Tessellation Open Back Hexes Both Sides : Origami Tessellations

Tessellation Open Back Hexes Both Sides

This is an idea I had. It's pretty simple, but yields a complex result.

What I like best about it is that it's versatile. You can create several different tessellations from this one crease pattern.

It's open back hexes connected by triangles. The triangles actually follow the folds of the classic grid.

I have a sketch that I need to upload. (Update: crease pattern image added below)

The hexes alternate directions. Some are exclusively on the back. Some totally on the front. Others go both ways.

The triangles are all 2 mountain and 1 valley.

What's most interesting about this tessellation is that it offers the folder choices. You can arrange the hexes in in many variations from front to back.

I haven't explored it in great detail, but I did play around with the arrangements a little bit. It's pretty versatile.

Different patterns emerge depending on how to decide your valleys and mountains.

There's a flow to the mountains and valleys of the hexes and the triangles. It's symbiotic. They do have to work together in certain ways.

But there are several different patterns that can be achieved. Maybe more. This is just one of them.

Here is a simple single module illustration of the collapse.

In the bottom right corner, the right side of that triangle is a valley. It doesn't look that way, but it is.

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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