Four-Sink-Base Tessellation

Model October 19, 2015 April 18, 2021
…/zAx9P4 …/z3Lfo8 …/z3GwGD
Folding instructions: Four-Sink-Base Tessellation
This is the primary page for this model.
Other folds and variants: Saturn Tessellation, Four-Sink Base Tessellation (Larger Spacing), Four-Sink Base Tessellation (Diagonal), Quartered Box
Paper: Elephant Hide
Type: classic tessellation, pixel art (implies: abstract tessellation, abstract, geometric, pattern, abstract periodic tessellation, non-recursive periodic tessellation, periodic tessellation, tessellation)
Author: Michał Kosmulski, other/uknown (independent discovery by many people, including myself)
Models using this unit: Cube from Recursive Four-Sink Base
Colors: brown and beige
In albums: Models designed by me and by others, Models with Pictures of Precreased Sheets

Some corners folded up in order to create a pixel image — Images are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

This kind of tessellation is not very interesting in itself, but has been invented and used by many authors independently as basis for more advanced designs. I also came up with this design at some point and used it for my Saturn Tessellation.

It seems different names are in use for the molecule, but the name I picked up is Four-Sink-Base, used by Meenakshi Mukerji. There is an interesting discussion about where this model and its name came from in comments below this flickr post.

Comments