paper and polyhedra

Followed instructions from a Flickr image that I saved at one point, but I can’t remember the author now. If anyone knows who the designer is, let me know?

Used a cute yellow bunny print paper from the care package that my grandma sent to me! There are still a ton of pieces left, so you can expect a lot more pieces to come using this type of paper!

The model is really simple to fold, and only took me around 1.5 hours to finish making the pieces. Assembly is a little fiddly, so you have to be delicate when putting all the pieces together. It holds without glue, so you can get it to work! I actually like this model a lot, but I think it came out a bit smaller than I expected.

I used the rest of the paint chips that I lifted from Home Depot that were left after I made the Pointsettia origami. Model is the Diagonal unit from Tomoko Fuse’s Unit Polyhedron Origami.

The paint chips were difficult to fold still, since they’re so thick. Assembly was really annoying as well, and actually it didn’t turn out too prettily. There are a lot of marks from my creases and then holes from not assembling tightly. The lesson is still the same: dont cut paint chips too small. These were about 1 x 2 in.

Just settled into the college dorms! I have so much stuff, even though I wasn’t able to bring all of my paper supplies. So far, the suitemates seem okay, though I’m not sure about all of them.

I was going to transfer the posts here to wordpress, but for some reason the import function isn’t working for me, so I guess that I’ll just have to manually copy over the entries later.

There’s a dance tonight, so I’ll probably be going with L, D, and people, then to the afterparty. Looking forward to Tuesday movies with TH and W.

Anyways, mini-project is this icosahedron from paintchips! It’s just scored and glued together, so its nothing fancy, but I think that it looks good for that amount of work! Pictures to come later.

September 15, 2009, 16:46

Browsing the Modular Origami Group on flickr again, and saw some people who’ve done this. It seemed like it would be fun to do, and fit the number of papers I had perfectly!

Used the 120 sheet pack of origami paper, plus 2 cut sheets of wrapping paper, to make these 7 puzzle pieces. Since there were so many colors, I thought that I would unify the pieces’ appearance by doing it in the Striped Sonobe variation by MM, which highlights the reverse side.

I glued it to make sure that the pieces would stay together when people are playing with it. haha, I had to try quite a few times before figuring it out.

September 13, 2009, 06:09

The amazing polypolyhedron by Robert Lang! I saw a bunch of pictures on flickr and fell in love with this model. It really resembles Tom Hull’s Five Intersecting Tetrahedron, but adds an additional layer of complexity. Instead of being made from 5 tetrahedron, its made from 20 triangles.

Its a real challenge to assemble. I’m sure that as you can see from the photograph, the corners are all messy. When assembling the triangles, I thought that I would glue to make them but I actually ended up making a lot of mistakes putting it together! So because of that, I had to tear out the glued piece, which led to the corners being so messed up.

I think I’ll try this model again, and try to do it justice. Sometime in the future. 🙂

September 09, 2009, 22:41

I completed a bunch of models last week, but have been lazy about posting. As usual, pictures still to come.

First up is Tomoko Fuse’s Little Turtle, from Unit Origami. Made this model to finish off my second notepad of paper! I really like the bright green color.

The model isn’t too difficult to fold, and its fun to assemble. The units tend to fall apart, when there are only a few connected. At the end, the model is fairly stable though.

From the Papercrafts book.

There’s so much pre-creasing needed to fold each unit that it gets kind of annoying. I had a hard time assembling the pieces, because they just wouldn’t stay inside. In the end, I had to resort to glue.

Well, the model looks interesting, especially from the inside, but I don’t think I’ll be making it again.

Another Tomoko Fuse model, from Origami Tanteidan 71. A lot of precreasing again, and a few measurement folds. It’s hard to fold this one while trying to watch a show at the same time, because you have to look at the piece to check if the fold is going in the right place. I guess because of that it feels like a lot of folding for such a simle piece.

Even though it does take a while to complete, the model turns out really nicely.

August 30, 2009, 15:43

Sorry for the double-post today, but it’s my dad’s birthday! I made him a model from Tomoko Fuse’s Unit Polyhedron Origami, the Regular Icosahedron.

I used some shiny birthday wrapping paper, hoping that "Happy" and "Birthday" would show up on the faces, but no such luck. Still, I like how this model shows off the paper’s design in a clean and minimal way. I think that it seems very modern!

When I first assembled the model, I only connected it with the joints. I just put the last piece in, when the whole thing just broke apart! Apparently, the wrapping paper is too smooth, and doesn’t have enough grip to stabilize the model. I ended up using glue on the joints then reassembling. I accidently left some gaps by gluing the joint too far out, but even so, I think it turned out pretty well.