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22 September 2004
Brill's "Masu"
What: Origami Masu (square and pentagonal)
By: David Brill
From: (both models) self-published booklet
square version: Pajarita 55, BOS Magazine 179 August 1996, Der Falter Issue 17, BOS Convention 1996 Spring, Origami Tanteidan Convention Diagrams No. 3
pentagonal version: Der Falter Issue 22, BOS Convention 1996 Spring
Why: These are just amazing models. Inspired by the tranditional Japanese masu, a small wooden box originally used to measure rice, and now sometimes used for drinking sake, the square version of the model gets the proportions and solidity of the real thing down perfectly. The pentagonal version (which doesn't exist except in origami) was the result of Dave's realization that he could take advantage of the "underlying approximate pentagonal geometries" in an A4 sheet of paper. (His words; I've not messed with the golden ratio math involved enough to have had any such realizations.)
I love these. Dave's a genius.
