Origami Heaven

A paperfolding paradise

The website of writer and paperfolding designer David Mitchell

 

 
Flexagons and Flexagon Treatments
 
BOM means British Origami magazine
 
  Black Hole (3x2) - flexagon that opens up to a square ring.   124   1999   Online diagrams are available in the pdf Flexagons and Flexigation on the Flexagons page of this site.
 
  First Slit-Square Silverflexagon - made from a square using cuts and glue.   110   1994   As Harlequin Flexagon in The Magic of Flexagons - David Mitchell - Tarquin - ISBN 1-899618-28-7 // Fully mapped in Silverflexagons 2 - David Mitchell - Water Trade // Landelijke Oridag de Meern 22 September 2001 // Orison 1 2011
 
  Double Cross Flexagon - puzzle treatment of the 3-state bi-linear tetraflexagon.   156   1998   The Magic of Flexagons - David Mitchell - Tarquin - ISBN 1-899618-28-7
 
  Hidden Aces Flexagon   159   1998   The Magic of Flexagons - David Mitchell - Tarquin - ISBN 1-899618-28-7
 
  Ribbon Release Trick - magical effect in which a threaded ribbon is released from a flexagon by flexing it.   190   1999   Online diagrams are available in the pdf Flexagons and Flexigation on the Flexagons page of this site.
 
  Windmill Flexagon - lateral thinking / manipulation puzzle based on a non-twisted flexagon from a square. The solution can only be found by holding the puzzle up to the light.   134   1996   Origami - Barnes and Noble - ISBN 0-7607-3331-7 // BOM 217 - December 2002 - Solution BOM 218 // Paperfolding Puzzles (2nd Edition) - David Mitchell - Water Trade - ISBN 978-0-9534774-5-6 // On-line diagrams are available on the Puzzles page of this site.