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The website of
writer and paperfolding designer David Mitchell
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Name: Dodecahedron (6-part) Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 6 modules from 2x1
rectangles using mock platinum folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: Jun Maekawa, 1980s.
Diagrams:
In Origami for the Connoisseur - Kunihiko
Kasahara and Toshie Takahama - Japan Publications
1987 - ISBN 087040670.
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Name: Dodecahedron Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 12 modules from silver
rectangles.
Designer /
Date: David Brill, 1980s.
Diagrams:
In Brilliant Origami - David Brill - Japan
Publications 1996 - ISBN 0870408968.
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Name: Dodecahedron
- not particularly robust. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 12 modules in sets of
male/female pairs from squares using mock
platinum folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1996.
Diagrams:
In Mathematical Origami - Tarquin Publications -
ISBN 1-899618-18-X.
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Name: The
Penultimate Dodecahedron Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 30 modules from squares
using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: Robert Neale. Date of creation unknown but
probably 1970s. This design is sometimes also
attributed to Lewis Simon.
Diagrams:
In Practical and Decorative Origami - Jay Ansill
- Cassell 1992 - ISBN 03047341479.
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Name: Dodecahedron
with Windows aka Outline
Dodecahedron. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 30 modules from
rectangles using silver folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1989 / Francis Ow, similar
date or possibly earlier.
Diagrams:
Version with larger windows as 'Outline
Dodecahedron' in Mathematical Origami - Tarquin
Publications - ISBN 1-899618-18-X // In
Portuguese - Origami matematicos - Republicao -
ISBN 972-570-257-3 // On-line diagrams for the
version pictured here are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.
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Name: Mock
Platinum Dodecahedron Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 30 modules from mock
platinum rectangles.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1992.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: 30-part
Dodecahedron Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 30 modules from squares
using mock platinum folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: Tomoko Fuse, 1983.
Diagrams:
Unit Origami - Pleasure of the New World,
Chikuma,1983.
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Name: 12-part
Dodecahedron Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 12 modules arranged in
six compound pairs. Clever but complicated
folding sequence.
Designer /
Date: Tomoko Fuse, 1983.
Diagrams:
Unit Origami - Pleasure of the New World,
Chikuma,1983.
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Name: Decorative
Dodecahedron 1 Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 30 modules from squares
using mock platinum folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: Tomoko Fuse, 1983.
Diagrams:
Unit Origami - Pleasure of the New World,
Chikuma,1983.
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Name: Decorative
Dodecahedron 2 Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 30 modules from squares
using mock platinum folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: Tomoko Fuse, 1983.
Diagrams:
Photo only in Unit Origami - Pleasure of the New
World, Chikuma,1983.
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Name: Skeletal
Dodecahedron or Nolid
Dodecahedron Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 30 modules from squares
using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1988.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Sculptures |
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Name: Apollo
20 or just Apollo - a
pierced decorative dodecahedron. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 20 modules from
hexagons or double bronze rectangles using 60/30
degree folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1992.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: Odyssey Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: Made by adding 30
strengtheners to a 30 module Cube-Corner
Dodecahedron. Strengtheners from silver
rectangles, other modules from squares using
standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2015.
Diagrams:
In Paper Crystals (2nd Edition) -
Water Trade - ISBN 978-0-9534774-9-4.
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