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Other
Cubes and Cuboids |
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This page gives details of my designs for
Cubes which are not made from multi-purpose modules. |
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Paul
Jackson Cube variations |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Other
Cubes |
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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:
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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