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The website of
writer and paperfolding designer David Mitchell
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Name: Simple Tetrahedra -
tetrahedral versions of the Business Card Cube
design. Modules / Paper shape / Folding
geometry: 2 mirror-image modules from squares (as
in picture) or any other rectangles using various
folding geometries.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2016. Design similar to,
but not consciously based on a design for a tree
Ornament by Molly Kahn in The Origamian Vol 7
Issue 4 of Winter 1967.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: Mirror-Image
Tetrahedron Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 2 mirror-image modules
from various paper or cardboard shapes using
60/30 degree folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1997.
Diagrams:
From double-bronze rectangles in Mathematical
Origami - Tarquin Publications - ISBN
1-899618-18-X.
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Name: Striped Mirror-Image
Tetrahedron Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 2 mirror-image Abe or
Terada modules or the equivalent geometry
embedded in squares. 60/30 degree folding
geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2003.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: Quartetra Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 4 modules from
hexagons. 60/30 degree folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1988.
Diagrams:
Paperfolding Puzzles (2nd Edition) - David
Mitchell - Water Trade - ISBN 978-0-9534774-5-6.
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Name: Nolid
Tetrahedron Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 6 modules from silver
rectangles.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1988 / Ian Harrison.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: Open-frame
Tetrahedron Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 6 modules from
rectangular strips. 60/30 degree folding
geometry.
Designer /
Date: Francis Ow and Tomoko Fuse, both in the
1980's.
Diagrams:
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Name: Kite-pattern
Tetrahedron Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 6 Abe or Terada modules
from bronze triangles or the equivalent geometry
embedded in squares. 60/30 degree folding
geometry.
Designer /
Date: Hisashi Abe / Norishige Terada / Tomoko
Fuse, all probably in the 1980's.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: Reptile
Tetrahedron Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 12 Reptile modules from
squares using 60/30 degree 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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Name: 12-part
Tetrahedron Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 12 modules from silver
rectangles using both standard and 60/30 degree
folding geometry (though other rectangles of
similar proportions could be used since the
natural geometry of the silver rectangle is not
utilised).
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1992.
Diagrams:
British Origami Society Convention Pack Spring
1992.
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