About

Nikhil Patel is 2nd-year studying Computational & Applied Math. He has been doing origami on-and-off since elementary school, and thanks to UChicagOrigami, he has found a wonderful community of fellow origamists in college. What he loves about origami is how paradoxially simple yet complex it is; you can make basically any shape you want, no matter how intricate, yet it always comes from a humble square of paper (or rectangle if you’re willing to engage in some light blasphemy).

Nikhil has thought of origami equally as an art form and as a way to relax and decompress, meaning that, especially in the past year, he has focused a lot on modular and tesselation-based models that are complex but repetitive. Lately, he has been designing his own simple tesselations, which are represented here in his showcase exhibit. With these models, he hopes to show the process by which he designs tesselations since several of them are either born from simple experiments or are derivatives of each other.