Matthias Schwar
Radial Rhombi Flagstone
Just Rhombi (Joel Cooper)
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There is an excellent video tutorial series by Madonna Yoder on how to fold origami flagstone tessellations (next to various other interesting tessellation themed content). She has come up with a sequential folding process which i suppose is a lot easier compared to precreasing and collapsing and also more fun and less tedious. I highly recommend to visit her YouTube channel. Without her instructions i would not have even tried folding these flagstones.
Now that I have made all the basic ones (Squares, Hexagons, Triangles, Rhombi), i can compare their difficulty. Starting with Squares, once the folding manoeuvres are understood (that took me some time, cursing and test folds), it is not that hard. The Triangles are the easiest (my point of view) and the least paper stressing. Next, hexagons: Difficult to collapse cleanly, also the least dense pattern. Instead of folding through existing twists as recommended by Madonna Yoder, when adding new lines of hexagons around the center, I found it easier to set up the whole row and afterwards squash some triangles which remained standing. Finally the Radial Rhombi, the most interesting one, most satisfying and quite difficult folding process because new arrangements of pleats keep to emerge. The backlighting is marvelous.
Radial Rhombi Flagstone
Just Rhombi (Joel Cooper)
front side
There is an excellent video tutorial series by Madonna Yoder on how to fold origami flagstone tessellations (next to various other interesting tessellation themed content). She has come up with a sequential folding process which i suppose is a lot easier compared to precreasing and collapsing and also more fun and less tedious. I highly recommend to visit her YouTube channel. Without her instructions i would not have even tried folding these flagstones.
Now that I have made all the basic ones (Squares, Hexagons, Triangles, Rhombi), i can compare their difficulty. Starting with Squares, once the folding manoeuvres are understood (that took me some time, cursing and test folds), it is not that hard. The Triangles are the easiest (my point of view) and the least paper stressing. Next, hexagons: Difficult to collapse cleanly, also the least dense pattern. Instead of folding through existing twists as recommended by Madonna Yoder, when adding new lines of hexagons around the center, I found it easier to set up the whole row and afterwards squash some triangles which remained standing. Finally the Radial Rhombi, the most interesting one, most satisfying and quite difficult folding process because new arrangements of pleats keep to emerge. The backlighting is marvelous.