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Compound modular designs are
modular designs created by combining modules of two or
more designs irrespective of whether these modules are
integrated into sub-assemblies (compound modules) or not.
Where the modules which make up such designs are all
folded using the same folding geometry they may be called
simple compound designs. Where the modules are folded
using differing folding geometries they may be called
hybrid compound designs.
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Name: Gyroscope
- a skeletal octahedron with a small hole in the
centre. As the name implies, the Gyroscope can be
used as an action toy. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 12 modules in two sets
of six from squares using standard folding
geometry.
Designer /
Date: Lewis Simon, c1970s
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: Three-Way
Brick - can be linked into other similar
bricks in all three directions. A rhombic
dodecahedron from which twelve small rhombic
pyramids have been removed. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 12 modules in two sets
of six from silver rectangles.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1996.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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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.
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Name: Borromean
Links Modules / Paper shape / Folding
geometry: 12 modules in 2 sets of 6 using
standard folding geometry, based on division into
fifths.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1999. A version of Thoki
Yenn's Umulius Rectangulum.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: Q -
a three layered kusudama. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 18 modules from squares
using standard folding geometry, in three layers
of 6 modules each.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2001.
Diagrams:
In Paper Crystals (2nd Edition) -
Water Trade - ISBN 978-0-9534774-9-4.
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Name: Double Diagonal Stripe
Cubes - variations of the Paul Jackson
Cube that can be assembled from the same set of
compound modules. Modules / Paper shape / Folding
geometry: 6 compound modules, each from two
squares using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2001.
Diagrams:
In Building with Butterflies (2nd Edition) -
Water Trade - ISBN 978-9534774-7-0.
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Name: Six
Intersecting Rhombic Tetrahedra Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 36 modules of two
different kinds, all folded from silver
rectangles, 12 tubes and 24 joining pieces.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1999.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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| Hybrid
Compound Designs |
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Name: Alternative
Artifact Modules / Paper shape / Folding
geometry: 12 in two sets of 6 modules, one set
from squares using standard folding geometry and
the other set from silver rectangles.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1995.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: Curvaceous Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: Made from 6 modules
folded from squares using standard folding
geometry and 12 folded from silver rectangles.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1998.
Diagrams:
In Paper Crystals (2nd Edition) -
Water Trade - ISBN 978-0-9534774-9-4
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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.
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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.
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Name: Arcadia
or Arcadia90 Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: Made by adding 60
embellishments in the form of petals to a 30
module Matrix base. All modules from squares
using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2015.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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