Devil's Advocates Origami Tess
This is a weird one as far as original tessellations go. I was playing around with collapsing hexagons. Once you do the initial collapse, you can then create a series of six hexagons tucked into each other around the center. Pretty standard stuff.
But this gives you a whole lot of corners that you can use to create triangle twists.
I folded two triangles on two sides opposite each other and then I folded them back on themselves. I did the same thing again to the other two corners right next to the first set and folded them back on the themselves as well. That's how I created the pairs of rhombuses. You can even see the rhombuses in the diagram below. Nestled between each set of four triangle twists.
The remaining two corners per molecule can also become twists (as seen at the center). Or you can just tuck them under. Or you can stand them up like I tried to do on the outskirts. My paper didn't really want to salute.
It's not that impressive to look at, but it's a pretty interesting way to manipulate some fairly typical folds.
It might look better had I used fancier paper. I thought thinner paper would work in my favor in this case. There were a lot of twists and I don't like thick paper for twists. Your experience may differ.
My diagram to fold this tessellation is below. Look carefully at it and you can see the long hex shapes that surround the inner collapse. That's where I get all the corners to do the twists.




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