Here’s one of Ilan Garibi’s brick tessellations viewed up close and from the back. Image source: Towerstars, Designed and Folded by Melina Hermsenīecause tessellations use the same repeating pattern the back of the model is often just as great looking if not better than the front. Tessellations don’t have to just be 2 dimensional. Melina Hermsen designed this cool looking 3D tower pattern. Image source: Stitches, Designed and Folded by Ilan Garibi The title of “Stitched” is very appropriate. I really like how this next design looks like a bunch of interlocked chain links or a weaved basket. Image source: Septagon, Designed and Folded by Jun MitaniĬrease pattern available from Jun Mitani’s website Image source: Perceptions, Designed and Folded by Alessandro Beber I’ve always liked these 3D sort of optical illusion shapes and Alessandro Beber is a master of working them into origami tessellation designs. Image source: Twister, Designed and Folded by Ilan Garibi Here’s another excellent brick wall-like tessellation pattern from Ilan Garibi. Image source: Wired, Designed and Folded by Peter Keller It’s folded from elephant hide paper, painted with alcohol based ink and covered with ivory coloured acrylic spray which gives it the rose colours. Here’s an absolutely beautiful looking tessellation. Image source: Space 0, Designed and Folded by Alessandro Beber He’s currently working on a book with instructions to fold some of his designs and hopefully it’ll be out soon. Image source: Yin Yang, Designed and Folded by Andrey ErmakovĪlessandro Beber has a lot of really cool designs with 3D looking shapes folded into the design. This next image is something quite unique. Andrey Ermakov used a hexagon shaped sheet of paper to fold a Yin Yang symbol with two different tessellation patterns. Image source: Designed and Folded by Ilan Garibi In a previous post we talked about the different kinds of tessellations and a bit of the history behind them.įor this post we’re going to get right into the tessellations starting with this very neat looking brick wall. Especially if you appreciate the mathematics and design behind them. Origami Tessellations are a very interesting and unique use of paper.