The Lab

This is an area for my experiments! Everything is under development and nothing is ever finished.

Fujimoto Approximator

The Fujimoto approximation technique can be used to fold a piece of paper into any odd number of units. This utility shows how you can use this technique in your own practical origami projects. You can also use it to experiment with the Fujimoto approximation technique to gain an insight of how it works.

Grid Maker

This doesn't do much: it just makes square or triangular grids and allows you to save them in SVG format. It's usefull for tessellation experiments when you need a 9x9 or 11x11 grid and you can't be bothered to work out the grid locations by hand. It's also handy for diagramming, as you can load the results straight into Inkscape.

The Hydrangulator

I created this script after the origami convention in Swansea. It's a graphical tool that allows you to generate Fujimoto Hydrangea patterns on the screen, so if you want to see what a twenty level hydrangea would look like, without having to fold one of paper a metre wide, this is for you. It will also produce snazzy templates that you can use to fold hydrangeas with different coloured levels, and it includes some links to the appropriate instructions to help you create them.

The Tessellector

I created this script as a test bed for my web development work. I wanted to learn how to manipulate canvas objects on the page, and it seemed like a fun idea to try generating some polygon patterns that I could print out at fold. I later expanded it to generate the patterns in SVG format and to download these patterns so that they could be loaded into Inkscape for additional editing. It's a bit quirky and you do have to tweak the settings in order to produce the best results, but it's still an interesting tool.

Division by binary fraction calculator

This is a simple tool that uses the principle of binary fractions to calculate divisions. You can use it to find an approximate way of dividing paper into any number of units you like.