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Other Cubes and Cuboids
 
This page gives details of my designs for Cubes which are not made from multi-purpose modules.
 
Paul Jackson Cube variations
 
  Name: The Centre Stripe Cube - a decorative variation of the Paul Jackson Cube.

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 6 modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 1989.

Reference: 229

Diagrams: Not yet available.

 
  Name: Off-Centre Stripe Cubes - Variously patterned cubes assembled from the same set of six assymetric modules.

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 6 modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 2001

Reference: 229

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

 
  Name: Iso Cubes - Variously patterned cubes assembled from the same set of six assymetric modules.

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 6 modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 2001.

Reference:229

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

 
  Name: The Chequerboard Cube - a decorative variation of the Paul Jackson Cube.

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 6 modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 2001

Reference: 229

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

 
  Name: Single Diagonal Stripe Cubes - variations of the Paul Jackson Cube that can be assembled from the same set of modules.

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 6 modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 2001.

Reference:229

Diagrams: Synergy 3 - Water Trade // Building with Butterflies (2nd Edition) - Water Trade - ISBN 978-9534774-7-0.

 
  Name: Double Diagonal Stripe Cubes - variations of the Paul Jackson Cube that can all be assembled from the same set of compound modules.

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 6 compound modules, each from two squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 2001.

Reference: 229

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

 
  Name: Yin Yang Cubes - variations of the Paul Jackson Cube that can both be assembled from the same set of modules.

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 6 modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 2001.

Reference: 229

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

 
  Name: Yin Yang Cube (2)

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 6 modules from squares using standard folding geometry and a single diagonal cut.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 2001.

Reference: 229

Diagrams: Diagrams not yet available.

 
  Name: PJ Cuboid - cuboidal variation of Paul Jackson's Cube.

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 4 modules from silver rectangles and 2 modules from squares, all using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 2015

Reference: 374

Diagrams: Not yet available

 
Other Cubes
 
  Name: 2-part Cube

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 2 modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 2006

Reference: 300

Diagrams: Not yet available

 
  Name: The 2-Fold Cube - minimalist modular design.

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 24 modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 1995.

Reference:

Diagrams: BOM 186 October 1997 // On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.

 
  Name: 3-part Cube

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 3 modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 1988

Reference: 021

Diagrams: Not yet available

 
  Name: The Belted Cube

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 5 modules, three of one kind and 2 of another, from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 2015.

Reference: 373

Diagrams: Not yet available.

 
  Name: The Broken Square Cube - a variation of the Twisted Square Cube.

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 6 modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 2001.

Reference: 053

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

 
  Name: Eccentricity - modular assembly puzzle. Six simple assymetric modules can first be assembled to form a symmetric cube then taken apart and reassembled to produce an eccentric onre. Development of the Unconventional Cube.

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 6 modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 2002.

Reference: 249

Diagrams: On-line diagrams, and one possible solution, are available on the Puzzles page of this site.

 
  Name: The Eureka Cube

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 4 modules from squares using standard folding geometry / division into thirds.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 1988.

Reference: 027

Diagrams: Synergy 1 - Water Trade // On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.

 
  Name: The Interlocked Cube - from 3 interlocked Half Cubes.

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 3 or 6 modules from squares using standard folding geometry / division into thirds.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 2014.

Reference: 364

Diagrams: Diagrams not yet available.

 
  Name: Magazine Cover Box Cuboid - cuboid made by combining four of the shorter, broader version of the Magazine Cover Box.An example of a Four-Box Cuboid.

Paper shape / type: 4 modules from rectangles using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 2005.

Reference: 566

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

 
  Name: Masu Cube - Cube made by combining four traditional Masu. An example of a Four Box Cube.

Paper shape / type: 4 modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 2005.

Reference: 566

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

 
  Name: New Mystery Box - 6 identical modules from - simplification of traditional Japanese design.

Paper shape / type: 6 modules from 4x1 rectangles using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 1996.

Reference: 128

Diagrams: Synergy 1 - Water Trade // On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.

 
  Name: Photo Frame Cube - version of the Playing Card Cube which has pockets at the corner of each face into which the corners of photographs, windmill base or blintzed windmill base designs etc can be inserted.

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 6 modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 2018.

Reference: 564

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

 
  Name: Pinwheel Cubes - a series of 2-part modular cubes which become progressively more challenging to assemble as more of the wings are folded away inside the cube.

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 2 modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 1999.

Reference: 188

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

 
  Name: The Twisted Square Cube

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 6 modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 1989. Subsequently, in October 1990, Francis Ow sent me a copy of his privately published book on Modular Origami which also contains diagrams for this cube under the title Cube 3. I do not know which of us has priority.

Reference: 053

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

 
  Name: The Unconventional Cube - a stable cube made from modules created in just three folds and assembled in an irregular way.

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 6 modules from squares using standard folding geometry. Modules identical to those of the 3-Fold Paul Jackson Cube.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 2009.

Reference: 249

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

 
  Name: The Whirlpool Cube

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 12 modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 2001.

Reference: 239

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

 
  Name: The Yakkosan Cube is a version of the Photo Frame Cube in which each face has been filled with a Yakkosan insert.

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: Each Yakkosam is folded from a square using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 2018.

Reference: 558

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