On Tue, Oct 2, 2012, at 08:39 PM, Dick & Serena LaVine wrote: > > I’ve been trying to fold Five Interlocking Squares,published in The Paper > #111.
> After wrestling withthe paper to close the > connection, I find that my struts look as though they’vegone through the > washer-dryer cycle in my laundry room. Can anyone give me some > hints/pointers tomake the assembly easier and/or smoother? I’d be most > appreciative. I completed the model without too much struggle, but it did take a little practice to connect the units without torturing the paper. I found that both tabs have to be started simultaneously, and gently worked by easing the units from side to side, bringing the inside faces of the two units towards each other, while working the tabs in. Once they are well along, you can flatten the two units, belly to belly as it were, and neaten up the connection. Then fold the two joined units along the longitudinal crease to futher lock the tabs inside their pockets. Once you get it, it makes a very solid, clean and neat joint. The instructions had a numerical error: The ratio of the individual unit strips is 1:2.667, not 1:2.75. This isn't a problem if you prepare the paper as shown in the diagrams. There were some printing errors in the diagrams, mostly omitted lines connecting the arrowheads, and some easily inferred but omitted crease lines on diagrams 7, 10, and 11. Also, on diagram #10, the tabs should be folded to the inside of the unit, not the outside as shown. I'd like to know what the resulting geometric figure would be called if you were to make planes using the vertices of the completed model. It would have two pentagonal, ten triangular and ten square faces. Some kind of truncated anti-prism? Hope this helps - Scott, who wouldn't enter into the copyright/piracy/DRM discussion for love nor money.
