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Dreamcatchers Origami Tessellation

 This is an interesting little tessellation that I came up with rather quickly. Funny thing that I discovered about it after I'd plotted it out, is that it's pretty much the inverse of a tessellation by gatheringfold called 'Emergent Triangles' .  Her tessellation is rhombuses around large hexagons and then small offset hexagonal twists with alternating rhombus and triangle twists.  This tessellation is open back hexagons with triangle twists around them. Then it's alternating rhombus and triangle twists around a small offset hexagon.  Similar, yet different.  I wasn't thinking about her design when I was coming up with this one, although, I'm sure it was somewhere in the corners of my subconscious.  An interesting fold any way you look at it.  The reverse side almost looks like a flagstone with its endless arrays of interconnected triangle twists. A stunning pattern in its own right.  My crease pattern is included below.  During my mapp...