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Flexing Honeycomb (Origami Design)

9/8/2013

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One of my earliest designs, born from a brainwave on creating hexagonal cells from a square grid:
One uncut square, designed in 2007.
I was so excited by my idea and immediately rushed out a crease pattern based on it:
Flexing Honeycomb crease pattern
Flexing Honeycomb crease pattern
Turns out I wasn't completely right - I had allocated one unit square for each border face of each hexagonal cell, but the angles between them were not the ideal 120°. In fact, a strict folding of this crease pattern produces a "brick wall" rectangular tessellation, which can be obtained by compressing the folded model. I did not expect the resistance of the paper to expand the folded model slightly, correcting the angles towards the ideal hexagonal shape. The structure of the model, with its springy layers, made it very flexible. The slideshow on top shows various flexing positions.

 An example of how a half-baked idea can lead to something unexpected and interesting even if it doesn't achieve its original goal.
10 Comments
Drake
1/25/2016 05:47:41 am

Hi! This is amazing work. Is there anywhere you can direct me to a step-by-step tutorial for how to make this honeycomb pattern?

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Herng Yi
1/25/2016 07:18:53 pm

Hey Drake, I'm glad you like it! Unfortunately I don't have step-by-step instructions, but I've dug through my archives and added one photo of the folding process to this post. I'd recommend folding all of the long vertical creases first, and then pinch each cell out one by one like I was doing in the photo.

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Drup shah
4/10/2019 11:46:25 pm

Hello Herng, We tried this tesselation using given template but were unable to develop it.Then, we found error in the given template.
we have made a new correct one. please correct your template so that people do not get confuse.
Thankyou.

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Herng Yi
4/18/2019 05:19:57 am

Hey Drake, I'm glad you like it! Unfortunately I don't have step-by-step instructions, but I've dug through my archives and added one photo of the folding process to this post. I'd recommend folding all of the long vertical creases first, and then pinch each cell out one by one like I was doing in the photo.

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Herng Yi
4/18/2019 05:19:19 am

Dear Drup Shah,

Thank you for highlighting an error! I think I've corrected it, I hope it matches what you found on your side. I'm sorry for this 12-year mistake!

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Ai
10/4/2019 11:43:50 am

Is this template updated to correct the error?

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Herng Yi
10/4/2019 12:14:31 pm

Yes, it has!

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Grace Matthews
2/10/2020 10:56:10 pm

Hi, I teach a free origami class at my local library once a month. Do you mind if I teach this model as an exploration of crease patterns and display the results?

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Herng Yi
2/11/2020 08:01:28 pm

Hello Grace, I'd be delighted and honoured to have you teach the model! If you have any documentation of the event, like photographs or something, it would be amazing to see what impact my creation is having on people :) Thank you for teaching this! If you have questions about how to fold it, I'd be happy to answer them as well. You can contact me privately here: http://www.herngyi.com/contact.html

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liana link
7/25/2022 05:19:08 am

thanks for info

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