{"id":760,"date":"2009-11-22T19:54:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T00:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zingman.com\/blog\/?p=760"},"modified":"2009-11-22T19:54:34","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T00:54:34","slug":"pentagon-origami-tessellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/22\/pentagon-origami-tessellation\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Origami Tessellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One upside of having all these meeting at work is I can sometimes fold while sitting and listening.  Tessellations are very popular in origami these days, although personally I haven\u2019t done much with them.  But I was hanging out with Eric Gjerde in San Francisco few weeks ago, and I got intrigued with a couple ideas.  Here is a tessellation I came up with that features all pentagons.  It doesn\u2019t use pentagonal symmetry however, the underlying grid is square.  It\u2019s an ancient pattern used in Moorish and Mideastern art and architecture.  But it\u2019s a cool pattern and I a haven\u2019t seen it folded before so I decided to give it try.  I actually just sort of started doodling it in a meeting that was dragging on, and it dragged on long enough that I had a fully folded sheet by the end of it.  People really responded to it, so I decided to make a better one out a nicer paper.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zingman.com\/origami\/oriPics\/tessellations\/pent_tessn02.jpg\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zingman.com\/origami\/oriPics\/tessellations\/pent_tessn02_400.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zingman.com\/origami\/oriPics\/tessellations\/pent_tessn03.jpg\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zingman.com\/origami\/oriPics\/tessellations\/pent_tessn03_400.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One upside of having all these meeting at work is I can sometimes fold while sitting and listening. Tessellations are very popular in origami these days, although personally I haven\u2019t done much with them. But I was hanging out with Eric Gjerde in San Francisco few weeks ago, and I got intrigued with a couple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/22\/pentagon-origami-tessellation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pentagon Origami Tessellation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-origami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}