Mosque Tiling with negative space, WIPOriginally uploaded by Ori-gomi. The rendered product. hard to see with this paper, but it is a pattern of hexagon shapes in a hexagonal grid, connected by large stars with smaller stars set into them. There’s a lot more that could be packed into this pattern, or changes made to the general folding of it- it’s quite flexible. the 90/120/90/60 intersections (the tips of the interior stars) are quite easy to fold, and that particular pleat/crease intersection can be made into dozens (literally!) of different things. It was hard for me to decide on this particular tiling and folding sequence. Anyway, let me know what you think. I’ll use some unryu next time around.

Folding a star in negative spaceOriginally uploaded by Ori-gomi. Working on some new ideas, and coming up with some methods for more complex tilings. It occurred to me that if I can’t fold a shape because it has non-convex vertices, then I can fold a set of shapes around it to create the shape out of “negative space”, and thusly hint to it’s existence even if it’s not actually there. So, this is a first in a series of experiments. There were MANY ways to collapse and fold this piece, and I had to settle on only one- that was frustrating! but it’s relatively easy to create, and if you do all the required precreasing it pretty much just falls into shape on it’s own. very neat. here’s the reverse (which is also beautiful!):