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I'm trying to fold Mélisande*'s CP: http://www.flickr.com/photos/melisande- ... 971315517/ for the Pochette without the need to print the CP every time I wish to fold it. I was wondering if anyone knew of a method to divide a hexagon into thirds.

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This is the only thing I can think of and I don't know if there is a better one.

Left Picture:
Step 1: Fold in half making a vertical crease. Unfold
Step 2: Fold top point downwards, aligning the top point on the crease made in Step 1 and connecting the two points of the hexagon on top part. (This should form the triangle on top). Unfold
Step 3: Repeat beneath.

Right Picture:
Step 4: Align the most right edge (edge of the paper) with the crease made in Step 2. This should give you a 45 degree angle. Unfold.
Step 5: Now fold the right edge (same edge as Step 4) to the intersection of the crease made in Step 4 and Step 3. (These are surrounded by the blue circles). Unfold.
Step 6: Connect the two points surrounded by the two brown circles. The intersection with the crease made in Step 4 should give a Third. (black circle)

Step 7 (Not Shown in picture): If you align the crease made in Step 3 with the Point found in Step 6 you divide the remaining 2/3 into 1/3.

The main idea is to find a square-like shape in the hexagon since I know how to divide a square into thirds.

I hope this helps!

Thanks, FlareglooM! Actually, right after I had posted this I realized an extremely simple method to achieving the foldes and references I needed.



On the CP, the lines are folded from red to yellow in ROYGBV order. On the left, I realized that if you fold all half creases and folded the corners (the small blue boxes) to meet the creases, it gives you one third of the edge, then from the third I have, fold the edge (orange crease) to the third, I can achieve the reference needed to create the yellow crease.

On the right, I used the beginning of method 1 to achieve the third, then folding the bottom corner up to meet the crease (small blues boxes) I get the crease for the body of the Pochette (orange crease).

I hope this will help anyone else who encounters the same problem.

Let's keep it simple, folks!



Fold corners to the center (red creases), their intersection is one sixth.

Melisande, while on the topic of Hexagonal folds and Valentine's day, I want to reverse-engineer your Happy Valentine on Flickr and I was wondering if, though it starts from a circle, has a hexagonal base.

This one?

Yes, it's based on a hexagon.

Okay, thank you so much for the explaination for the divisions, by the way