Origami Heaven

A paperfolding paradise

The website of writer and paperfolding designer David Mitchell

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8-part Modular Designs
 
Flat Designs
 
  Name: Magic Star also known as the Pinwheel, Pinwheel-Ring-Pinwheel, Frisbee or Ninja Star.

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 8 modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: Robert Neale, 1970.

Diagrams: First published in Flapping Bird no 12, 1970.

 
  Name: The Octagonal Wreath

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 8 modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 1997.

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

 
  Name: The Vice Versa Star

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 8 modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 1997.

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

 
  Name: 2-Fold Star

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 8 modules from silver triangles using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 2003.

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

 
Three-Dimensional Designs
 
  Name: Joyful Units also known as the Rotunda or Magic Circle - a delightful flexible toy that changes from an octagonal wheel (as pictured) into an 8-pointed star and back again as the units are rotated through the centre of symmetry of the design.

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 8 modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: Hiroshi Kumasaka, 1980s.

Diagrams: In Noabooks Kusudama ISBN 4-418-88504-8. It was originally published in NOA magazine no 119, then by Luisa Canovi in the Italian games magazine "Contro Mossa" in 1986.

 
  Name: The Diamond Prism

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 8 modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 1997.

Diagrams: In Building with Butterflies (2nd Edition) - Water Trade - ISBN 978-9534774-7-0.

 
  Name: The Gamma Antiprism is a delicate, but strong and stable, design. Tom Hull has pointed out that paper of four different colours need to be used if it is to be assembled without any of the colours sharing an edge - an unusual property for a modular design.

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 8 very simple modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 1999.

Diagrams: In Building with Butterflies - David Mitchell - Water Trade - ISBN 978-0-9534774-7-0.

 
  Name: Hexakaidecahedron

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 8 Nick Robinson rhombic parallelogram modules in 2 mirror image sets from silver rectangles.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 2017.

Diagrams: Not yet available.

 
  Name: The Rosebud Octahedron (Fully Distorted)

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 8 modules folded from 3x1 rectangles using standard folding geometry. A module that will achieve a similar result can be folded from a 2x1 rectangle but the final result is less successful.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 2014.

Diagrams: Not yet available.

 
  Name: Truncated Tetrahedron (8-part)

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 8 modules from bronze rectangles using 60/30 degree folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 2000.

Diagrams: Not yet available.