Four-Sink-Base Tessellation
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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)
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
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.
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