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Levels of Origami Tessellation Difficulty
Posted by Madonna Yoder on
It’s hard to know where to start with a goal like “learn to fold origami tessellations” because there are so many different kinds of tessellations at so many different skill levels.
While there’s no limit to the number of possible tessellation designs, the number that are beginner-friendly is relatively small, and they’re not the ones that you’ll see modern tessellation designers posting.
Tessellation Garden - a Living Library of Origami Tessellation Designs
Posted by Madonna Yoder on
Tessellation Garden is a collection of all of my origami tessellation designs, arranged in a portal with sorting by tiling and sorting by twist difficulty and structural complexity.
Siren's Call Origami Tessellation
Posted by Madonna Yoder on
There are some patterns that when I see them, I know I have to fold them.
Usually I keep a queue of about 10 of these patterns, but sometimes one skips to the front of the line.
Siren's Call is one of those.
Crossroads Origami Tessellation
Posted by Madonna Yoder on
The ways that variations can be made are kinda endless.
You can change the spacing, switch a twist to the other side, change a position from closed to open or vice versa.
Or, in some cases, you can stick more twists in between the twists in your tessellation!
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- Tags: advanced, hybrid square, origami, rotated
Dancing Pyramids Origami Tessellation
Posted by Madonna Yoder on
A Whole Lot of 3 Sometimes it can be hard to tell what's 3 and what's 6. Now this may sound confusing - how can you not know the difference between 3 and 6? But when there's 6 things, with alternation between each one, is it 3 or is it 6? In terms of rotational symmetry, the answer is 3. In terms of twists in a loop, the answer is 6. And to make matters worse, you can't look for 3-fold symmetries around the point in question to decide - they're all going to be 3-fold in either case!...