YouTuber Sarah Adams has a couple of videos on tessellations. Here's a playlist of her videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL13A44D22E042BB7F

Book-wise, I am personally very fond of Eric Gjerde's Origami Tessellations: Awe-Inspiring Geometric Designs.
You can buy that here: https://www.amazon.com/Origami-Tessellations-Awe-Inspiring-Geometric-Designs/dp/1568814518

Good luck and happy folding!

u/iscariot · 6 points r/origami

Really anything will work at first, but it is a lot more rewarding to use decent paper. I've found Tant to be a great compromise between price and quality; here's where I got mine.

As for instructions, it really depends what you're interested in making.

I would recommend YouTube videos since you're just starting out; it will pretty much eliminate the confusion that comes along with diagrams and crease patterns.

Sara Adams has a great channel, as does Jo Nakashima. There are a bunch more, but those two are what I remember off the top of my head.

Just searching around I found one for a hummingbird - I haven't folded it or watched it before, but it looks decent.

I almost exclusively fold tessellations; I'm not sure if that would interest you or not. Shuzo Fujimoto's Hydrangea might be a good place to start. Or Eric Gjerde's Tiled Hexagons, which is a more traditional tessellations, although it isn't diagrammed as well here as in his book (which you should definitely get if you are at all interested in tessellations).

u/CafeNero · 5 points r/math

u/Underpups · 3 points r/origami

https://www.amazon.com/Origami-Tessellations-Awe-Inspiring-Geometric-Designs/dp/1568814518

u/KingOfThePark · 3 points r/origami

The best place to start is probably with Eric Gjerde's wonderful book, which details commonly used techniques, stages instructions for a sequence of 25 patterns in increasing complexity, and includes a bunch of photos of other works to get you thinking about even more projects.

Here's an even more basic place to get started: a pair of PDFs detailing his Spread Hexagons tiling.

Start with this one. If you scroll to the end, you'll find a good guide to precreasing the triangle grid.
This one has better detailed instructions and photos for folding the tessellation into the grid.

Happy folding!

Edit: I forgot to include pictures! A simple google search for "spread hexagons" yields some handsome previews. Here's one of my favorites

u/Cherry_mice · 3 points r/origami

First thing first: If you're american, I would suggest joining Origami USA for the lending library. I've never used it (not american) but it seems useful.

If you're looking to get past the youtube videos and simple models, I would recommend some of the classics (though they might not be the newest). They are also more likely to be available. [Origami Omnibus] (http://www.giladorigami.com/BO_Omnibus.html) gives a good overview of the field though it was written before the Tessellators made it big. It should help you decide what kinds of origami you're interested in.
Origami from Angelfish to Zen has a nice overview of the history of origami.
[Origami design secrets] (http://www.giladorigami.com/BO_DesignSecrets.html) is a newer classic and covers a lot of the technical advances in the latter half of the century.

As for intermediate/advanced books, the best ones are "boutique" books from special publishers.
origami house does all the hard core japanese designs like Kamiya, Komatsu, and Nishikawa. They also publish the annual tanteidan convention book which is hands-down the best collection of diagrams each year. I almost always buy it (though sometimes I wait and buy several at once)

[Passion Origami] (http://www.passion-origami.com/marques.php) is the other major publisher and has the books by Roman Diaz, Quentin Trollip, and the VOG.

If you don't want to pay for shipping dead trees around, [Origami USA] (https://origamiusa.org/catalog/newest-downloads) has some diagrams for online purchase, I haven't looked at them all, but there are some good names there.

Modular origami is actually kinda diverse. Are you interested in pure geometrics (phizz, sonobe), clever decorative (Miyuki Kawamura), kusudama balls (glue!). Try the flickr group or browsing.

For Tessellations, it's Eric's book Origami Tessellations, and the Origami tessllations flickr group.

Other books I like (and can name off the top of my head right now):[Origami Dream world] (http://www.giladorigami.com/BO_Dreamworld.html) and origami dream world 2, Brilliant Origami is a classic for animals and has many clever models, Origami for the Connoisseur is a mix of good models from other sources, Fuse's Spirals a gorgeous art book. I have a soft spot for Origami in action .

Hopefully that's enough so that you can get a feel for what's out there right now. If you can tell us more about what you like, then we can give more specific suggestions.

Last comment: Go to an origami convention! That's really where the new and exciting stuff happens and you can meet all the designers.

u/zofcz · 1 point r/origami

My favorite tessellations (including your one) comes from Eric Gjerde (Sarah Adams did many of those in her channel). Get his book and visit his website and flickr.

Start with this one. It is not a tessellation by mean, but it is fun model and good for practicing precise folds and some skills.

This one is interesting model and it will give you an idea how important is to fold a grid (basically how to "prefold" a paper before making creases).

And finally - this one followed by [multi-level version] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=474PmBXekK8) is your holy grail. If you stick with this one and find yourself enjoying hours spend with this bad boy you'll know that you're hooked on tessellations (here is my humble 5-hour contribution). Then just go through the book and videos and diagrams.

I just find it so relaxing. Just turning on some music, and for hours creating something complex and symmetrical. Have a great time!

u/cubascastrodistrict · 1 point r/origami

Yes! In Origami Tesselations by Eric Gjerde. This book is the best entrance point into origami tesselations. I would warn you though, this model was way harder than I expected, so you probably want to start with some simpler tesselations first.

u/dilznoofus · 1 point r/woahdude

Yes, there is a book, which I'm happily plugging as the author of said book :) (and the creator of the pieces in the photos, too.)

u/legopuffer · 1 point r/origami

Michael Lafosse books are good, like Origami Art and Advanced Origami
http://www.origamido.com/

I like Eric Gjerdes diagrams in here
http://www.amazon.com/Origami-Tessellations-Awe-Inspiring-Geometric-Designs/dp/1568814518

Also John Montrol has lots of animal books

u/FearlessGT · 1 point r/origami

You should get this book Origami Tessellations: Awe-Inspiring Geometric Designs by Eric Gjerde, you can buy it from here,

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Origami-Tessellations-Awe-Inspiring-Geometric-Designs/dp/1568814518/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1415997968&amp;sr=8-1-spell&amp;keywords=origami+tessillations

Its a very good starting place, the models start of very simple, and get slightly more difficult as you progress through the book, the diagrams are very clear, pictures are shown for most steps and there is also a coloured Mountain and Valley Crease pattern for each model which helps ALOT! :).

If you dont want to buy the book, you can find lots of examples and tutorials on youtube, ill provide a link to a few,

Five-and-Four Tessellation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2boGii3i9s

Star Puff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhyM6_ioTCE

For the paper, you can use Glassine, super thin, which you can get from the Origami shop.com
http://www.origami-shop.com/en/extra-thin-glassine-xsl-207_215_624_633.html

Tant
http://www.origami-shop.com/en/tant-papers-origami-xsl-207_215_458_625.html.

Hope this helps! :D

u/TheOrigamiKid · 1 point r/origami

Aha! I see a Menger sponge or two and some Thomas Hull intersecting tetrahedra. Excellent!

I'd highly recommend this book (http://www.amazon.com/Origami-Tessellations-Awe-Inspiring-Geometric-Designs/dp/1568814518) for getting started in tessellations. They're similar in spirit to modular origami (to which I see you're well-informed), but I find it much easier to fold these when I travel for work (It's just one piece of paper) and make better gifts (they can be hung from a wall/window for backlighting and fit an "adults" house better).

Bonne chance!

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