The Origami Forum

This used to be "My First Tessellation" thread, but I've decided to rename it and use it as my gallery thread rather than making a new thread since it already has a bunch of my stuff in it.

I was playing with pleats that intersect at right angles and I found that the intersection can form a cube quite nicely.
I'm going to use this discovery to make a tessellation.

Here's a photo of the cube construction that inspired me:


And the crease pattern:



Now I just need to get some larger paper and fold multiple sets of them in the one sheet...

Cool. You should take a look at this blog:

http://foldingsnow.blogspot.com/

There are some good tesselations using this block as a unit, plus info on folding other units too. Have fun!

La tour Eiffel is folded by this system too, isn't it?

This is such a coincedence! I did the exact same thing today WoW!

Hehe, looks like I'm re-inventing the wheel.

Please keep rolling

I've never had the patience to fold the Eiffel Tower, but I was satisfied with folding your cube.

Thanks,

- Hank Simon

I'm glad you enjoyed it, Hank.

Today I folded a 4-unit version. from a square of copy paper 21x21cm.
The previous orange one was from 10x10cm paper, so the cubes are just about the same size in this one.

Because of the way I've chosen to tile the units, the 4-unit version comes from a 15x15 grid, so I sort of cheated a little by folding a 16x16 grid and then cutting off the last row and column.
My excuse is that it's just too hard to fold grids that aren't powers of 2.

Here's the photo.


I'll upload the CP soon.

I have noticed that it is possible to constuct the cubes right next to each other, without spacing in the middle.

Yes, it is possible to construct them next to each other, but I like having alleys between the buildings.

Anyway, here's the CP for the 4-unit version. (Click for larger view)

I was fiddling around tesselating something quite similar the other day. I think i like yours better though, mine was stacking those cubes on top of one another each smaller than the last. good work!

Don't apologize for cutting the paper to size. That's how the old masters did it with The Last Waltz and Mooser's Train....

- Hank Simon

Yeah, I guess it isn't really a sin to cut the paper if the result is still a square.
It's just that the No-Cuts rule is very ingrained in my mind.
I was reading an origami book the other day and there was a method for making non power of two grids, but I found it a bit difficult to do with precision.

I guess my next step will be to make a 32x32 grid to make 16 cubes. That will be a lot of fiddly folding. Easy enough to make the crease pattern though.
I'll make and post the CP and then I'll fold it when I get time.

I wonder if a triangular or hexagonal prism could be made with a triangular grid?y? Or maybe, for the prisms, hexagons and rectangles with the triangles in between being the paper in between the faces? Not really a tesselation person, but the idea of three-dimensionalizing like that sounds pretty cool.

Yes, it's all been done before. This guy (Natan Lopez) works extensively with this style: http://www.flickr.com/photos/origamiz/

Wow, he has really gone into a lot of depth in this technique. I don't think I have the patience to make stuff quite as complex as his.