Stars Formed by Hexes Tessellation : Origami Tessellations

Stars Formed by Hexes Tessellation

It's time for a new origami tessellation.

This time I've folded someone else's design. I found the original image somewhere on flickr and did a reverse engineer on it.

It's a beautiful design that's actually quite easy to execute. I have a pic at the bottom of this post of my crease pattern notes that I used to recreate it.

It's larger hexes that are manipulated to form negative space stars at their centers.

Further proof that some of the simplest designs produce the most stunning results.

Basically, you lay out the central star as triangle points off of a small hex. Then you arrange the large hexes in a circle around it. Triangles naturally form in between.

You kind of waterbomb the triangles and then fold over the corners of the hexes to create the stars.

Rinse and repeat as needed. It's very simple to tessellate as the triangles begin to form additional large hexes radiating out from the center.

There's no need to figure out how additional iteration will occur. They form naturally off of the central design.

The large hexes are on the standard folds of the triangle grid. They are not classic open back hex twist which are offset from a classic triangle grid.

The waterbomb triangles that connect them are all on the natural folds of the grid as well.

You trisect the triangles to to create the inner folds to collapse them. Those folds are new. The folds to make the corners of the hexes overlaps to form the stars are also new.

The backside of the tessellation forms a really interesting pattern too. It winds up looking like circles with tiny triangle squashes all around.

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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