3D Cube Origami Tess : Origami Tessellations

3D Cube Origami Tess

This is another tess that I found online. I believe I found it somewhere on flickr. So... someone else's concept. They didn't provide a crease pattern or instructions.

At first, I was overcomplicating it. Then I tried drawing out the pattern, including the shadow effects. That's when it became clear to me.

Arranging the hexagons as they did in a 3D cube pattern has quite an impressive effect. But, the folding of the design, is actually quite basic.

There's really only one technique involved beyond the usual triangle grid.

The last image shows a rudimentary crease pattern. It's simply large hexes all connected by triangles. To fold the design you perform a sort of waterbomb fold on each triangle. That enables you to flatten the hexes. The lines in the triangles that surround the central hexagon illustrate how to fold them. You squeeze together the outer edges of the triangles in mountain folds collapsing along those inner vertexes as valleys.

If you lay out your hexes in a diamond shape, you get the 3D square pattern that's shown in the design.

The first image shows the front back lit. Second is the rear. Third is front unlit.

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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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