Origami Tessellation: Any Way the Wind Blows

Anyway the Wind Blows Tessellation
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 I've been attempting to expand my creativity in regards to my original origami tessellations. While I find it pretty easy to design new flagstone and collapse based tessellations, I do not so easily conceive of fully twist based ideas. 

Many of my ideas incorporate multiple techniques including twists. But exclusively twist based tessellations do not come as easily. So I have been experimenting with that. Trying to expand my repertoire. 

I've solved many twist based tessellations designed by other artists. This provides a good foundation. 

Reverse View Anyway the Wind Blows Origami Tess
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So, recently, I've created a few new models that are all twists. They're a little simpler than my usual modus operandi. Anyway the Wind Blows is an easy tessellation, but I figure if I hone that skill, I can soon expand to more complicated ideas with them as well. 

Some of it, I think, is just the nature of how a person thinks and perceives things. You can't alter who you are. If I see the paper in how the shapes collapse rather than how they twist, that's just who I am as an artist. 

However, knowledge and learning plays a profound role as well. Nature vs. nurture is a factor here as much as it is in other aspects of life.  

And I want to see, how well nurture can influence my creative process to move beyond what already comes naturally to me. 

I still need to take a picture of my crease pattern for this. Will hopefully add it here soon. Until I do, you might want to see if you can reverse engineer this tessellation on your own. That's always a lot of fun. 

Crease pattern added.

Crease Pattern for Any Way the Wind Blows Origami Tessellation
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Filed under: September 2024 Origami Tessellations. 

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