Chasing the Impossible Tessellation

Chasing the Impossible Tessellation

This is a crazy one. I don't really remember how I arrived at this particular pattern. Most likely, I was just messing around with a small experimental grid to see what caught my eye. 

I guess that I was feeling especially bold at the time I landed on this idea. This ia definitely an advanced origami tessellation. 

Some of the shapes in this one are almost impossibly small. At least, for the size of paper that I normally use. Which in this case was standard 8..5 x 11 inch printer paper. I figured tant paper would be too thick to let me make such teeny tiny folds. And also, that it would be too thick to allow for all the overlap that was required. For the most part, that worked out to be true. 

Of course, the converse of that is, such thin paper stresses easily and doesn't stand up well to too much fussing and cajoling. 

Anyhow, it turned out mostly successful. Could've been neater, but considering how tricky it was, I'll call it a win just that I was able to finish it. 

Back view Chasing the Impossible Origami Tess

 I had originally plotted it out slightly differently than I wound up folding it. 

First, I had it like this. 

Alternate Crease Pattern Chasing the Impossible

 Then I changed it a little to this. 


Crease pattern for Chasing the Impossible

While the second crease pattern is how I folded it, I decided not to take it to the edges and just went with a singular repeat pattern. Because, honestly, I don't think I could've completed it had I tried to do more repeats. 

Filed under: August 2025 Origami Tessellations
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