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I was fooling around, as you do, and came up with this:



A few image searches didn't turn up anything that looked similar, so I wondered - is this kind of 3-d tesselation common? And does it have a name?

I may be wrong as it is just a pic, but that looks like a complex use of 3d box-pleating techniques. Like the kind used to make Mooser's train or implement cubes (waterbombs) into a model (like Hojyo's Thunder God). I have done something similar, but not quite the same-I only had individual cubes popping up, not complex raised patterns. Looks really cool and well folded though.

Other people might have come up with similar stuff, but yours is very original. It reminds me of the stretch wall by Momotami

Jonnycakes, I don't think it's box-pleated, though I've never actually done box-pleating, so perhaps I just didn't realise that's what it was! It's actually fairly simple to do, but kind of hard to describe...I could try making a video of the step if anyone was interested?

Brimstone, that wall is gorgeous!

that strongly reminds me of a model of a marble maze in one of the Origami USA convention booklets, though it might only vaguely be similar

Boxpleating is anything that uses only horizontal and 45 degree angle folds. This doesn't include shaping/detail folds, so I guess there is some leeway in what is boxpleated and what isn't.

Then I guess it is box-pleated

There's a very bad sort of CP at http://aesthetistician.livejournal.com, if anyone is interested.

I don't recognize it, although it's possible it could have been folded before I started folding tessellations. It doesn't look like the kind of stuff people were doing back then though, so I think it may well be an original work. It looks very nice, I'm going to put it on my list of models to reverse-engineer one of these days.

About that boxpleating terminology, though: generally, tessellations aren't referred to as being "boxpleated" unless they actually use that technique to form flaps, as I've done a few times (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahudson/1987841667/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahudson/2053348782/. For models like this we say that they're on a square grid (or a 90 degree grid).