Follow along my multi-year journey in achieving pieced origami tessellations using laser cutting. From concept to final product, we will discuss the challenges I experienced:
• determining the final project size
• learning to make laser cut files
• paper size and the challenges it brings
• paper type and the final look
• helper creases: yay or nay
• precision, precision, precision
• strategies for clean overlapping
• bringing it all together
There will be no specific hands-on instruction. No folding experience is required; however, I will be discussing technological topics to include vector drawing, file types, laser technology, paper types, and some material science. It will be useful to have basic experience with drawing programs and vocabulary for using computers.
No supplies required.