Madonna Yoder’s Advent of Tessellations is back for a third year of folding fun. Also called tiling, tessellation is the process of covering a surface using geometric shapes with no overlapping. The ...

Instructions for folding Madonna Yoder’s Dancing Ribbons tessellation. Download the pattern for Dancing Ribbons here. Yoder recommends printing the pattern on paper in between normal printer paper and ...

Perhaps you’ve marveled at someone taking a piece of paper and folding it to produce the shape of a bird or flower. That general practice served as Madonna Yoder’s introduction to origami. “It started ...

The suitability of the Miura-ori for engineering deployable or foldable structures is due to its high degree of symmetry embodied in its periodicity, and four important geometric properties: it can be ...