Comments on: How to Make a Heptagon from a Circle http://origami.oschene.com/archives/2006/10/01/how-to-make-a-heptagon-from-a-circle/ A Folder's Intermittent Weblog Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:21:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: zografis http://origami.oschene.com/archives/2006/10/01/how-to-make-a-heptagon-from-a-circle/comment-page-1/#comment-4159 zografis Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:55:13 +0000 http://origami.oschene.com/2006/10/01/how-to-make-a-heptagon-from-a-circle/#comment-4159 You ROCK -- I'm not using it for origamy, but for another type of art project . . . but this it the best heptagon on the web!!! and I LOVE the 7-pointed twist star and it is giving me an awesmoe creative kick just looking at it. Thank you SO much!!!!! You ROCK — I’m not using it for origamy, but for another type of art project . . . but this it the best heptagon on the web!!! and I LOVE the 7-pointed twist star and it is giving me an awesmoe creative kick just looking at it. Thank you SO much!!!!!

]]> By: oschene http://origami.oschene.com/archives/2006/10/01/how-to-make-a-heptagon-from-a-circle/comment-page-1/#comment-4121 oschene Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:14:21 +0000 http://origami.oschene.com/2006/10/01/how-to-make-a-heptagon-from-a-circle/#comment-4121 Indeed, sir, I can do anything I like. It <i>is</i> a heptagon -- what it <i>isn't</i> is totally accurate and the blog entry says so. It is, however, accurate enough for most applications. Try one and see. Indeed, sir, I can do anything I like.

It is a heptagon — what it isn’t is totally accurate and the blog entry says so. It is, however, accurate enough for most applications. Try one and see.

]]> By: Paul http://origami.oschene.com/archives/2006/10/01/how-to-make-a-heptagon-from-a-circle/comment-page-1/#comment-4120 Paul Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:01:16 +0000 http://origami.oschene.com/2006/10/01/how-to-make-a-heptagon-from-a-circle/#comment-4120 you can't do a heptagon like that. it's wrong.. it't not a heptagon.. you can’t do a heptagon like that. it’s wrong.. it’t not a heptagon..

]]> By: oschene http://origami.oschene.com/archives/2006/10/01/how-to-make-a-heptagon-from-a-circle/comment-page-1/#comment-336 oschene Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:08:28 +0000 http://origami.oschene.com/2006/10/01/how-to-make-a-heptagon-from-a-circle/#comment-336 A pretty bathroom floor is not to be despised, Christine. Whereas, several of my high school and college instructors should be. My high school geometry teacher found my fascination with origami and polyhedra laughable. I see from his web page that he now uses both to teach with. Rosemary, I don't have any books so far - much study is a weariness of the flesh. Though my friend, Eric, is having such a good time writing one that I'm giving the matter some thought. I will be diagramming a similar and simpler model this weekend, maybe, and this should get you started on the Frangipani box. It's been pointed out to me, it's not an easy model. A pretty bathroom floor is not to be despised, Christine. Whereas, several of my high school and college instructors should be. My high school geometry teacher found my fascination with origami and polyhedra laughable. I see from his web page that he now uses both to teach with.

Rosemary, I don’t have any books so far – much study is a weariness of the flesh. Though my friend, Eric, is having such a good time writing one that I’m giving the matter some thought. I will be diagramming a similar and simpler model this weekend, maybe, and this should get you started on the Frangipani box. It’s been pointed out to me, it’s not an easy model.

]]> By: Rosemary Browne / Canada http://origami.oschene.com/archives/2006/10/01/how-to-make-a-heptagon-from-a-circle/comment-page-1/#comment-332 Rosemary Browne / Canada Mon, 13 Nov 2006 01:12:19 +0000 http://origami.oschene.com/2006/10/01/how-to-make-a-heptagon-from-a-circle/#comment-332 Hello Phillip! I stumbled across your site today. In a word: WOW!!!! I love your motto: It is not origami until it is shared. Have you a book, particularily on boxes? I would like to attempt the Frangipani Box. Could you lend a little dialogue to get me going? Tnak you in advance for writing back. Rosemary Hello Phillip!

I stumbled across your site today. In a word: WOW!!!! I love your motto: It is not origami until it is shared. Have you a book, particularily on boxes? I would like to attempt the Frangipani Box. Could you lend a little dialogue to get me going?

Tnak you in advance for writing back.

Rosemary

]]> By: christine http://origami.oschene.com/archives/2006/10/01/how-to-make-a-heptagon-from-a-circle/comment-page-1/#comment-327 christine Sun, 29 Oct 2006 02:10:04 +0000 http://origami.oschene.com/2006/10/01/how-to-make-a-heptagon-from-a-circle/#comment-327 Sickness. This has brought back a high school science fair project that brought me no distinction, but much disdain "Tiling a Plane With a Septagon and Polygons." My project was exploratory and I created a whole bunch of tilings from septagons and polygons obtained from connecting the vertices and cutting out various shapes. Dang it I was a geek. No good answer to the question/statement "This project has no purpose does it?" My answer "If nothing else it would make a pretty bathroom floor." Judges were clearly not interior designers. Sickness. This has brought back a high school science fair project that brought me no distinction, but much disdain “Tiling a Plane With a Septagon and Polygons.” My project was exploratory and I created a whole bunch of tilings from septagons and polygons obtained from connecting the vertices and cutting out various shapes. Dang it I was a geek. No good answer to the question/statement “This project has no purpose does it?” My answer “If nothing else it would make a pretty bathroom floor.” Judges were clearly not interior designers.

]]> By: oschene http://origami.oschene.com/archives/2006/10/01/how-to-make-a-heptagon-from-a-circle/comment-page-1/#comment-326 oschene Sat, 21 Oct 2006 18:10:09 +0000 http://origami.oschene.com/2006/10/01/how-to-make-a-heptagon-from-a-circle/#comment-326 Ah, I thought you might be back - did you have a good time? From what I can read, Vitruvius left a list of proportions that the human body supposedly met, rule-of-thumb stuff you still hear in art classes. The heptagon fascinated people because it was so hard to construct, I think. There's some nice reading on the subject <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/math5.geometry/syllabus.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> Ah, I thought you might be back – did you have a good time?

From what I can read, Vitruvius left a list of proportions that the human body supposedly met, rule-of-thumb stuff you still hear in art classes. The heptagon fascinated people because it was so hard to construct, I think.

There’s some nice reading on the subject here

]]> By: Mélisande http://origami.oschene.com/archives/2006/10/01/how-to-make-a-heptagon-from-a-circle/comment-page-1/#comment-325 Mélisande Sat, 21 Oct 2006 17:10:16 +0000 http://origami.oschene.com/2006/10/01/how-to-make-a-heptagon-from-a-circle/#comment-325 At the Uffizi museum in Firenze there is a special exhibition about Leonardo da Vinci. I saw there a small video on the famous drawing of the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.universalleonardo.org/work.php?id=448" rel="nofollow"> vitruvian man</a> in which they said the distance between the feet was the edge of a heptagon. But it wasn't explained why. I wonder if your construction of heptagon, or the methods you read in the Sacred Geometry book, have some similarities with this drawing ? At the Uffizi museum in Firenze there is a special exhibition about Leonardo da Vinci. I saw there a small video on the famous drawing of the vitruvian man in which they said the distance between the feet was the edge of a heptagon. But it wasn’t explained why.

I wonder if your construction of heptagon, or the methods you read in the Sacred Geometry book, have some similarities with this drawing ?

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