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Name: Icosahedron
(5-part) Modules / Paper shape / Folding
geometry: 5 modules from squares using 60/30
degree folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: Tomoko Fuse, 1983.
Diagrams:
The original version from a square was published
in Unit Origami - Pleasure of the New World,
Chikuma,1983. A version from a double bronze
rectangle can be found in Mathematical Origami -
David Mitchell - Tarquin 1997 - ISBN 189961818X.
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Name: Puzzle
Icosahedron Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 5 modules from hexagons
using 60/30 degree folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1988.
Diagrams:
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Name: Mirror-image
Icosahedron Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 10 modules in 2 sets of
5 mirror-image versions folded from double bronze
rectangles using 60 degree folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1998.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: Striped
Mirror-Image Icosahedron - can be made
from Abe or Terada modules or from the equivalent
designs embedded in squares. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 10 modules in 2 sets of
5 mirror-image versions folded from bronze
rectangles or squares using 60/30 degree folding
geometry.
Designer /
Date: Modules - Various. Assembly - David
Mitchell, 2003.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: Skeletal
Icosahedron or Nolid Icosahedron
- a development of David Brill's
Skeletal Cube arrived at by folding the modules
from golden rectangles rather than the silver
rectangles of the original design. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 30 modules from golden
rectangles.
Designer /
Date: Kunihiko Kasahara, 1980s.
Diagrams: In
Kunihiko Kasahara and Toshie Takahama's 'Origami
for The Connoisseur' - Japan publications 1987 -
ISBN 0-87040-670-1.
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Sculptures |
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Name: Neon Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: Made by adding 30
embellishments in the form of tear-shaped tubes
to a 30 module Matrix base. All modules from
squares using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2015.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: Vulcan
30 or just Vulcan - a
decorative pierced icosahedron. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 30 modules folded from
a custom rectangle using 60/30 degree folding
geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2008.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: Arcadia
or Arcadia90 Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: Made by adding 60
embellishments in the form of petals to a 30
module Matrix base. All modules from squares
using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2015.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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