Origami Heaven

A paperfolding paradise

The website of writer and paperfolding designer David Mitchell

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1988
 
This was the year when I first experimented with modular origami design. My first ever modular design wwas tthe Pimpled Dodecahedron. Many of my designs from this year proved to be rediscoveries of designs that were already known such as Paul Jackson's Cube, Robert Neale's Octahedron, Kenneth Kawamura's Blintz Cube etc.
 
 
 
 
  3-part Cube (1) - from squares.   021   1988   Diagrams not yet available.
 
  Andromeda - skeletal octahedron developed into twelve point star - 18 squares.   022   1988   BOS Convention Pack Autumn 1989 // BOM 140 February 1990 (original 12-module method without corner caps - diagrams drawn by David Petty) // Paper Crystals - Water Trade - ISBN 0-9534774-2-8 (method with original corner caps) // Paper Crystals (2nd Edition) - Water Trade - ISBN 978-0-9534774-9-4 (method with new corner caps)
 
  Binary - various folding geometries possible - from 2 squares.   036   1988   On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.
 
  Bowl on Legs - from the windmill base.   023   1988   On-line diagrams are available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
 
  Enigma Bowl - octagonal bowl from the Enigma Base.   024   1988   Complete Origami - Collins and Brown - David Mitchell - ISBN 978-1-84340-397-5 // Le Pli 113-114 - Mai 2009 // Rencontres de Mai 2009 - MFPP // On-line diagrams are available on the Single Sheet Designs page of this site.
 
  Enigma Cube (2 part) - cube surrounded by curved collars - 2 squares.   025   1988   BOS Convention Pack Spring 1989 // Drawing and description in BOM 132 October 1988 (also explains David Brill's 12-part version) // Paper Crystals (2nd Edition) - Water Trade - ISBN 978-0-9534774-9-4
 
  Enigma Cube (6 part) - cube surrounded by curved collars - 6 squares.   026   1988   Paper Crystals - Water Trade - ISBN 0-9534774-2-8 // Paper Crystals (2nd Edition) - Water Trade - ISBN 978-0-9534774-9-4
 
  Eureka Cube - 4 squares.   027   1988   Synergy 1 - Water Trade // On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.
 
  Nolid Cuboctahedron - four interpenetrating hexagons - from hexagons, squares or double bronze rectangles.   028   1988   Mathematical Origami - Tarquin Publications - ISBN 1-899618-18-X (from double bronze rectangles) // In Portuguese - Origami matematicos - Republicao - ISBN 972-570-257-3
 
  Nolid Dodecahedron - from 30 squares.   029   1988   Diagrams not yet available.
 
  Nolid Octahedron (2-part) - from 2 squares.   542   1988   On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.
 
  Pimpled Dodecahedron - from 12 squares.   034   1988   Diagrams not yet available.
 
  Puzzle Icosahedron - from 5 hexagons.   010   1988    
 
  Quartetra - originally conceived as a modular assembly puzzle - from hexagons.   030   1988   Paperfolding Puzzles - Water Trade - ISBN 0-9534774-0-X // Paperfolding Puzzles (2nd Edition) - David Mitchell - Water Trade - ISBN 978-0-9534774-5-6
 
  Semi-Star - from 6 squares.   031   1988   Paper Crystals (2nd Edition) - Water Trade - ISBN 978-0-9534774-9-4
 
  Simplex modules - from squares - will make any solid shape whose faces are squares, truncated squares or silver triangles.   035   1988   On-line diagrams available here
 
  Waterbomb Star   032   1988   Diagrams not yet available.
 
  Woodpecker - simple action toy - adaptation of Paul Jackson's fold of the same name.   033   1988   BOS Convention Pack Spring 1989 // Origami Animals - Greenwich Editions - David Mitchell - ISBN 1-86288-770-4.