Origami Heaven

A paperfolding paradise

The website of writer and paperfolding designer David Mitchell

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Rhombicuboctahedra
 
Polyhedra
 
  Name: Rhombicuboctahedron (6-part) / The Multi-Ball

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 6 modules from squares using standard folding geometry. There are versions from 4x4 and 3x3 grids.

Designer / Date: The 3x3 grid version was discovered by Kenneth Kawamura in the early to mid 1970s. Robert E Neale independently discovered the same design, and quite possibly also the 4x4 version, but cannot now recall at what date the discovery was made. Michael Naughton and I both also discovered both versions for ourselves in 1991 and 1988 respectively. Michael realised that the proportions of the designs could be varied so that the flat faces become oblongs rather than squares. He calls this variable version the Multi-Ball.

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

 
  Name: Rhombicuboctahedron (12-part) - requires stiff paper.

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 12 modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 1989.

Diagrams: Not yet available.

 
Modular Sculptures
 
  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

 
  Name: Gaia

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 6 modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 1989.

Diagrams: In Paper Crystals - David Mitchell - Water Trade - ISBN 9780953477494.