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How to Fold from a Crease Pattern
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To start folding from crease patterns, we must first decide what part of the pattern to fold - what to put in the center, and how many repeats we want.
Next, we need to actually fold the grid.
Finally, we can start folding!
How to Fold Your First Tessellation
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Managing many pleats at once is one of the harder things about tessellations, but using these three-way intersections one at a time lets us minimize the difficulty and focus on the steps.
These three-way intersections can be put together in a huge variety of ways, from rotational to mirrored to combinations of both.
How to Start with Tessellations
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Many folders would like to start learning tessellations, but aren't sure where to start. In this video I introduced the four major grid types that every tessellation folder needs to know and clarified the distinction between twist-based tessellations, corrugations, and tessellations that require an all-at-once collapse. You see, there are easier and harder ways to fold tessellations and when many folders see a crease pattern for the first time they think that they need to precrease everything and then collapse all at once. That's actually the hardest way to learn tessellations - you have more work at the beginning, more...
How to Play with Twist Blocks
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What are twist blocks? Whenever I look at tessellation crease patterns, I mentally break them up into their component parts. With twist-based tessellations, those parts are twists and they're connected by pleats. The good news is that the same set of twists are used over and over again in different tessellations, which means that we can treat them like building blocks and drag and drop to snap them together! I made a set of digital twist blocks in both square and triangle grid for my Tessellations by Tiles students last fall and found that they really speed up the diagramming...
Triangle-centered grids on hexagons
Posted by Madonna Yoder on
The more I fold grids, the more I realize that the possibilities are endless.
For example, I used to think that triangle grids on hexagons could only be centered on grid intersections - that I had to start by folding the hexagon in half in one way or another.
Origami Tessellation Terms and Definitions
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While you may already be familiar with origami terms like mountain and valley folds, sinks, squashes, swivels, and rabbit ears, tessellations have a vocabulary of their own. Unfortunately, the vocabulary of tessellations is not standardized across all tessellation designers and each tessellation book uses different definitions - and different colors and symbols for their diagrams. This can make it hard to learn, since everyone is saying things in different ways. I try to stick to consistent definitions throughout my teaching, and to explain my terms in plain English - no math speak. Here's my list of the most important terms to...
Rotated Grids Challenge Winner
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The challenge winner is Dirk Eisner!
Rotated Grids Challenge
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Here is my challenge to you: fold a tessellation on an appropriately rotated grid and post a photo before May 12th for a chance to win a unique mini suncatcher, folded and framed by me!
Rotating Grids in Squares and Hexagons
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You don’t have a laser cutter or Cricut scorer, but you still want to make stunning tessellations without guessing and iterating over and over. The good news is that there’s a fairly simple solution - rotated grids!
Open Compound Square Twist Tutorial
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Origami twists are very versatile - often, a technique that applies to one twist can apply to them all. Follow along with my video as I show you how to compound a twist!
The only thing you need to know to fold any odd division grid
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What if I told you that you don’t need to look up how to fold even thirds, or even fifths, or even 17ths ever again? Like you, I used to spend a lot of time looking up how to fold thirds every time I wanted to fold a 48-fold grid. No more.
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