Origami - Tesselations

Tessellations are an arrangement of shapes on a surface, in this case on paper. The logic behind origami tessellations is creating a grid on top of which shapes are folded by manipulating directions of folds or squishing shapes. Most origami tessellations are folded on a hexagon on triangle grid since it gives a lot of possibilities with patterns and shapes.

This is how I make a hexagon from A4 paper:

Now comes the fun part, making the grid, this step depends on how detailed you want the final work to be.

After that you start folding the shapes in, I tried making as many as I could think of on this sheet.

This is a nice simple model to start out with:

You can play around with the hexagon/triangle sizes angles and so on.
Here's a sligtly more complex model:

This is an example of extending a pattern using a square grid, you could in theory make it indefinitely but who has time for that 😆


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