| Origami Heaven A paperfolding
paradise
The website of
writer and paperfolding designer David Mitchell
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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