Playing Chess Origami Tessellation

Playing Chess Tessellation

 This is a simpler tessellation. For when you're feeling like something a little less intense. Or for when it's rainy outside and the paper is feeling especially flimsy. This will do very nicely. 

It's a pattern of small and large triangle collapses as well as rhombus collapses. 

If you examine the reverse side, it's not quite as easy as it appears. There are a miltitude of very small folds required, but even as small as they are, they're not too hard to pull off. 

There no need for a crease pattern for this tessellation. The front view reveals all the shapes rquired and exactly how they connec to one another. 

I used regular printer paper folded into a 32 pleat triangle grid. It worked fine. While thicker paper may make the execution easier, a tessellation such as this one really benefits from the translucency of thin paper when you go to take the finished photo. 

Back view Playing Chess Tess


When I looked at the finished tessellation it reminded me of the old paper chess game that used to appear in Sunday newspapers. That's how I came up with the name. 


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