For the Love of Triangle Twists : Origami Tessellations

For the Love of Triangle Twists

This is another tessellation where I saw a photo online and made the effort to figure out how to recreate it. I don't know the source to credit. But when I first saw the picture I thought it was brilliant in its simple elegance.

I totally complicated the process of figuring out the construction. I added way more triangle twists than were necessary.

Eventually I realized that I was making it harder than it actually was.

There are a lot of triangle twists, but when I took a step back I realized where each belonged and how they made sense in the whole.

It's an interesting composition in that it's centered around triangle twists. I usually start tesses I'm creating around hex twists and work from there. This one is all triangle based.

I really like this pattern. All props to whoever originally came up with it. It's simple, but complex. Which is the true earmark of a great origami tessellation.

In the photo of the rear of the tessellation you can see the large triangle twists that connect the 'blades' that appear on the front.

There are also small triangle twists at the center of each repetition.

They are not essential to the fold. Pleat folds can be utilized. But they do make for an easier flat fold and a more fluid end result.

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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