Origami Tesselations step-by-step

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This was suggested by jewlzie@jewlzie, I'm guessing a lot of people are concerned with giving out their private info(I'm kinda not) so for people who want the coasters here's a tutorial, it's an intermediate model and unlike most origami begins with a hexagon and not a square. Here's how to make a hexagon from an A4 (any rectangle that's wide enough will do).

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Unfold and pivot the right corners along the middle and the quarter lines as shown

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Cut off those parts

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Fold the right side along the top edge and cut of the excess parts on the left

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Hexagon done :D

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Fold in half over and over again till you get this grid

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Time for the building, pinch along all the corners till you see the small hexagon in the middle

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Start spinning the hexagon clockwise folding the corners one triangle to the right

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Pinch two triangles away from a corner of the central hexagon splitting it into three

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Flatten

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Repeat on all sides

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That's it, wonder how many people gave up half way, I don't like doing too difficult tutorials since I doubt there are too many origami fanatics and doing models out of your own reach can become frustrating which isn't the point of origami. Still I wanted to show the process of making the model, you don't have to make a model to appreciate it's steps :)

Also here's the diagram in the book I learned it from:
Origami tesselations by Eric Gjerde, there's a little adjustment, In my model it actually goes 3 triangles away from the inner hexagon(one's underneath) instead of the two here, reason for that is to avoid a pretty annoying flattening step at the outer corner and I like it more this way

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