Inspired by a friend and fellow folder (should out to @aboy021), I decided to throw a 60cm square at Alessandro Beber’s “Dasa Star”:

Carving a hexagon and laying in basic axial creases, initially the paper is collapsed into a tato (envelope) and then re-folded into a tato to form a pinwheel structure as the base.

Then, in a process reminiscent of the algorithmic fractal sequence of Shuzo Fujimoto’s “Hydrangea”, we go through processes of teasing paper until it is no longer free, then flipping over and feeding more paper through the middle structure in a “paper pump”, then flipping over and teasing again.

The “pump” mechanism is necessarily more complex than the Hydrangea (based on 4) because we are using a hexagon, and the interactions are more complex between axes. The geometry that emerges is just lovely, and theoretically could go on getting smaller and smaller – limited only by accuracy, the thickness of paper and the smallnicity of being able to manipulate/unsink tiny internal flaps.

I used crispy Kraft paper off one of my rolls but I imagine folding this with thinner paper, the result of both top view and back-lit view would be beautiful.