them together. The work consists of positive or negative shapes. I am trying to embody relationships among humans, time and nature.”

first step that I begun to create this work is draw a butterfly’s wings, then I use illustrator to trace that drawing and save as‘illustrator’then I brought to school and cut it. Because the material is paper so it haven’t took long time. Last time I used plastic ，it spent 2 hour to finished .

when I spread each pages out. It looked like that. It is exactly what I expected.

Next step, I need to do the digital model by rhino. Firstly I inserted the drawing that I made as background, and traced it using the line tool. Then i turned the lines to surface. Finally used the array to created the final form. And I changed the color to translucent .

Front view

right view

top view

   

  when I finished these process by making that piece of work，I almost experienced everything that I experienced last term. Such as using rhino，illustrator，laser cutting. But not only knew how to using these tools，but also investigated how pattern can be used in 3d work and tried different materials. And played around and make something different.

custom pattern-flow along curbe( rhino notes)

Draw a control point  curve
OFFSET on both sides

Activate CONTROL POINTS ON- if there is many points on the curve and makes it confusing select REBUILD and adjust the number of the points to less.

Connect the end points of the side curves to the ends of the middle curve.

Move the points of the middle curve along z axis to create a third dimension.

use INTERPOLATE CURVES to connect all the main lines with smaller lines.

BEND curves to create desired form.

CURVE NETWORK to connect all the curves as one surface.

CREATE A UV CURVE- the area of the form will be represented in a square.

Create any shape that will produce the module of the texture desired- i.e CIRCLE or other shape-manipulate the shape by moving the control points.

EXTRUDE shape downwards

Create CURVE through points to create an arc between the end points of the shape.

SPLIT the base of the module in half so it can be ready to loft

LOFT half of the module so it becomes an enclosed surface. Select TIGHT loft on the display box, Loft creates a surface between enclosed curves.

LOFT the other half.

SCALE if desired to make the module bigger or smaller

ARRAY to produce multiple modules and adjust their number on x axis to control their density

COPY the row and play with the position of each row.

ARRAY again along the y axis until the modules fill the area of the square.

Select FLOW ALONG SURFACE to translate the module pattern on the initial form.

Folding Techniques for Designers by Paul Jackson

it is a concept book on folding, not a  typical instructional book on origami models.
As the book progresses, each chapter delves further into a folding topic in greater detail. In the case chapter on ‘Basic Pleats’, Paul dissected the topic and classified them into ‘Accordion’, ‘Knife’, ‘Box’ and ‘Incremental’ pleats, with each sub-category clearly illustrated through step-by-step drawing sequence, gridded crease pattern diagrams and photographs. 

a fascinating chapter challenges the origami technique by simply forming a piece of paper with no crease or just one crease by inducing a curvature on the sheet. The result is simplicity. 

One of the chapters called ‘Spans and Parabolas’ is a take on folds which result in structural forms resembling architectural roof spans as shown below.

About the author:

Paul Jackson has been a professional paper folder and paper artist since 1982 and is the author of 30 books on paper arts and crafts. He has taught the techniques of folding on more than 150 university-level design courses in the UK, Germany, Belgium, the US, Canada and Israel. These include courses in Architecture, Graphic Design, Fashion Design, Textile Design, Jewellery, Product Design, Packaging, Ceramics, Industrial Design, Fine Art, Basic Design and Interior Design. He has also taught many workshops in museums, arts centers and festivals and has worked as a folding consultant for companies such as Nike and Siemens. 

Exercise in class

today's class we has been divided in to groups, and been given 3 pice of folding pattern.

In the end we used the outcomes to create an envelope to wrap around a bottle

    although the folding way is obvious, it give me the inspiration of  how using the sheet of paper in 3d form exoression. not just by paper, and also other materials .

RESEARCH- How designers use patterning techniques in their work.

Patterns are always widely used in different territories of art, artists and designers use different material to product the outcomes.
Such as “Noriko Ambe” ,she  is an artist who draws/cuts on paper, atlas and sketch book which has many layers. The works are named Linear-Actions to express the time and space.
she expressed a new concept by cutting the pre-existing patterns and information in books so as to alter them.

Another example，Chris Bosse is a German-born architect, resident in Sydney in Australia. He was a key designer of the Beijing National Aquatics Centre that was built for the 2008 Summer Olympics. Educated in Germany and Switzerland, he worked with several high-profile European architects before moving to Sydney.

Chris Bosse's Digital Origami
“Inspired by the geometrical order of a snowflake and the aerodynamics of a Formula 1 racing car, the tower encapsulates speed, fluid dynamics, future technology and natural patterns of organization”.

LAVA’s DIGITAL ORIGAMI TIGERS are currently traveling the world as part of the WWF year of the tiger campaign

Sandra Backlund, a designer who turns knitted clothing into a piece of art. Mostly famous for her three-dimensional collage knitting perhaps it would be more appropriate to define her as a sculptor rather than a fashion designer. Her desire to discover different materials and techniques as well as her passion for quality and tradition make Sandra’s clothes one of a kind. Her artistic skills transform knitwear to unique fascinating fashion items.

folding

An ancient Japanese proverb says: "If you meet a person that is able to make many items of different shape by folding up simple sheets of paper, don't think it is trivial, but try to learn.

before the next class, I need to fold or cut 5 A4size paper in different way in order to let them stand individual .But without glue 
At first, I tried to find out some ideas from internet. There are so many methods