This is a really cool tessellation that I created . It's trapezoid based tirangle shapes connected by offset small hexagons with alternating small triangle twists around them.  Inspired by a previous tessellation I had created called 'Twister' I set out to create a new one that utilized the same trapezoid triangles in a new way. This is the result.  When I had finished mapping it out, I wasn't entirely sure if it would work. It seemed logical, but some of the gaps were unfamiliar to me in the context of flagstone style tess . Which is essentially what this is.  I guess, technically it's a hybrid of flagstone and classic twists. It's intriguing to think about what other hyrbid folds might be out there waiting to be found.  At any rate, it looked promising. So I forged ahead.  Relatively certain, but not 100% sure. Turns out it works beautifully. A lessson to trust your experience.  This is a difficult tesssellation , but it's also a fun one. The way th...

This is an unusual tessellation that I recently designed . It's a dense collapse of various shapes that is based off a an open back hexagon with small right triangles around its edges. From there it just gets even weirder. I collapse some teardrop shapes around the center and add triangle twists. In order to repeat the pattern I used some oblong rectangle type shapes. It's all very unorthodox, but it does work.  It was an interesting exercise in how tightly shapes can be manipulated.  I would label it as a difficult tessellation to fold. It's full of strange shapes and troublesome overlaps.  I used thin paper because I knew that everything was very close together and I figured that would make it more feasible to execute the many overlaps. Which it did. However, it also made it hard to keep the smaller shapes as neat as I would've liked.  Would this work better with thicker paper? Maybe. Probably.  You can see my center is slightly askew because one of the smal...

 This is a rather simple tessellation that I recently dreamt up. Open back hexagons with triangle twists a few pleats away. Nothing terribly interesting there. But then I add some six sided pyramids and triangles twisting off of their short sides.  It kind of reminds me of the fold where triangles are twisted on an offset small hexagon. Like in this tessellation , just to name one. But it is different for sure.  The back side of this tessellation is pretty humble as well. Basically just repeating trapezoids connected by triangles.  I have a crease pattern. Need to take a photo of it. Will hopefully upload it soon.  * name of the tessellatino is from the Tool song 'Third Eye'.  Added crease pattern.

 If you're a fan of rhombuses, like I am, you'll be interested in this tessellation. It layers standard rhombuses and longer parallelogram style rhombuses around open back hexagon twists.  It's not too difficult. Intermediate level for sure. The trickiest part is just making sure that you crease the folds for the parallelograms correctly. Those 1.5 pleat creases can be a little elusive. Especially if you don't use them often.  The intersections where three parallelograms meet can be a little finnicky. There's only a small natural triangle joining them.  Other than that, it's smooth folding all the way.  Crease pattern is below. 

 While working on coming up with new tessellations using a pyramid of rhombuses like I did in my Pythagora's Tessellation , I came up with this one.  I was quite pleased with myself at having found this one. It's pretty neat how the rhombus stars and the rhombus pyramids are each a part of the other. So, I mapped it all out and dutifully folded it.  It was only after I was all finished that I happened to look in an old folder of mine and found an image I'd saved that was essentially the same design.  I had downloaded the picture a very long time ago, so I don't recall where I got it or to whom it belongs. There was no signature on the image itself.  The tessellation in the old picture didn't really do repeats. Whereas I take it all the way to the edge.  If I had to guess, I'd say it was probably a Peter Keller. It looks like something he might've done.  So, this tessellation of mine is unintentionally, both a quasi solve and a quasi original.  A...

 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...