[Origami] New modular cubes? O Origami <[email protected]> on behalf of David Mitchell <[email protected]>
Reply all| Today, 3:42 AM Sy Chen wrote: >My friend, Jim Weir and I recently tossed around the idea of teaching simple modular design for a local event. We came up with a few simple ideas for cubes. Some of them >are very simple. Do you know if someone else had created it before? Lewis Simon created some similar but different cubes which he called Magic Cubes. These were created before 1988. The first one consist of three two piece modules. Each module is made from two squares, each folded into a 3x3. The right third of the left square overlaps the left third of the right square. Then, the top row is folded over the center row (both squares together) and then the bottom row is folded up over the now top row. This makes a kind of tube, five squares long. The square on one end of the tube is inserted into the square on the other end of the tube making the first module, a four square ring. The next tube is inserted into the first ring and then closed off to make a second ring. The third tube is woven through the first and second modules to give a cube. Lewis Simon had different ways of folding a 3x3 square with decorative foldings that showed on the surface of the square. Diagrams can be found in Modular Origami Polyhedra, by Lewis Simon, Bennett Arnstein and me Dover 99. Rona
