Cutting The Perfect Regular Hexagon
Posted: July 21st, 2016, 7:07 pm
Anyone who follows my gallery on here or on Flickr knows that I'm primarily a purist when it comes to origami, but I dabble in tessellations a bit. I'm running into a bit of a problem, though: cutting an accurate regular hexagon.
These are the methods I currently use:
1)
-Cut a strip of paper
-Crease it in fourths longways
-Fold one corner to the 1/4 crease through the midpoint of the short edge (this gives a 60deg angle)
2)
-Use the given 60deg angle on my cutting mat
Unfortunately, neither of these methods seem to be entirely accurate--to the tune of 1mm on a 40cm hexagon.
Does anyone have a better method?
These are the methods I currently use:
1)
-Cut a strip of paper
-Crease it in fourths longways
-Fold one corner to the 1/4 crease through the midpoint of the short edge (this gives a 60deg angle)
2)
-Use the given 60deg angle on my cutting mat
Unfortunately, neither of these methods seem to be entirely accurate--to the tune of 1mm on a 40cm hexagon.
Does anyone have a better method?