Hex Twist Star (CFW 422 applied to CFW 84)

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This star by Shuzo Fujimoto demonstrates a general technique which I labeled CFW 422. Here, it is combined with the simplest of Fujimoto’s basic stars, Windmill (CFW 84).

CFW 422 is not found in any of Fujimoto’s books (at least not that I’m aware of), but I found a model folded this way among Fujimoto’s models in my possession. It was the exact design you see here (combined with CFW 84). While I haven’t seen physical models or information in any books about combining this technique with other stars in the center, it is so obvious you can do it that I assumed Fujimoto must have known it. Therefore, I assigned the CFW number to the technique rather than a specific model. Note that this is inconsistent with my approach of assigning a separate CFW number to each specific combination of rays and center for most stars.

Since I only have a physical model folded by Fujimoto, there are no instructions and I had to reverse-engineer the design. Fortunately, it is very simple and consists of just folding a star normally made from 6×6×6 grid from an 8×8×8 grid and adding a kind of swivel fold on the back in order to make the ray narrower.