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| Devious Devices |
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| Devious
devices is the umbrella name I give to objects made from
paper that either do strange and unexpected things, can
be performed as magical effects or optical illusions, or
just sit there looking both devious and devicey in
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Name:
Balancing Act - magical stunt Paper type / shape:
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1995
Reference:
420
Diagrams:
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Name: 7
Borromean Rings Paper type / shape:
Custom
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1999
Reference:
172
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Name:
Borromean Figures of Eight -
manipulative puzzle. Paper type / shape:
Custom
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1999
Reference:
172
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Name:
Borromean Trefoils Paper type / shape:
Custom
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1999
Reference:
172
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Name:
Two-Layer Colour-Change Mobius Band Paper type / shape:
Custom
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1999
Reference:
177
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Name:
Three-Layer Colour-Change Mobius Band Paper type / shape:
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1999
Reference:
177
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Name:
Four-Layer Colour-Change Mobius Band Paper type / shape:
Custom
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1999
Reference:
177
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Name:
Six-Layer Colour-Change Mobius Band Paper type / shape:
Custom
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1999
Reference:
177
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Name:
Counter-Rotating Cube - single sheet
optical illusion. Paper type / shape: Square
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1999
Reference:
114
Diagrams:
Online diagrams are available on the Devious Devices page of this site.
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Name:
Counter-Rotating Cuboctahedron - single
sheet optical illusion Paper type / shape:
Custom
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1999
Reference:
115
Diagrams:
Online diagrams are available on the Devious Devices page of this site.
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Name:
Hyperflex Prism - simple variation of
Hyperflex. Paper type / shape: A4 or similar /
Homogeneous
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1999
Reference:
182
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Name: Let's
Twist Again - development of the Two Way
Tube. Paper
type / shape: A4 or similar rectangle /
Homogeneous paper.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2013
Reference:
351
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Name:
Paradox Cubes - foldable apparatus to
demonstrate changes in the apparent relationship
of arrangements of cubes. Paper type / shape:
Custom
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1999
Reference:
185
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Name: Two
Way Tube - a modular version of Robert
Neale's classic design.. Paper type / shape:
A4 or similar rectangle / Homogeneous paper.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1997
Reference:
151
Diagrams:
BOM 184 June 1997 // As the Magic Tube in Office
Origami - Adam Russ - Universe Publishing - ISBN
0-7893-1313-8 // Learning Mathematics with
Origami - Tung Ken Lam and Sue Pope - 2016 -
Association of Teachers of Mathematics - ISBN
9781898611950 // On-line diagrams are available
on the Devious Devices page of this site.
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Name: The
Ultimate Cube Illusion Challenge Paper type / shape:
Custom
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 123
Reference:
1995
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