Whirlpools Origami Tessellation : Origami Tessellations

Whirlpools Origami Tessellation

This is a twist based origami tessellation. I kinda just came up with this one because I wanted to do something with alternating rhombus and triangle twists that was a little different than ones I and others had already done.

It may have been done before, but it was new to me as I was creating it. So, I'll call it an original tessellation because that is how it came to me.

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It features open back hexagons with triangle twists off of them. Then there is a layer of larger natural hexagons with alternating rhombus and triangle twists. It's at that point that the two layers of the pattern can be repeated.

This is an intermediate level tessellation. Not too terribly difficult to fold if you have the crease pattern. No doubt, slightly trickier if you take it upon yourself to reverse engineer it. Though, even then, it's not that hard.

I folded it using ordinary printer paper trimmed to a hexagon and creased into a 32 pleat triangle grid.

My crease pattern is included below. There are the edges of some other diagrams in the top and bottom corners of the image. They are not a part of this design.