Few modern origamists are as prolific and inventive as Jeremy Shafer – he seems to be creating new models constantly, and most importantly, his designs are fun to fold:

This is his Pyramid Tessellation field – each molecule has pre-creases that have easy landmarks, meaning you could expand this field in any direction as far as you have patience for.

This version is a 4×4 field of 16 separate square-based pyramids – a lovely thing in itself but when you start playing with it it starts to do wonderfully weird things.

Using just the existing creases, the model flexes diagonally and also horizontally/vertically. When you flex it diagonally it turns in on itself and COLLAPSES down to a hexagonal stack – this initially broke my brain until I noticed the pre-creasing actually formed pyramidal faces that are equilateral triangles – the collapse then is just one state it can be arranged into.

I had been given a large stack of the most beautiful Kraft paper (discarded by a book binding guild) so I have been torturing it to see what it can do – I must say it is very high quality paper, takes and holds folds beautifully – I am so glad to have a large quantity of it now to use. I have been cleaving squares of large (60cm and 90cm wide) rolls I got at OfficeWorks – also fabulous Kraft paper.

This model was a lot of fun to fold – his video tutorial is easy to follow and the resultant fold is delicious to play with. You should explore his YouTube channel – so many treasures to be found there.