Basket Weave Tessellation

This is designed by Joel Cooper, and the diagrams and crease pattern appear in Gjerde’s Book “Origami Tessellations" though he also posted the crease pattern in his website.
http://www.origamitessellations.com/2006/11/joel-coopers-basket-weave-crease-pattern/
When I made the Roman Church Floor Tilling (d. b. Christiane Bettens) it’s longest length was only 14.2 cm across (I always start with an 8.5” X 8.5” construction paper or a hexagon cut from the said dimensions), so you could really see the great decrease in size of the paper.
I thought it was the smallest I made, until I made the Basket Weave thingy.
From a hexagon cut from an 8.5” X 8.5” construction paper, I got a (longest length) 12.1 cm tessellation. It’s really cute though.

You can easily see why it is called “Basket Weave.” I come from the Philippines and baskets woven from rattan are very common here. It’s one of the products my country is well-known for.
It also looks great with back-lighting.
In the book, It is considered as one of the easy projects.
BUT there is a flaw in the directions on how to make the tessellation. The photographed instructions only involve ONE open-back hexagon twist. But, of course, let us not rely in the instructions and try to discover the possibilities ourselves.
Okay, somehow I got a very serious tone there…..I LOVE PIE.

Roman Church Floor Tilling Tessellation

This is designed by Christiane Bettens, and the instructions are found in the book “Origami Tessellations” authored by Eric Gjerde.
This has been one of the hardest tessellations I have succeeded with. the result is also very small compared to the size of the paper I have started with. This is one of the characteristics that makes the tessellation a bit cute :D
The story behind its creation is that Bettens visited a church in Rome, and the churches in Rome are VERY BEAUTIFUL. (I’m going to be an architecture student…) She got inspired by the floor designs of a church, so out from her creativity came this:

The tessellation really looks nice, and complicated. In the book, it is labelled as “Intermediate”, so do you think I will be able to do the advanced projects??? crap…. -_-

Fortunate Star

This is one of my designs.
I named this after my grandfather (Fortunato) who died August of 2013. Lolo, I miss you :’(
This star is made from a hexagon, and its way of shaping into a star is very similar to the finishing touches of the Blutenkreisel (C. Sprung) yet these two models are very different.
I tried to reproduce this star before, but I got some steps wrong. Because of that, I was able to create the Star Traia, which I will feature later in this blog.

This is also created from another star. The other star will also be featured later on.
I wasn’t able to make any diagrams for it yet since I can be very busy during this times of the year.

Polaroid Star

This is one of my designs.
This is also my second model that I designed, so I have no idea why I posted the Star Chocola first. :P
This is also pretty easy to make.
It reminded me of the Polaris Star hovering above the North Pole like a bee attempting to rape its victim. Then, after that thought, the brand of some old camera came to me.
And that’s why I named the thing “Polaroid”

I also made the diagrams already. Here it is….

.PS: None of you copycats out there EVER post or share the diagrams WITHOUT MY CONSENT OR APPROVAL.

Star Chocola

This is also one of my designs.
How I got the name? (You would probably not care anyway XD ) Strangely the star reminds me of chocolate. Then this chocolate chips delicacy named Chocola came to mind.
The model is pretty easy. It’s similar to a waterbomb base sandwiched between 2 preliminary bases. So, it’s SUPER EASY to reverse-engineer the thing.

But I’ll post the diagrams in this blog anyway

Crossflower

This is my design.
I remember making this for a friend during an earlier flood (not the same flood as the one I stated in the “Five-and-Four Tessellation) but then the bastard lost it.
Wow, what a waste.
Anyway, I wasn’t able to make the model for many years until when I learned that designing an origami model can raise your credibility as an origami artist or something like that.
Luckily, I was able to reproduce the steps, an now, It is already A LITTLE famous.

I haven’t made the diagrams, but when I do, I will surely post it in this blog.
It’s easy to reverse-engineer it from the picture, though.

Icosahedron

I have seen this model on a youtube video, but the guy who posted the video stated that he did not know or cannot find the name of the person who designed this model,.
So I had a feeling that this model is traditional.
Oh well, oh crap.
I initially thought it was Tomoko Fuse, since a photo in Go Origami! had a photo of an icosahedron with the same pattern, and Fuse’s name is stated as the designer.
http://goorigami.com/modular-origami/icosahedron-and-octahedron/1195
Then, I downloaded a copy of the book “Unit Origami Essence” a. b. Tomoko Fuse (Go Origami! stated that the diagrams of the icosahedron is in thie book) but when I saw the the module for the icosahedron in the book, it is COMPLETELY different from the module of the Icosahedron featured here today.
I was like, “whuuut?”
The model requires 30 pieces of rectangular paper. It’s really fun to make, though.

The link to the instructional video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7qE_Tc8e4g

UPDATE: Tomoko Fuse designed this model. Apparently, there are 2 icosahedra with the same pattern in the book. One from 10 units, the other from 30 (which is featured in this post). Apparently, I was too stupid enough to notice the second one in Fuse's book.