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Hello This Request is for a Diagram or Crease Pattern or Both with some help On how to Fold it.

its a Pyramid Tessellation Please take a Look and Help Me understand how to Make it and Fold it it'd be much Appreciated.




Thanks in Advance.

There are a lot of pyramid tessellations. Do you know who made it?

Just so you know, it's against Flickr's terms and conditions to link directly to images. It also helps a lot (like in this case) if you link back to the photo page.

For anyone interested, the image can be found here and it's by Igor Tsikinovsky.

Fritha12, it looks as though you've already asked Igor for a crease pattern, which would be the obvious thing to do. If you don't get a response from him, I don't imagine anyone else being much help.

You could always try to reverse-engineer it. The creases are clearly visible. It might even lead you to a new tessellation. Just focus on one pyramid. It looks like the angles at the tip are 30 degrees. It shouldn't be too complicated to determine the rest, and it would be a good exercise.

If you need help folding something like this, maybe you should work on some simpler models to get the hang of things. Most tessellations, as I understand them, tend not to have a folding sequence, they're just a matter of folding the crease pattern and forming the shapes.

It should be pretty easy to reverse-engineer if you take the time to really stop and study the pictures.
The picture of the back side of it would probably help you a lot too.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tsikinovsk ... otostream/

It's clearly the type of tessellation that comes about when you fold a set of pleats that intersect at 90 degrees to each other. I've come up with similar sorts except I formed cubes at the intersections rather than pyramids.