New Origami Tessellation Model

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I made a cool new model. The creation process was a bit weird. I first had an idea, what if I made the tessellation I invented before and make a diagonal square grid. That turned into this:

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Looks interesting but way too similar to the last one which was this:

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Next I was wondering what If I did the same outwards pattern using hexagons on a triangle grid. Things got very messy and interesting fast. Because of the way hexagon twists function there's a strip on the side which you can neutralize in a couple ways but that would defeat the purpose of the pattern. The next best thing is to keep folding using the leftover crumpled paper, I decided to make it zig-zag by spinning the hexagon twist clock-wise/counter-clockwise.

Next I was really hoping to make a bigger version of this, half aware it wouldn't work. This is the doubled grid using A3 format paper.

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After a certain point there were just too many corners layered on top of each other, biggest problem with this is it causes a distance shift at the inner corners of the hexagons. More layers= bigger shift. technically this model would be possible if the paper was way thinner but It would be more prone to ripping.

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This still looks really nice but not what I wanted. Maybe I'll come up with something else that works.
Thank you for reading :)

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