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Name: 12
Intersecting Pentagonal Rings -
unmathematical form based on a Sonobe Spiky Star. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 120 modules, in two
sets of 60, folded from squares using standard
folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1995
Reference:
117
Diagrams:
Not yet avaiable.
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Name: Duality
- a modular sculpture and mathematical
model showing a cube inside a nolid octahedron
and illustrating the duality of the cube /
octahedron. Modules / Paper shape / Folding
geometry: 12 modules in 2 sets of 6 from squares
using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2016.
Reference:
540
Diagrams:
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Name: Fat Cube Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 6 modules from squares
using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2004
Reference:
263
Diagrams:
Diagrams not yet available.
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Name: Half Cube Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 3 modules from squares
using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1989
Reference:
373
Diagrams:
On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.
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Name: Hexoid
1 Modules / Paper shape / Folding
geometry: 6 modules from squares using standard
folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2007.
Reference:
316
Diagrams:
Diagrams not yet available.
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Name: Hexoid
2 Modules / Paper shape / Folding
geometry: 6 modules from squares using standard
folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2007.
Reference:
316
Diagrams:
Diagrams not yet available.
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Name: Hybrid
Prism Modules / Paper shape / Folding
geometry: 6 modules from squares using standard
folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1998.
Reference:
160
Diagrams: Building with
Butterflies (2nd Edition) - Water Trade - ISBN
978-9534774-7-0
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Name: The
Joy of Frogs - 12 frogs forming a
polyhedron. Not robust. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 12 modules from squares
using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2005.
Reference:
282
Diagrams:
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Name: Odditty Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 6 modules from squares
using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1998.
Reference:
165
Diagrams:
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Name: Paper
ball - robust ball with which I have
played keep it up tennis and catch. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 6 modules from squares
using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1989.
Reference:
051
Diagrams:
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Name: Pimpled
(or Pointed) Dodecahedron Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 12 modules from
hexagons using 60/30 degree folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1988..
Reference:
034
Diagrams:
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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.
Reference:
193
Diagrams:
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Name: Three-Way
Brick - design which can be linked into
other similar designs in all three directions. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 12 modules in two sets
of six, all from silver rectangles using silver
rectangle geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1996.
Reference:
132
Diagrams:
Diagrams not yet available.
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Name: Twin
Prisms Modules / Paper shape / Folding
geometry: 8 modules from squares using standard
folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1998.
Reference:
170
Diagrams: Building with
Butterflies (2nd Edition) - Water Trade - ISBN
978-9534774-7-0
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Name: Twin
Open Prisms Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 2 mirror-image modules
from squares or other rectangles using standard
folding geometry. The design pictured here is the
Twin Open Equilateral Triangular Prism.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2020
Reference:
572
Diagrams:
Diagrams not yet available.
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Name: ZYX -
modular skeleton for Elite 2. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 12 modules from silver
rectangles using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1993.
Reference:
107
Diagrams:
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