While going through the BBC website, I saw an article that could be relevant to the tessellation folders. They accomplish their missions with cutting but the patterns reminded me of the tessellation folds that I have seen. Mark Kennedy Islamic art inspires stretchy, switchable materials BBC >From the section Science & Environment http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35818924 By Jonathan Webb Science reporter, BBC News, Baltimore
16 March 2016 A new set of "metamaterials" has been created based on intricate, repeating patterns found in Islamic art. Metamaterials are engineered to have properties that don't occur naturally, such as getting wider when stretched instead of just longer and thinner.
