I’m so proud. Some friends on Flickr folded my designs… I’m sooo happy about this ^.^

One friend is helikonia, who folded my “Sahnehäubchen I” and did a realy good job…

Another friend is That Andy Guy, who folded my “Tessellated Butterflies”, one of my newest design. The shaping and the picture is great ^.^

It’s so nice to see my designs folded by other people ^.^ Thanks guys

Again there was a little tessellation challenge at Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/otdc2009/pool/

The topic was jungle and I thought a long time about what to do and had the idea to fold something like a pixel picture…

I started with a 1:128 grid and a more than 16-level-hex-spread (designed by Eric Gjerde).

I used this as basic for a field of triangle twists, but I didn’t sqashed them all, only the twists which form the picture, in this case the snake, where squashed. As a small decoration I folded some flowers in the center of the model, they are really easy (6 combined hexagons).

All together I folded about 27 hours… the grid was folded on many ways to my school, the hex-spread on my way to Berlin/Potsdam and home again and the final triangles mostly at home…

A new variation of my Starflower ^-^ It looks more like a flower now, or some strange kind of fruit…

My internet still doesn’t work, but a friend let me use his computer. So there’ll be some new pictures soon ^.^

I played around with this shape for some time and here are some Variations of it:

Starflower-Bouquet I

Starflower-Bouquet II

Starflower-Bouquet II backlit

I didn’t photoshop the color, I just used my colorchanging Lamp and this effect appeared ^.^

This is the bigger version of my orange octagons for october with a little variation.

Sadly I’ve neither orange EH nor orange Tant, that’s why this one is only almost orange…

I finished the bigger version of my “Metamorphose” (the black one). It’s made from a whole sheet of EH (50×70cm) ^-^
But it’s really hard to take a good picture of black EH, I guess. In fact it looks much better, than the picture.

A full DIN A4-Sheet of dark grey elephant Hide… The grid is about 3.5 mm.

This is the hexagonal version of my orange octagons for october or in other words the rhombic 6.6.4. (or something like that) combination of my Sahnehäubchen I. Something total new for me.

This is a new variation of my Metamorphose, called “Field of Flowers”. It’s a little bit hard to see, but in this version the trapeziums build a stem with petals for the flowers.

Here are some impressions of the building process:

Here are some pictures of my newest Tess. The idea isn’t so new, I folded it the first time some month ago, but it’s the first time I tessellated it and folded a bigger version ^-^

Out of a Hexagon (Diameter: 36cm) with a 1:64 Grid, the final model has a diameter of about 14cm, it’s very pleat-eating…

1. The unfinished model, with the hex twists squashed, but not the triangle twists

2. Everything squashed down ^-^

3. & 4. Finished model, with the small hexagons twisted upwards.

It’s up to the folder, which hexagon parts are sunken and which one are raised.

I made a partial CP and some explanations, if anyone want to fold it ^-^

I finished this Tess and now it’s one of my favorits ^-^

I want to fold a black and big version of this and hope it’ll look good …

For this one I started with a DIN A4 sheet of lightgrey Elephanthide, the size of the finished model is about 16,5×10,5cm.   (One side of a triangle of the grid is 3mm wide ^.^)

This is my newest Tessellation. It’s a test version and incomplete.

On the left is a flower and on the right an arrangement of trapez twists, the folding of both is nearly the same, that’s why this kind of progress was so obvious ^-^ The 3Dness of the flower on the left is inspired by Garibiilan’s “Hexagoned and bleached Red Flower Tess”

At the CP the similarity between the flower and the trapez twist can be seen. The main mountain creases are continouse through the whole CP, only the valley folds and some small mountain folds change.

These are some explanations, because I don’t like to work with CP’s (I can’t read them) and I know some other people have problem with CP’s too.

I’ve started with 8 pleat wide open back hex pleat, surrounded by 6 others, similar to Eric Gjerdes Spread Hex Tess with twice the width (if you don’t know, what I’m talking about, don’t be shy and ask ^-^ I’m not sure if I always use the right term for things)

1. I guess this is similar to this one by Garibiilan

2. on the way to many triangle twists, every possible triangle should be twisted

3. many triangle twists

4. at this point we could make puff stars ^-^ but we will go on and …

5. & 6. squash this parts

7. everything sqashed

8. just open…

9. -11. … and close again, but with this little part outside

12. squash this little parts and the first part is finished ^-^

My first rectancle composition. It is similar to

I wanted to show the birth of a star by the building process of a Puff Star. I don’t know if one can recognize this and if I’ve done it correct.

I love this blue EH, it’s my absolut favorit.

Motivated by Ray Schamps there perhaps will be a Tessellation Show. And I want to participate. Thats why I’m looking trough my models and try to find presentable designs. Yesterday I had a new idea, it’s a variation of my “Flower Diamond Tess”, but less floral, more winterly ^-^

I first made a basic form (picture above) and then variated the center (below left). I’ve drawn a partial CP of the final Tess, with the visible parts of the final Tess shaded, for a better clarity.

While refolding some of my models I recognized, that I didn’t made CPs, but need them to precrease my paper. So I began to draw CPs. This is the first one for this model.

It’s drawn by hand, because I still have no program to do this with my computer.

The solid lines are mountain folds, the dotted ones, are valleyfolds. I coloured the final twists in grey, to make the CP a little bit clearer.

Während ich ein paar meiner Modelle neu gefaltet habe ist mir aufgefallen, dass ich keine CPs gemacht habe, ich sie jetzt aber zum precreasen brauche. Deswegen habe ich angefangen CPs zu zeichnen. This ist das Erste. Es ist mit der Hand gezeichnet, da ich immer noch kein Program habe um es mit dem PC zu machen.

Die durchgezogenen Linien sind Bergfalten/Mountainfolds, die gestrichelten Talfalten/Valleyfolds. Ich habe die finalen Twists grau markiert um das Cp übersichtlicher zu machen.

My Hexagonal Rose is finished

I changed the closing of the base, now it’s a little bit rounder and it looks more like the Kawasaki Rose.

	First you need a 1:64 trigonal grid and a hexagonal Twist which is shiffted (don’t know if it’s the right word for it) about 90° against the grid. The hexagon will be at the inside. 1a + b Then you’ve to fold the creases as shown. 1b The inside of the rose 2a +b These little creases helps to shape the rose 2a the Outside of the rose
	3a This is an auxiliary crease, for the next step 3b + c It’s a link to stiffen the rose 4 Fold the flaps inside the pocket which results from step 3
	5a Now begin to close the base 5b Insert the flap into the pocket 5c The finished base 6 The finished rose, now the shapping begins

Finished ^-^

My first CP.

Drawn by hand, because I’ve no Program to do this with my computer ^.^
I hope someone will use it ^.^

I’ve played a little bit with one of Lorenzos CP’s and this is what arises, something what looks like a Shamrock, I guess. At the moment I’m precreasing a sheet of darkgreen Elephant Hide with which I’m going to fold a circle of Shamrocks ^.^ I’m just trying to complet the CP, my first one ^.^

I folded the left Tessellation some days ago, it’s the same as this Tess, but folded from Elephant Hide and not from Glassine. It has a totally different effect.

Right: After some time I recognized some Puff Stars hidden in my Tessellation ^.^

Again something small. The big red Sahnehäubchen-II-Tessellation had inspired me to experiment. I was not sure what to so with the double Triangle Twists around the center, that’s why I experimented and found some possibilities, which I like to integrate in a bigger tessellation , but didn’t match with the Sahnehäubchen ^-^

And I just wanted to do a Tess with less hex and a lot of triangles , but it’s not so easy, as I thought. At the end, there are a lot of Hex, but I think they are a little bit hidden ^-^ Elephant hide is really good for jobs like this. A long time I didn’t want to use EH, but now I love it ^.^

My Friend said it would look like an Sahnehäubchen, in english it’s a kind of creamswirl, like those on the top of a cake. I like the name more than Double-Hex-Twist-Tessellations that’s why from now I want to call it Sahnehäubchen ^-^

Even if this one does not really look like a swirl ^-^ After the 2. of June I’ll try to make a Foto-Instruction. I’ve noticed that I’ve folded many models, but didn’t upload Crease Patterns or something like this … I don’t know if anybody is interested, but anyway I’ll give it a try ^-^ Perhapy somebady can help me with some tips how to do CP or Instructions ^-^

On the right is my newest tiny model, the Sahnehäubchen in the middle is surrounded by Triangeltwists, but this time the Triangletwists conceal the outer parts of the Sahnehäubchen, that’s why it doesn’t look so swirly ^-^

Ich habe mich zum ersten mal an Elefantenhautpapier heran gewagt… Es lässt sich wirklich sehr schön falten und die Struktur ist toll. Ich habe mich aber noch nicht an Wetfolding versucht, Elefantenhaut kann auch so verfaltet werden, aber es ist halt ein wenig dicker… Dadurch und durch seine Festigkeit bekommt man ganz ander Möglichkeiten Tessellation 3D zu falten. Jetzt habe ich nur das Problem, dass ich nicht weiß, wie ich diesen Twist in eine größere Tessellation einbauen kann…