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This is one of those tessellations that was conceived of one way and then when I had finished folding it, I decided that the I liked the back side more.
Even with a lot of planning and visualizing, you can't always picture exactly how the finished design will look; particularly when it's back lit.
So, sometimes what you thought you wanted as the front side turns out to be less impressive than what you had imagined for the back side.
Although, I do have to say, I am somewhat partial to the rhombus triads that feature in the second photo. While the center point was my starting inspiration, those sets of rhombuses also played a big part in how I conceived of and create this tessellation.
In the crease pattern which follows, the blue lines indicate fold in the opposite direction.
Essentially, the design is trapezoids around small offset hexagons which are connected to each other by the aforementioned rhombus triads.
This tessellation combines twist elements and tucks, but oddly for me, no flagstone folds. It's a little bit difficult, but on the lower end of difficult.
Filed under: September 2026 Origami Tessellations