Lotus Tessellation
Lotus Tessellation, designed by me. You can fold any number of these lotus on the same piece of paper without cuts or glue. Instructions are available.
Gallery
Prototype lotus tessellation folded on notebook paper. Kinda like this design, might document it. Also the lotus itself eats up 10x10 amount of paper, and the lotus is only 2x2, meaning there's an average of 25 layers of paper stacked up on the lotus.
Page 1 of the folding instructions
Page 2 of the folding instructions
Metadata
This was something I wanted to design for a while. I didn't use any origami design techniques to design this (I really wanna learn tho), this design mostly popped out through trial and error.
Links
Instructions PDF
Code
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# https://github.com/Kozea/CairoSVG/issues/200
import cairocffi
from cairosvg.parser import Tree
from cairosvg.surface import PDFSurface
class RecordingPDFSurface(PDFSurface):
surface_class = cairocffi.RecordingSurface
def _create_surface(self, width, height):
cairo_surface = cairocffi.RecordingSurface(cairocffi.CONTENT_COLOR_ALPHA, (0, 0, width, height))
return cairo_surface, width, height
def convert_list(urls, write_to, dpi=72):
surface = cairocffi.PDFSurface(write_to, 1, 1)
context = cairocffi.Context(surface)
for url in urls:
image_surface = RecordingPDFSurface(Tree(url=url), None, dpi)
surface.set_size(image_surface.width, image_surface.height)
context.set_source_surface(image_surface.cairo, 0, 0)
context.paint()
surface.show_page()
surface.finish()
convert_list(['final-page1.svg', 'final-page2.svg'], 'final.pdf')