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Rifts in the Space-Time Continuum

My first official tessellation post of 2025. This difficult tessellation is a little bit over the top. I kind of tried to see how many triangles I could squeeze together in conjunction with some small hexagonal twists. Every shape is extremely close to the others.  It's not a particularly beautiful tessellation , but I was compelled to do it simply to see if I could get everything to work.  I'm a fan of three triangles tucked into each other and this tessellation is a reflection of that. I would've liked to get all the triangle points tucked more neatly into their partners, but they just kept popping up again every time I tried.  Perhaps if I had utilized a different type of paper I might've been able to do that. But I chose thin paper because it works well with such a dense array of triangle twists. If the paper had been thicker, I'm not sure I'd have been able to flatten everything as well as I did.  The backside is pretty interesting too.  I think that I hav...