Worked out another Arseniy K origami creation that I managed to decipher and execute. It wasn't too hard since he had uploaded both a front and back photo to his instagram. Knowing what the reverse side should look like makes it so much easier.  It's kind of a close knit fold, so I was apprehensive I would have trouble with the actual folding of it.  But it's been cold and dry here lately, so the paper was pretty resilient.  All in all, it worked out pretty easily. Relatively speaking.  He didn't post backlit photos, but I think it backlights really beautifully. That's my opinion anyway.  I don't know how he consistently comes up with so many original ideas. It's very impressive.  Another pic and, spoiler alert, a crease pattern follow.  If you want to figure it out on your own without any hints, don't scroll too far down. 

  I kinda came up with this design by accident. Not really sure how I arrived at this configuration. The paper sort of led me more than me leading it. I'm still wondering which is the front and which is the back of this tessellation. I guess it's just a matter of individual perspective.  It's a somewhat congested arrangement, but it definitely works as a flat fold.  It's based off of open back hex twists that have some teardrop shapes radiating from them.  For the repeat they transition into offset pyramidal shapes.  There's also a crease pattern at the bottom for those that want it. It seemed really interesting as I was coming up with it. Make of that what you will. 

 This is an update to my post from September about a really interesting tessellation that I struggled to execute properly.  The fold was by OrigamiYonca. The design was by Arseniy K.  While the mechanics of it came rather easily, the folding of it escaped me.  My first attempt with printer paper failed. My second attempt was moderately successful, but I realized I couldn't upload a pic because of what was printed on the paper and an NDA.  I tried again with different paper and no joy.  Switched back to regular paper and easily folded a single module version.  Still, I felt I had to complete the more challenging fold.  I used larger paper. Almost twice the size. Sadly, the paper was not as sturdy as I had hoped.  The tessellation was finally completed, but it was rough, to say the least.  I learned that I do not enjoy using large paper for tessellations. My hands and fingers are simply too small for the task.  Nevertheless, I  felt that I had more than met the challenge. Satisfied,

 This is a straight up reverse engineer of a model I saw on Instagram. The fold was by origamitraces. The design was by origami.by.e I believe the title was multiple wreaths.  Theirs was arranged a little differently. I used a 32 pleat square grid and went to the effort to center mine so all the margins were even.  I don't do a lot of square grid tessellations. They feel much simpler than the hexagonal sort.  But I'm quite pleased with this one. I was able to execute it using some neon paper I'd selected specifically for tessellating.  I wasn't sure the paper would do what I was hoping it would, but was pleasantly surprised.  Figuring it out was pretty straight forward.  Collapsing it was pleasantly easy.  There's nothing more satisfying than a simple tessellation that yields a complex result. This is a prime example of that. 

I saw a similar fold to this one on flickr and it reminded me of a tessellation I created some years ago. That one used the same shapes as this, but at half the size. It didn't come out that great as it was a small and tightly packed fold. So I had intended to revisit it someday. This one is a larger proportioned version of that. Thanks to the larger shapes it is much easier to execute neatly, but it still has a decent repeat on a 32 pleat grid.  The original idea used small hex twists. This one uses open back hex twists.  Very poorly drawn crease pattern included below. 

This is another tessellation out of Migeul Ganan's 'Twist and Tess' book.  I used his main module as the central point, but I arranged everything much closer together.  I mostly work with a 32 pleat triangle grid, so it's essential to keep things close if you want any repetition.  The back sides of his triangle twist based tesses are really quite interesting. I love how they back light. They are pretty fuss free folds. Just a matter of folding the triangle twists in a certain configuration.  The nice thing about an all triangle twist based tessellation is that you don't need to pre-crease. You can just fold them on the fly.  They come together quickly and you have a really nice finished product. 

 This tessellation is comprised of rectangles twisted around large hexagons. On the reverse side there are some possible triangles. I opted not to flatten them.  I toyed with the flattening, but wasn't into it.  I think not flattening it rendered a nicer finished product.  For some reason I have a particular penchant for using rectangles in origami tessellations. I couldn't say why. 

 Was fiddling around with a triangle twist as the central point. Added some arms to that. Then just repeated.  I quite like the look of the larger triangle shape.  I considered having them not overlap, but ultimately was curious to see how this configuration would play out in the end.  Designs like this always keep me interested because you can arrange the overlaps in different ways to come up with numerous variations.  Generally speaking, it's a pretty basic pattern, but I find it interesting all the same.