I was originally turned on to hexaflexagons while watching a video by vihart. I’ve since become a tad obsessed. My partner, Jane Meredith, and I created Hexaflexago, a hexaflexagon template generator.

Features

• Generates a printable trihexaflexagon template
• Upload up the three images; Hexaflexago splices them into the template for you

Technical Notes

Written with:

• React.js using create-react-app
• the vanilla SVG standard

What’s Next?

There are some improvements I’d like to make to Hexaflexago eventually.

• enable users to crop added images (currently Hexaflexago letterboxes images that are not regular hexagons)
• add documentation on how to fold the hexaflexagon template
• support adding six images to make hexahexaflexagons

I’m also currently working with Littoral Press to make hexaflexagon business cards. Here’s a prototype: