Close Knit Teardrops : Origami Tessellations

Close Knit Teardrops

Everything feels like chaos right now. It's a scary time to be alive. We all deal with that in our own ways. One of the ways I deal is with origami. When immersed in folding everything else about the world and myself falls away. There is only the paper and my desire to coax it into the shapes that make it art.

I've done a few tessellations that are what I refer to as faux flagstones. They have patterns similar to flagstones, but they are folded along the natural structure of a triangle grid and don't require any special manipulations on the reverse side.

I'm sure this techniques has been explored before now, but it's relatively new to me.

This tessellation is a teardrop shaped example of that. I believe I saw a photo on google of Ben Parker creating the same design. So I just sought to reproduce it.

These types of designs are fairly easy to fold and great for those looking to better understand tessellations as a whole.

A short while back, I did one using the really small rhombuses of the triangle grid and am confident there are more patterns to be harvested from that technique.

I look forward to exploring that in the future provided that our society doesn't completely collapse.

Keep folding all.

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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