Star Spread Origami Tessellation : Origami Tessellations

Star Spread Origami Tessellation

This tessellation is the result of repeating as closely as is possible the classic dual hexagon collapse. You have the smallest hexagon and then the next largest concentrically.

The small hex is a valley fold and the larger on is a mountain. You collapse the large one on top of the smaller one and flatten. It's a pretty standard origami maneuver. In this case I just repeated it as often as possible on a single sheet of paper.

It's very similar to the spread hex tessellation.

In the middle I squashed the flaps that formed from the collapse.

You wind up with a lot of overlapping pleats that you can arrange as you see fit. Or you can do some more squashes. They can also be turned into triangle squashes.

The other side gives off a nice star effect as seen in the third image.

To create the crease pattern simply layout the concentric collapses in offset rows with one pleat between each repetition. All of the folds, except for the squashed on the central star, conform to a standard triangle grid.

If you laid this design out a little further apart between repetitions you could probably get more apparent star iterations.

But this close together they overrun each a lot.

You could however, experiment with the placement of more pleat squashes or triangle squashes.

There are many patterns to be culled from how you arrange the pleat overlaps, if you have the patience to arrange them more meticulously than I have.

Comments

Infinite Triangles Origami Tessellation

This is just a flash idea I had. There was no planning involved. No inspiration. I just started folding and followed the lure of the creases in the paper. Upon seeing the finished result, It kind of reminds me of Robin Scholz's Triphilia tessellation, but the construction is definitely different and I was not thinking of that as I was crafting it. The similarity is that you can arrange the layering of the triangles into different patterns of your choice. I went looking and discovered I had folded this a few years ago and called it Triangle Temptations . I didn't realize this until after I'd completed this model. Apparently, according to my original post, I'd seen someone else fold it on flickr and recreated it. This happens sometimes. You hit on an idea and it's something you've done and forgotten. They linger in the back of your brain and come forward unexpectedly. That previous version differed from this one slightly, in that it used double sized cross g

Micro Rhombus Stars Origami Tessellation

This tessellation is micro rhombus star twists. I'm pretty sure I've seen this done with larger size rhombuses, but not with ones this size. They are the smallest natural rhombuses of the triangle grid. The center is achieved by collapsing a small hexagon. On the other side there are small hex twists and open back triangle twists. Since the shapes are rather small, it's a little bit difficult to fold. It's probably more of a cool weather tessellation. Humidity does the paper no favors on such small designs. But the ideas come when they do. Reverse view and crease pattern images follow.

What If Caviar Could Talk Variant

This origami tessellation is a variant of one by Arseniy K. He named his 'What If Caviar Could Talk'. After I had solved his design, I decided that I wasn't up to reproducing it exactly as he had folded his. Perhaps another time, in the future. So I changed things up a little to make it slightly less difficult. Both designs have a foundation of open back hex twists with triangle twists around them, He used micro rhombuses between the repeats. In my case, I used larger natural rhombuses instead. Still a difficult fold to execute, but much less so. It still required thick paper. I used tant folded into a 32 pleat triangle grid. You can see from the photo of the reverse side how densely packed everything is. It's a few layers deep. So be prepared to wrestle with that. My crease pattern for this iteration is included at the end. To fold his, sub out small natural rhombuses in place of my larger ones.

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