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Name: Mirror-Image
Cuboctahedra Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 2 sets of 2
mirror-image modules folded from bronze
rectangles using 60/30 degree folding geometry,
which will go together in two different ways to
create the twin designs pictured here.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2000.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: The Paul
Jackson Cuboctahedron - produced by
inverting all the corners of the Paul Jackson
Cube to the mid-point of each edge. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 6 modules from squares
using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: Paul Jackson, shortly after discovering his
eponymous cube, in the early 1970s.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: The Windmill
Base Cuboctahedron - so named because
the modules are obtained by partially opening out
the folds of a standard windmill base. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 6 modules from squares
using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: I discovered this design in 1989. It has
also been discovered by Michael Naughton around
about the same time. Priority though probably
belongs to Natala Fietta who published the design
in 1986 in Quaderni di
Quadrato Magico no 11.
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Name: The Butterfly
Ball Modules / Paper shape / Folding
geometry: 12 very simple modules from squares
using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: Kenneth Kawamura, early to mid 1970s.
Diagrams:
Diagrams were published in Kenneth Kawamura's
booklet 'Meditations on a Waterbomb' in 1977.
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Name: Skeletal
Cuboctahedron (12-part) or Nolid
Cuboctahedron (12-part) Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 12 modules from squares
using 60/30 degree geometry.
Designer /
Date: Tung Ken Lam
Diagrams:
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Name: Skeletal
Cuboctahedron (24-part) or Nolid
Cuboctahedron (24-part) Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 24 modules from
hexagons, squares or double bronze rectangles
using 60/30 degree geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1988.
Diagrams:
From double bronze rectangles in Mathematical
Origami - Tarquin Publications - ISBN
1-899618-18-X.5
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| Modular
Sculptures |
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Name: Elite Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 24 modules from silver
rectangles.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1991.
Diagrams:
On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.
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