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I need some low intermediate tessellations to start with. Nothing too hard but not something that will bore me to death. THANKS!

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Check http://www.flickr.com/groups/origamites ... 191854496/ Not all of them are that simple but you can get your hands full with what's in there

There are LOTS of tessellation CPs, type in "origami cp" on flickr and you'll get plenty of results, many of them tessellations. However, the tessellation community generally reverse-engineers work instead of using creasepatterns, so if you're looking for a particular model you might be out of luck. That being said, there's a lot of stuff out there, so don't get discouraged.

If you want traditional diagrams, here are the only ones I know of:

http://dev.origami.com/diagram_load.cfm ... andrea.pdf

http://www.flickr.com/photos/57038262@N00/398487776/

Also, Eric Gjerde has published a book on origami tessellations, if you've got some spare money. He diagrammed several models for the book, so check it out. It's available as a pre-order on Amazon, it should be in stores in a month or so.

Not to be mean, but you'll have more luck with google if you spell it correctly... it's "tessellations", not "tessilations"

ahudson wrote:Not to be mean, but you'll have more luck with google if you spell it correctly... it's "tessellations", not "tessilations"

LOL thats why i was never in the spelling bee.

thanks for all the help guys!:)

Sara Adams made a video about how to make a Hydrangea ( by Fujimoto ). It's an excellent tessellation, and it's not too hard. You might want to try that one out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3EcpOSSRs

Wow, that's great instructions. I'll definitely have to try that sometime.

How about Crowding Butterflies by Shuzo Fujimoto:

http://www.spitenet.com/origami/diagrams.shtml

Sara Adams Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUzSHFZFwKM #1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXc0veQG ... re=related


- Hank Simon

Heh, cool to see that my videos got mentioned for this.

I just received "Origami Tessellations" by Eric Gjerde, and it's a really amazing work. I haven't done much tessellations thus far, and I've found the advice given in the book to be really useful. And, yes, I admit, it made me go somewhat into a tessellation mania.

I got the book two days ago, and already folded four of the simple projects: Five and Four, Spread Hexagons, Star Puff, Water bomb

Once I have more practice I might make a video on some tessellation techniques. In any case, if you want to get started with tessellations, this book is the way to go.

-- Sara

Sadarac wrote:...tessellations... not something that will bore me to death.

If boredom is a concern, tessellations are probably not the kind of origami you will enjoy. Almost all of them require extensive precreasing, usually of a square or triangular grid.

edit: meant to say "or" not "of".

Hey! I'm doing my part to keep the square grids alive... While triangle grids might be a little more common, they're by no means the only option. I've been doing tessellations for almost two years now, and I didn't start using triangle grids until a couple weeks ago.

*Edit* but yeah, you're pretty much right. Although square grids are faster...

Crowding Butterflies by Shuzo Fujimoto are very beautiful, I love them for the first look. And video has very high quality, very professional.