| Origami Heaven A paperfolding
paradise
The website of
writer and paperfolding designer David Mitchell
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| Self-template Modular
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| Self-template
modular designs are designs where the modules are used to
help fold each other prior to assembly or as assembly
progresses. I invented this technique for myself and do
not know of any designs of this kind by other folders.
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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: Kite
Pattern Rhombic Dodecahedron Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 24 modules from silver
rectangles.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1990.
Diagrams:
On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.
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Name: Kite
Pattern Triacontahedon Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 60 modules from custom
rectangles using golden rectangle folding
geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1990.
Diagrams:
On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.
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Name: The Octagonal
Wreath Modules / Paper shape / Folding
geometry: 8 modules from squares using standard
folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1997.
Diagrams:
On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.
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