Winter Wonderland Origami Tessellation

Winter Wonderland Origami Tessellation Front
Winter Wonderland Tessellation by solvingorigamitessellations.com

 This is an interesting original tessellation that relies on collapsing hexagons. That is how the micro rhombus stars are formed. 

From there I added both triangle and rhombus twists. 

This is a semi 3-D fold. It's mostly flat, but the connection between the repetitions have a 3-D curve joining them. 

I decided to use green paper just to change things up. It's regular printer paper in a 32 pleat triangle grid. 

Back View Winter Wonderland Tess
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I realized as I was in the midst of mapping it out on my triangle gridded paper that it could be a fully flat fold if  I had just mirrored the shapes as each iteration progressed outward. 

But at that point, I'd already committed to the original idea. So I went with it. 

Update: I was scrolling through some similar tessellations and realized that Minty Flowers by Arseniy K is the flat fold of this. I already solved and folded it a while ago and had simply forgotten. I do a lot of tessellations. 

I'm partial to fully flattened tessellations. 

But there are many incredible origami tessellations that do not fold flat. 

In some cases, like with Joel Cooper's 3-D masks, they are some of the most difficult and complex tessellations currently out there. 

I'm not really a 3-D thinker. However, in this case, it was only a minor aspect of the tessellation and it worked out quite well. 

I will probably fold the flat version next. Just to see if it turns out better. 

It's a difficult tessellation simply because of the small shapes it uses. However, if you're experienced with working with them, it shouldn't be too daunting. 

My diagram is floating around somewhere. Will add it soon. 

Crease pattern for Winter Wonderland Tessellation
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Filed under: November 2024  Tessellations
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