Whirlwind Box

Model November 28, 2020 November 20, 2021
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Folding instructions: Whirlwind Tessellation
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Main model description: Whirlwind Tessellation
Other folds and variants: Whirlwind Box (folded from full grid), Stacked Whirlwind Molecule
Paper: Tant
Type: box lid, classic tessellation, curved folding (implies: abstract tessellation, abstract, box, geometric, origami-first design, pattern, single-sheet, abstract periodic tessellation, non-recursive periodic tessellation, periodic tessellation, tessellation)
Author: Michał Kosmulski
Colors: blue
In albums: Models with Pictures of Precreased Sheets

Images are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Top-down view of the molecule — Images are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

This box is decorated with Whirlwind molecule which can also be used for a tessellation. Its design is closely related to my Woven Triangles family, but I gave it a different name since all Woven Triangles variants are flat while this one is 3D and looks best with curved folds.

In the back-lit picture of the precreased sheet, you can clearly see that I made a mistake while precreasing. However, since the two misplaced creases fall inside a pleat, they are not visible at all in the finished model. Despite lots of practice, I do make mistakes while precreasing, but often they do not affect the finished model, or can be made to not affect it by modifying the folding process slightly.

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