Reverse and Fold of Triangle Triads by GatheringFolds : Origami Tessellations

Reverse and Fold of Triangle Triads by GatheringFolds

Figuring out how to fold other people's designs is usually a fun endeavor.

Depending on the complexity and the photos available, it can either be a delightful diversion or it can be a maddening exercise.

But, I've learned so much taking on those challenges.

And it feels so good to solve the tough ones.

I did struggle a little figuring this particular design by gatheringfolds.

It actually wasn't until I had a related idea of my own that I finally hit upon the solution.

It's a unique design in that the front and the back are essentially the same. That's what tripped me up the most. I was wondering what the reverse side looked like, not realizing that it looked the same.

It's small offset hexagons. The triangle twists directly off of them alternate from front to back. But instead of a straight repeat, their repetitions are connected by open back triangle twists.

Not too insanely tricky to execute, but not that easy either.

Another thing I sometimes find a bit of a challenge is which way people twist their hexagons.

I instinctively twist my small hexes clockwise.

For this design she twisted counter-clockwise.

So I had to go in what felt like the wrong direction.

I don't come across this often. But when it happens, I often wonder, does everyone have a natural way they twist?

I always twist small hexagons clockwise given the choice.

Yet open back hexes I always twist counter-clockwise by default.

Triangle twists, I go both ways.

Which way do you naturally fold your twists?

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

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What If Caviar Could Talk Variant

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