Body and Soul

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This tessellation consists of alternating layers of two types of elements that differ significantly in their appearance and complexity. The folding sequence is quite elegant and, as is rarely the case, apart from different precreasing, a clean fold can be made using the same sequence as a fold from complete grid. Even the clean fold retains some visible crease lines, though, and avoiding those would be very difficult if possible at all due to the way layers are arranged. A molecule is 6×8 grid units which means a square sheet results in a rectangular tessellation. I plan to make another fold some time, with layers arranged horizontally rather than vertically.