| Origami Heaven A paperfolding
paradise
The website of
writer and paperfolding designer David Mitchell
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Name: 1-fold
Coaster - probably the simplest possible
modular origami design. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 4 modules from silver
triangles using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2002.
Diagrams:
On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site
under the title Coasters Supreme.
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Name: Rotor
Coaster - a 2 fold design.. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 4 modules from silver
triangles using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2002.
Diagrams:
On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site
under the title Coasters Supreme.
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Name: Spiral
Coaster - a 3-fold design. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 4 modules from silver
triangles using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2002.
Diagrams:
On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site
under the title Coasters Supreme.
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Name: Ad
Infinitum - an endlessly revolving toy Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 4 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.
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Name: New
Year Star Modules / Paper shape / Folding
geometry: 4 modules from squares using standard
folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1997. Tomoko Fuse has
produced an essentially similar design and may
have creative priority.
Diagrams:
In the British Origami Society Convention Pack
for Spring 1997.
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Name: Ring of 16 Squares Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 4 modules from squares
using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: Wayne Brown, c1982.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: The Eureka
Cube Modules / Paper shape / Folding
geometry: 4 modules from squares using standard
folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1988.
Diagrams:
On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.
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Name: 2 into
1 - a modular assembly puzzle. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 4 modules from squares
using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1989.
Diagrams:
Diagrams can be found in Paperfolding Puzzles
(2nd Edition) - David Mitchell - Water Trade -
ISBN 978-0-9534774-5-6.
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Name: Masu
Cube - Cube made by combining four
traditional Masu. An example of a Four Box Cuboid
or Cube. Paper shape / type: Square paper of
any kind.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2005.
Diagrams:
On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.
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Name: Silveroctahedron
- will also flatten and pop back into
shape, hence also Pop-up
Silveroctahedron. Can be made from many
different parallelogram modules such as Sonobe,
Corner-pocket Sonobe and Letterbox modules. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 2 sets of 2
mirror-image parallelogram modules from squares
using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1989 and 2016.
Diagrams:
On-line diagrams are available on the Devious Devices page of this site.
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Name: 4Star Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 4 modules from 2x1
rectangles using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1989.
Diagrams:
On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.
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Name: The Butterfly
Tetracube Modules / Paper shape / Folding
geometry: 4 modules from squares using standard
folding geometry. The modules which are first
combined in pairs then woven together to create
the form. There are two ways to connect a pair of
modules. The weave will only work if the two
pairs of modules are connected in different ways.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2003.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: The Striped
Mirror-Image Octahedron - can be made
from Abe or Terada modules or from the equivalent
designs embedded in squares. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry:
Designer /
Date: Modules - Various. Assembly - David
Mitchell, 2003.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: The Square
Base Rhombic Pyramid Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 4 modules from silver
rectangles.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2017.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: Rhombic
Octahedron (4-part) Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 4 modules from silver
rectangles.
Designer /
Date: Not yet available.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: Reoriented
Rhombic Octahedron Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 4 Nick Robinson rhombic
parallelogram modules in 2 mirror image sets from
silver rectangles.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2014.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: Mirror-Image
Cuboctahedra Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 2 sets of 2
mirror-image modules folded from bronze
rectangles using 60/30 degree folding geometry,
which will go together in two different ways to
create the twin designs pictured here.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2000.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: Colour-Change
Collapsible Cube - begins as a square
section tube which can be twisted and collapsed
to create an odd-looking cube. The cube will
squash flat sideways and can be manipulated in
the palm of the hand to cycle through all four
coloured faces in turn. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 4 modules from silver
rectangles.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1993.
Diagrams:
On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.
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Name: Rotating
Ring of 8 Rhombic Tetrahedra Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 4 modules from silver
rectangles.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1995.
Diagrams:
In Mathematical Origami - David Mitchell -
Tarquin 1997 - ISBN 189961818X.
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Name: Truncated Tetrahedron
(4-part) Modules / Paper shape / Folding
geometry: 4 modules from bronze rectangles using
60/30 degree folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2000.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: Octahedron
(4-part) Modules / Paper shape / Folding
geometry: 4 modules folded from double bronze
rectangles using 60/30 degree folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1990.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: Truncated Octahedron
(4-part) Modules / Paper shape / Folding
geometry: 4 modules from bronze rectangles using
60/30 degree folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2000.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: Snub
Cube Modules / Paper shape / Folding
geometry: 4 modules folded from bronze rectangles
using 60/30 degree folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2000.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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