April 22, 2008

Folds

In first reading the blog post and doing the paper folding activity in class, I began to develop a fascination with the transformation of objects from 2D to 3D through folding. This is obviously most apparent in origami, which is part of what I tried to attempt in class. I was able to document my folding by taking pictures of the unfolding of my 'cootie catcher':









I found it interesting that a 2D piece of paper could be transformed into a 3D object just by folding:









The other, by far most interesting transformation comes from within. Seeing eye puzzles are only 2D objects, but only become 3D through the mind. Through concentration and crossing your eyes, a person is able to see a 3D image within this puzzle. I can not grasp how this happens, and how these are made, so for now they remain a true puzzle.

Many of the pictures in the post were intriguing, especially in the pictures of the spheres. How is it that a 2D picture and appear 3D? Is this just a mind trick, or an artistic phenomenon?

1 comments:

forker girl said...

Yes!:
I found it interesting that a 2D piece of paper could be transformed into a 3D object just by folding:

--And so suggestive of dimensionality that could be embedded in seemingly flat, for instances, locations

extreme magnification as a form of folding, a form of exposing extrusions, wrinkles, depressions, rips, tears, twists that are actually part of the smooth terrain when it is more closely examined

so imagine what would be in folds and wrinkles or space/time

and in folds and wrinkles of the brain


As for this 3D phenomenn, the seeing of more dimensions in something known to be a flat plane from which nothing really protrudes, may I introduce you (or reintroduce, if you already know him) to the sidewalk chalk multidimensional realities of sidewalk chalk artist Julian Beever