Wheels Origami Tessellation : Origami Tessellations

Wheels Origami Tessellation

This is a tessellation I attempted to recreate that I had found somewhere on the Internet. You can find lots of them, but many lack crease patterns or instructions on how to fold.

That's become a fun new aspect of my origami habit. Trying to figure out how to recreate tesses from their folded pics.

I really like how this one looks when I take the photo with back light, but no flash. This technique really brings out the structure of the folds. Giving a 3-D appearance to otherwise flat designs.

This is a flagstone of large open back hexagon twists on one side connected by their surrounding triangle twists on the other side.

The second photo shows the reverse side of the same design.

The third photo is a very basic crease pattern I created on a smaller piece of paper with a much smaller grid. It's simple, but should be quite helpful to those familiar with this form of origami.

That's generally how I suss out the larger designs. Figure it on a smaller scale and then adapt it to the larger landscape.

The final photo is the image I found on the Internet which inspired the reconstruction. I know they look like they've different tessellations. But they are the same. It's just the back light, paper type and the photography that differ.

If you're interested in attempting to fold this, it was relatively simple.

It is quite helpful to make sure that you fold the hexes on one side and the triangles on the opposite. It makes it that much easier to collapse the final design.

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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