Reverse Engineer Barnacles Tessellation

 

Solving Barnacles Tessellations
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It's been a little while since I've solved someone else's tessellation. So, I've worked on a few of those. 

This first one is 'Barnacles' by gatheringfolds. 

I kind of have a love/hate relationship with reverse engineering tessellations. It's fascinating, frustrating, and fulfilling. 

This one in particular, gave me no trouble at all. As it shouldn't. It's not anything very tricky. Just some trapezoids around hexagons with a some open back triangles in the mix. 

Back View Barnacles Origami Tessellation
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I reverse engineer a lot of her tessellations because she always comes up with ideas very different from anything I would probably think up. She's a master of twist based designs. While I am pretty skilled with flagstones and collapse based tessellations, my twist skills could use some work. And the best way to improve is to learn from those who are more advanced.

I also reverse engineered another tessellations of hers just recently. I think she called it 'Bouquet'. That one was a good deal more difficult to figure out. But that is a post for another day.  

My diagram is pretty primitive, but it gets the point across. 


Diagram for Barnacles Tessellation
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