Origami Heaven

A paperfolding paradise

The website of writer and paperfolding designer David Mitchell

 

 
60-part Modular Designs
 
  Name: Sonobe Spiky Star

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 60 Sonobe modules folded from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: Michael Naughton, Tom Hull, David Mitchell, all independently in or around 1989. I do not know who has creative priority.

Diagrams: Not yet available.

 
  Name: Corner-pocket Sonobe Spiky Star

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 60 Corner-pocket Sonobe modules folded from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 1989.

Diagrams: Not yet available.

 
  Name: Electra 60 - a pierced decorative rhombicosidodecahedron

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 60 modules folded from squares using mock platinum folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 1989.

Diagrams: In Paper Crystals (2nd Edition) - Water Trade - ISBN 978-0-9534774-9-4 // On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.

 
  Name: Gemini 60 - a decorative rhombicosidodecahedron.

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 60 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: Nolid Icosidodecahedron or Skeletal Icosidodecahedron - can be conceived of as composed of six interpenetrating decagons.

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 60 modules folded from squares using mock platinum folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 1990.

Diagrams: Not yet available.

 
  Name: Andromeda 60

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 60 modules folded from squares using mock platinum folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 2012.

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

 
  Name: Cloud of Stars (version 3)

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: From 60 Semi-Sonobe modules folded from 2x1 rectangles using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 2013.

Diagrams: Not yet available.

 
  Name: Celestial (version 3)

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: From 60 Semi-Sonobe modules folded from 2x1 rectangles using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 2013.

Diagrams: Not yet available.

 
  Name: Odyssey

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: Made by adding 30 strengtheners to a 30 module Cube-Corner Dodecahedron. Strengtheners from silver rectangles, other modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 2015.

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

 
  Name: Neon

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: Made by adding 30 embellishments in the form of tear-shaped tubes to a 30 module Matrix base. All modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 2015.

Diagrams: Not yet available.

 
  Name: Kite Pattern Triacontahedron

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 60 modules from custom rectangles using golden rectangle folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 1990.

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

 
  Name: Small Stellated Dodecahedron (60-part)

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 60 modules from squares using mock platinum folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 1990 and 2016.

Diagrams: Not yet available.