Origami Heaven

A paperfolding paradise

The website of writer and paperfolding designer David Mitchell

 

 
24-part Modular Designs
 
Cubes
 
  Name: The Two-Fold Cube - a minimalist modular design.

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 24 modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 1995.

Diagrams: On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.

 
  Name: The Simplex Cube

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 24 L-shaped Simplex modules from squares using standard folding geometry. Cubes made from larger numbers of modules are also possible.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 1989.

Diagrams: On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.

 
  Name: The Doubly Banded Cube aka the Packing Case Cube

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 24 modules from symmetric, asymmetric or doubly assymetric banded modules folded from various paper shapes.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 2001.

Diagrams: On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.

 
  Name: The Two-Fold Cube - a minimalist modular design.

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 24 modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 1995.

Diagrams: On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.

 
Other designs
 
  Name: Gemini 24 - a decorative rhombicuboctahedron.

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 24 modules folded from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 1990.

Diagrams: In Paper Crystals (2nd Edition) - Water Trade - ISBN 978-0-9534774-9-4.

 
  Name: Elite

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 24 modules from silver rectangles.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 1991.

Diagrams: On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.

 
  Name: Elite Flexicube

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 24 modules from silver rectangles.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 1992.

Diagrams: Not yet available.

 
  Name: Kite Pattern Rhombic Dodecahedron

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 24 modules from silver rectangles.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 1990.

Diagrams: On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.

 
  Name: Stellated Rhombic Dodecahedron

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 24 modules in two sets of twelve from silver rectangles. Made by adding 'hats' in the formn of rhombic pyramids to the modules for Nick Robinson's Rhombic Dodecahedron.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 1997.

Diagrams: In Mathematical Origami - Tarquin Publications - ISBN 1-899618-18-X.