> > 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.
Ok, so silly question about this one: the instructions don't specifically state if the units need to be assembled "in place" as with the five-intersecting-tetrahedra or not. The implication as I read it is to create the five squares then somehow interlace them without opening them. But that doesn't seem possible. Howard
