Fold your own tessellation | MIT Technology Review

Yoder’s detailed folding instructions:

Once you have your crease pattern on a sheet of paper, cut out the hexagon that contains the pattern. Yoder recommends using a straightedge and blade on a cutting mat instead of scissors, whether that means an X-Acto knife and a ruler on a sheet of cardboard or a quilting ruler and rotary cutter on a fabric cutting mat.

The next step is folding the background grid of black lines that the pattern uses…