A few days ago I showed you the
"Basics", not so basic, but rather complex, as some of you noticed, but I wanted to take these tessellations as a starting point for showing the alterations and create new patterns. I like complex and dense patterns... sorry....
Anyway, the fun part or the relation between these two tessellations is, that you can easily switch between the hexagons, because they have the same weaving structure. So you can change the 'big' hexagon into the 'smaller' one and visa versa. Of course the back will change then too.
And then you can play with these little and big hexagons making patterns, like
"Duo 1".
I made a little tutorial of the folding process of one hexagon, so you can see what I mean.
I put the model on a equal sized green hexagon, so you see how the paper 'shrinks'.
Explanation from left to right:
First row:
1. The paper is divided in 16 grid
2. Making the first corner of the hexagon
3. Finished hexagon frontside
4. and the backside
Second row:
5. The folding continues on the backside, preparing a twisted triangle
6. done ;-)
7. all the triangles are done (backside view)
8. frontside view. You see that paper here has double layers and we have to make them 'clean ' again...
Third row:
9. by opening it up a little bit
10. make nice folds again
11. Finished frontside
12. Finished backside, you see there is a change here too
Fourth row:
13. turning the back to the frontside and push up the big the hexagon to the smaller one ( 1 triangle wide), so the model is 3D now.
14. backside view
15. making the little hexagon flat , frontside view
16. backside view
If you are interested to see more, have a look at my tessellation album
Origami - Tessellation Progression".
