created by solvingorigamitessellations.com This tessellation reminds me of ones I've solved by Arseniy K because of the way the shapes interact and layer upon each other. This particular tessellation, however, it is an original origami tessellation that was created by me.  Despite being the creator, I found this hard to execute. Everything is on top of each other. It's a difficult task to get it to actually work as envisioned.  It turned out pretty good considering I was kind of learning to fold it as I went. A second attempt would, no doubt, turn out better.  ..read more

created by solvingorigamitessellations.com This is another twist based tessellation that I came up with while actively trying to work on my twist tessellation creation skills.  It's not too complicated, but it's a fairly nifty pattern.  Basically, it's rhombuses and natural triangles around open back hexagons. That then creates 1.5 triangles on the other side. This is the side where the magic of the pattern happens and you get that money shot that makes for a great picture.   created by solvingorigamitessellations.com This is an original tessellatio ..read more

created by solvingorigamitessellations.com  I've been attempting to expand my creativity in regards to my original origami tessellations. While I find it pretty easy to design new flagstone and collapse based tessellations, I do not so easily conceive of fully twist based ideas.  Many of my ideas incorporate multiple techniques including twists. But exclusively twist based tessellations do not come as easily. So I have been experimenting with that. Trying to expand my repertoire.  I've solved many twist based tessellations designed by other artists. This provides a g ..read more

created by solvingorigamitessellations.com  Here's an interesting flagstone tessellation that I recently created. The concept isn't very complicated, but the pattern is pretty cool.  It begins with trapezoids twisting around a small closed hex twist on the reverse side. Then I add more trapezoids connected to the tops of the central ones. But those trapezoids face the opposite direction.  That allows the second set of trapezoids to then repeat the central pattern.  In the remaining gaps you can fit double wide triangles.  Small triangle twists on the back ..read more

Collapsing Vortex by solvingorigamitessellations.com  This tessellation is a variant of my 'Rocket Ships' tess. While Rocket Ships used trapezoids and rhombuses, in this case, I used wider trapezoids which allowed me to use small triangles instead.  Whenever I come up with a general pattern for an original origami tessellation, I  often like to explore the different ways it can be altered using rearrangements and switching out sizes, distances and shapes.  Geometrically speaking, altering the sizes of some shapes directly impacts what other shapes can be paired ..read more

Kaleidoscope Tessellation by solvingorigamitessellations.com  This tessellation is a variant of my 'Wheel of Fortune' tessellation. Kaleidoscope  actually came first. Then I later, decided to try the same idea, but spacing things further apart and that became 'Wheel of Fortune. Kaleidoscope is a dense configuration of small and 1.5 triangle twists all precariously overlapping each other.  On the other side there are open back hex twists and small right triangles.  It's a very tight fold. My paper wasn't really too keen to cooperate, but it was mostly successful ..read more

Flower Tessellation solved by solvingorigamitessellations.com I actually solved this tessellation before I solved her 'Bouquet' tessellation. Both are designed by gatheringfolds. This one is a little simpler. Straight up repeats of the central pattern. In 'Bouquet' it takes that central idea and gets a little more complicated by adding small hex twists.  This one is just the 'house' shapes and some large triangle twists.  I'm pretty sure she called if 'Flower'. Although, I'm not 100% certain.  I can't seem to find the post again on her instagram.  The center wa ..read more

solved and folded by solvingorigamitessellations.com  Another interesting origami tessellation by gatheringfolds. Utilizes an unusual shape. Looks like a house. But in origami/geometric terms it's an open back hexagon with the bottom sliced off. Or you could say it's a rectangle with an isosceles triangle on the top. Whichever way you wish to classify it, it ultimately means new possibilities for origami designs.  The center pattern didn't give me any trouble figuring it out. However, I did get blocked for a bit on how the small hex twists connected to the rest of the patt ..read more

created by solvingorigamitessellations.com  I actually conceived of this tessellation backside first. It was all about the overlapping triangle twists.  This is the less dense version. I also have one that I came up with prior to this that is the same basic concept, but much more tightly packed.  For this one, I changed the spacing from my original idea to make it less intense and this is the result.  Thanks to the altered spacing this version photographs much nicer.  I created simply by combining two different sizes of triangle twists overlapping around ..read more

solvingorigamitessellations.com  This one is a little bit different than my usual. It's got several different shapes all working in conjunction. There are open back hexagons, trapezoids, rhombuses, tall isosceles triangles and natural triangles.  Interestingly, there are no small triangle twists at all. Which is somewhat unusual.  It looked rather complicated when I mapped it out on the grid paper, but it wasn't that big of deal when I actually folded it.  It's an interesting study in how many different geometric shapes can be combined into a single cohesive or ..read more