Post 3 – Onwards to Prepare the Experiment!
Melek Y -
Welcome back to the origami journey! After doing some folding practice last week, I actually want to change the design I did previously in my demonstration for two of my origami patterns. The origami flasher utilizes a 7×7 grid, as it needs to have a square in the center for the rotation to work properly, and I decided to change both the Miura-ori and Yoshimura patterns to the same 7×7 grid (the example photos used an 8×8 grid as that was easier to fold). This makes the patterns more consistent with each other as much as possible, where they are put on equal footing.
This week, I am working on preparing all the materials needed for the three trials of each tessellation. Since I want data collection to go smoothly when I do start it, I want to prepare each sheet with the pattern it uses beforehand, so that way I don’t have to spend as much time folding and measuring each paper during the data collection.
Below, I have the picture for all three patterns, with each paper labeled for the trial it belongs to. Each tessellation is folded differently, so even if the lines traced out on the paper look the same, it simply provides the guides on the key points needed to fold the pattern precisely. (Apologies for the blurry picture).
With all of this prepared, next week I will be able to start with data collection! I will go in order of the picture, with Miura first, Flasher second, and Yoshimura third. Each origami pattern will be split up into 1 week, allowing me to space apart the tasks of folding, measuring and recording, and typing up sections of my paper
Here is a view of how the data table looks so far, but its formatting may change in the future when I figure out how to properly incorporate error bounds.
And with that, see you next week for some progress into data!
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