Origami Tessellations: Awe-Inspiring Geometric Designs (AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series)

Bought this book some time ago and even though I love looking through it I can hardly do any of the folds it instructs. It is really much harder than it makes out. The instructions are not as good as he author might think they are. Sorry. Even the simple and basic folds require some level of concentration, time, repetition understanding that my patience is unable to accommodate. Still I am not dead yet will continue trying as the months and years slip by.

Great book, very well done.....daunting when you start your first tessellation....it drive you well to succeed..

Wonderful book. I am learning every day and having a lot of fun. Indeed need a lot of patience and practice before having the first nice result... few hours spent to wonder ??? how can I make this. but the draft patterns are very helpful and slowly things are becoming clear... and clearer.I am moving in the various design more and more eager to reach the advanced work... not yet there though.Thanks again for sharing your knowledge and a lot of fun and satisfaction to all the new comers to this work.

If, like me, you've been wanting to get into origami tessellations but haven't had much idea about how to get started beyond a few tutorials and the odd web site here and there, Eric Gjerde's new book is just the thing to get you started on the road to mastery.The first chapter outlines the essential skills and techniques required to create origami tessellations. Even although the techniques are well explained and illustrated with stylish diagrams and clear photos, it must be said that the learning curve involved in creating tessellations is fairly steep.There are quite a few things to be mastered before you can even begin to attempt making a tessellation, so if you're a beginner (even if you're an otherwise very experienced origamist), be warned that you may have to spend a few hours practising before you've picked up the necessary skills. It's time consuming rather than terribly difficult.The author himself notes that with tessellations being such a `hands on' craft, you will need to work through the basics until you reach an `Aha' moment and everything becomes clear.And let's not forget the precreasing - most tessellations in the book are made out of precreased grids of squares or triangles, often as many as 32 or 64. I found I could precrease a 32x32 square grid on a 20cm piece of paper without much effort, but doing 64 would be exceptionally difficult, if not impossible. Larger paper, say at least 40cm square, is probably better for most of the included projects. Learning to precrease a triangular grid is significantly more difficult than making a square grid. So be warned this is not a book for those who lack patience. That's not the fault of the author - it's simply that time and patience is required to make tessellations. However, they're so beautiful that it's well worth persevering.There are 25 projects included in the book, divided into beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels. They all look good and will certainly inspire you to begin creating your own designs once you've worked through them. Crease patterns and fairly detailed instructions and lots of photos are included for all models. Gjerde is very enthusiastic about his work and that comes across clearly in the text.All things considered, this is a very good book and as far as I'm aware is the only book dealing with origami tessellations on the market at the moment. The price (£20.99) is quite high for what you get, but considering that it deals with a niche topic in a niche hobby you can't really complain. I'm happy to own this book and if you have an interest in tessellations I'm sure you will be too.

This is an very nice book for people interested in learning about using origami to form two-dimensional tilings. It has a general introduction, followed by a description of the basic techniques, three sections on beginner, intermediate, and advanced projects, and it ends with a gallery of state-of-the-art pieces. It is a joy just to browse through the book, and look at the beautiful photos. The weak point of the book are the instructions. The basic techniques are often a puzzle. For some reason the author has not used the normal origami symbols to indicates how to make the folds. Instead there are three-dimensional figures that are not very clear and the crease patterns are sometimes simply wrong. The instructions for the projects, but instead of giving each steps a number, steps are grouped in a way that makes little sense to me. However, these things should not stop you from buying a good book on a fascinating form of origami.

I can't do better than refer you to the reviews on the back cover of the book.Anyone with a little patience can produce a great result.Buy it.