Paranmaum #origami @origami#origami Michael Komulski's corrugated heart from a hexagonculus, that is, a semi-regular hexagon, as tall as it is wide.

Randlett's flapping bird with most of the paper cut away. Still flaps quite well. #origami @origami

Cigarettes for #devo fans.

A panel from Fletcher Hanks. Apt.

Preparing for a move and so recycling the majority of dead tree books in the house. I now have more bookshelf space than books, a very odd feeling. I think you'd call it catharsis, but one of the books I recycled was the Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, so I just don't know.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gclichtenberg/116410562796218357 Way to subtweet, Georg, sheesh.

Yeah, yeah, Tom, I get it. I get it.

Yes, Nixon was also a creepy, corrupt vice-president, but at least he didn't try to sell the Hungarians to the Russians.

Widening Gyre #origami @origami

Level C of the Frost Library at Amherst College, Mercator projection. You can draw a straight line to any book you wish.

I hear William Barr may be available.

Not so much a mid-life crisis as a Late Bronze Age collapse.

Pretty sure this was Questionable Content, this week. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1121959 #origami #materialscience

Noted with pleasure: https://mymodernmet.com/paper-cranes-naofumi-hama/ #origami #kirigami

It's a clock. #prettywickedcool https://oisinmoran.com/sumertime

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/goran-konjevod-organic-origami-paper-vessels/ #origami @origami

America is waiting for a message of some sort or another

Listening to Raidio na Life out of Dublin and they're playing the Killer's Human in Irish and Welsh. How cool is that? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsQF662dXi8

Saint Patrick's Day equations. #stpatricksday #shamrock #mathart #equation #graph

An old one, but appropriate for the day. #piday

This is just fun. https://github.com/Veirt/weathr

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In Florence, there's a great huge cathedral with an eight-sided dome built by Brunelleschi in 1436. An engineering marvel. This dome is about half the height of the diameter and the dome formed by the mountain folds is supported by a flatter dome of the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#bugfolding #origami https://www.nature.com/articles/s41378-026-01205-4

First #crocus -- still plenty of snow around, but it's melting fast.

You better buy yourself a new pair of shoes And walk for a lifetime on a pace renewed You better buy yourself an electric guitar You better play, there's no other way To beat the blues. I beat 'em. Pete Townshend and about as obscure as he gets. I think the pace renewed bit must be a reference […]

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@GerardWestendorp/116176471259415664 This is excellent and "magician" is exactly the right word.

Not paper, but nevertheless way cool. https://cen.acs.org/physical-chemistry/surface-chemistry/Chemistry-Pictures-Droplet-origami/104/web/2026/03 #chemistry

Published 2008. Rather thin book, as you might imagine. #javascript

Gigli -- not after the flower, but after a variety of pasta which look sort of like a calla lily. A combination of ellipse arc pleating and Goran pleating. #origami @origami

Listening to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio plays and in Fit the Third, the guide mentions Pete Buttigieg several times. Caught my attention -- he wasn't even born in 1979. Checked the text and it's Veet Voojagig. Clearly, an artifact of that new Infinite Improbability Drive.

Blizzard today -- snow and 50 mile an hour winds. So, I put out the Hallowe'en pumpkin, to encourage the squirrels. No takers so far.

Other World Cube, after M.C. Escher, Kodi and Mitsue Husimi. #origami #mcescher

Found the original radio shows of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Hope all you froods know where your towel is. https://www.radioechoes.com/?page=series&genre=OTR-SciFi&series=The%20Hitchhikers%20Guide%20To%20The%20Galaxy ##hhgg

Fire Department Connection

Dome -- this one with ellipse arcs. #origami @origami

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/02/09/dangling-sculptureevacuated-from-russian-frontlinewill-be-focus-of-ukraines-pavilion-at-venice-biennale #origami #ukraine

Woke up this morning -- I had been dreaming of PointCast. (Didn't work any better in the dream than it did in the day.) https://www.wired.com/1997/03/ff-push/

Reading The Microbe Hunters (1926) by Paul de Kruif, a book I loved as a kid. Very different read now. "Of course [Leeuwenhoek] was a groper. He was a groper and a stumbler as all men are gropers, devoid of prescience, and stumblers, finding what they never set out to find."

I always enjoy material science better when it involves the inspiration of animals. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/unsinkable-metal-discovery-could-build-safer-ships-and-harvest-wave-energy/

When I was in high school, I read a Lester del Rey story in an anthology and I was telling my father about it. He remembered reading it in Astounding Science Fiction in 1938. https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v22n04_1938-12/page/n116/mode/1up

Groundpiglet.

Graticuluous! A modular #kirigami model that uses stereographic projections of the quadrangles on a 30° graticule. More than a little graticulous.

Salt shadow

Had this super inexpensive laserjet printer sitting on my desk at work. Haven't touched it since the day they sent us home for COVID. But I need to do some envelopes and dusted it off. Came back to life without any trouble, hardware or soft. Amazing.

This is a strategy graph from the board game, Risk. 1957. The strategy is based on controlling the connections between continents. Notice anything? File:Risk game graph.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3ARisk_game_graph.svg

#greenland for the Greenlanders ! #origami @origami

From Melody magazine, February, 1918. The Auto-Mechanical Music Composer. It was ever thus.