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Jump directly to this month's individual archived posts:
- LaVin's "Crane Folder"
- Mosely's "Sponge" pieces
- Fuse's "6-Piece Icosahedron"
- Vann's "Open-Faced Cube"
...Or read them all together, below:
26 February 2003
LaVin's "Crane Folder"
What: Crane Folder
By: Anne LaVin
From: created for the contest, no diagrams
complete folder
detail of crane
Why:
MIT's Office
of the Arts ![[new window]](http://web.mit.edu/lavin/origami/blog/images/new-window.gif){kind=small}
held a juried Student
Origami Contest/Exhibition this February, and I (along with other MIT-affiliated
Boston-area origamists Jeannine Mosely , Elsa Chen, Erik Demaine and Martin Demaine )
were the judges. Aside from being great fun for we judges, the event brought
together a number of current students who are very interested in Origami, and
they're resurrecting the MIT Origami
Club (OrigaMIT) with Erik as faculty advisor. Yay!
A couple of days before the opening awards meeting and exhibit opening, we realized it would be nice to have something to put the actual award certificates in. I volunteered to try and come up with something, and this was the result.
23 February 2003
Mosely's "Sponge" pieces
What: Sponge bits
By: Jeannine Mosely
From: http://world.std.com/~j9/sponge/index.html
Menger Sponge proto-pieces
Why:
Jeannine has been working on building a level-3 Menger Sponge for quite some time, now. (See the above link for details, it's really a great idea for a project!) My buddy Elsa and I helped her drive down chunks of it to one of the OrigamiUSA conventions in New York, once.
Anyway, Jeannine has decided that she wants to finish the darned thing, so I was helping her out and folding some cards to use in the construction. It's a fine thing to keep one's fingers busy while sitting in front of the TV. That's one box worth (500, I think) of business cards, folded into sponge-bits.
20 February 2003
Fuse's "6-Piece Icosahedron"
What: 6-piece Icosahedron
By: Fuse Tomoko
From: Origami Tanteidan Magazine No. 77
a 20-sided object made from only 6 pieces... it still makes my head hurt thinking about it!
Why:
Think about it. It's a 20-sided figure folded from only 6 units! How cool is that?
Sorry for the lurid colors in the example photo - I wanted to pick contrasting colors so it was easy to see the coloring, and these are what was leftover in the pack of paper I had. (I also had a miserable cold when I was working on it, so I'll blame it on that. Yeah, that's it, the cold medication made me color blind!)
The units for this modular are very odd, and the assembly process involves more weaving than average for a geometrical modular. The model, once folded, is extremely sturdy, owing to the multiple layers that overlap at any given area, and good slots to tuck all the tabs into.
18 February 2003
Vann's "Open-Faced Cube"
What: 12 Business Card Open-Faced Cube By: Valerie Vann (and Jeannine Mosely) From: This used to be on-line; if anyone knows where Valerie's modular origami page went, do let me know!
Why:
It was mentioned on the O-list, and looked interesting. It is interesting, if a bit tricky to assemble. I had trouble getting everything to fit, and getting tidy corners. (Plus the biz cards I used were a bit old, and cracked somewhat when I folded them.)
I asked Jeannine about it, and it turns out you have to be careful fitting the tabs inside so that the various pieces don't interfere with each other when you're sliding things together. If you do it right, the corners get tighter, and you don't get the little holes like the ones you can see in the photo.
