3.4. Color Patterns. Working with colors of the elements can be used to show sub patterns in the structure. A nice example is the dual pattern of the Archimedean tiling 3464 (Figure 26). When you want to use different colors for adjacent tiles you need at least three different colors (Figure 27).
Figure 26: Creating the dual pattern of tiling pattern 3464.
Figure 27: Quadrangle tiling patterns (1) and first coloring.
But we can see this tiling pattern as a combination of two other patterns: the triangular pattern, Archimedean pattern 333333 and the hexagonal pattern (Archimedean pattern 666). And by the use of colors we can focus on either of them (Figures 28 and 29).
Figure 28: Second coloring.
Figure 29: Third coloring.
4. Other Flat Patterns
4.1. Other Quadrangular Tiling Patterns. Now we have explored the basic techniques of applying the concept of elevation on flat tiling patterns we can look for other tiling patterns that we can use to create interesting paper structures. The first examples are both based on quadrangular tiling patterns.
Figure 30: Quadrangular tiling pattern (2).
This pattern is chosen because it shows that in some cases the elevation leads to more than one element needed to build the structure (Figure 31).
Figure 31: Building elements and model of the elevation, front and back.
The pattern can be used both for single and double woven structures and also playing with different color schemes will give nice results (Figure 32 and 33).
Figure 32: Double woven elevation.
Figure 33: Second color scheme and model of the elevation, front and back.