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The website of
writer and paperfolding designer David Mitchell
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Name: The
Penultimate Dodecahedron Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 30 modules from squares
using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: Robert Neale. Date of creation unknown.
This design is sometimes also attributed to Lewis
Simon.
Diagrams:
In Practical and Decorative Origami - Jay Ansill
- Cassell 1992 - ISBN 03047341479.
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Name: Dodecahedron
with Windows aka Outline
Dodecahedron. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 30 modules from
rectangles using silver folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1989 / Francis Ow, similar
date or possibly earlier.
Diagrams:
Version with larger windows as 'Outline
Dodecahedron' in Mathematical Origami - Tarquin
Publications - ISBN 1-899618-18-X // In
Portuguese - Origami matematicos - Republicao -
ISBN 972-570-257-3 // On-line diagrams for the
version pictured here are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.
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Name: Star
Decorative Ball Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 30 modules from squares
using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: Hachiro Kamata, 1980s.
Diagrams:
In Origami: The Complete Guide to the Art of
Paperfolding - Rick Beech - Lorenz Books (Anness
Publishing) - ISBN 0754807827.
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Name: Star
Contrast Ball Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 30 modules from squares
using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1991.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: Valle
di Natale Modules / Paper shape / Folding
geometry: 30 modules from squares using standard
folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: Silvane Betti Mamino, 1980s.
Diagrams:
In the British Origami Society convention pack
for Spring 1989.
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Name: Skeletal
Icosahedron or Nolid Icosahedron
- a development of David Brill's
Skeletal Cube arrived at by folding the modules
from golden rectangles rather than the silver
rectangles of the original design. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 30 modules from golden
rectangles.
Designer /
Date: Kunihiko Kasahara, 1980s.
Diagrams: In
Kunihiko Kasahara and Toshie Takahama's 'Origami
for The Connoisseur' - Japan publications 1987 -
ISBN 0-87040-670-1.
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Name: Skeletal
Dodecahedron or Nolid
Dodecahedron Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 30 modules from squares
using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1988.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: Electra
30 or just Electra - a pierced decorative
icosidodecahedron. Modules / Paper shape / Folding
geometry: 30 modules folded from squares using
mock platinum folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1989.
Diagrams:
In Paper Crystals (2nd Edition) -
Water Trade - ISBN 978-0-9534774-9-4 // On-line
diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.
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Name: Gemini
30 or just Gemini - a
decorative icosidodecahedron. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 30 modules folded from
squares using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1990.
Diagrams:
In Paper Crystals (2nd Edition) -
Water Trade - ISBN 978-0-9534774-9-4.
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Name: Aurora Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 30 modules folded from
squares using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1989.
Diagrams:
In Paper Crystals (2nd Edition) -
Water Trade - ISBN 978-0-9534774-9-4.
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Name: Proteus
30, or just Proteus - a
decorative pierced icosidodecahedron Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 30 modules folded from
squares using 60/30 degree folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1992.
Diagrams:
In Paper Crystals (2nd Edition) -
Water Trade - ISBN 978-0-9534774-9-4.
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Name: The
Banded 20-point, or just the Banded
Star - a 20-point Stubby Star surrounded
by under and overlapping bands of colour which
are integral to the structural modules. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 30 symmetric,
asymmetric or doubly assymetric banded modules
folded from various paper shapes.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2001.
Diagrams:
On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.
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Name: Ariadne
30, or just, Ariadne -
a 20-point Stubby Star to which the metamorphosis
1 distortion has been applied. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 30 modules folded from
squares using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1990.
Diagrams:
On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.
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Name: Phaedra30
or just Phaedra - a
decorative variation of Ariadne. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 30 modules folded from
squares using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1990.
Diagrams:
On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.
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Name: Spiky
Star (30-part) Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 30 modules from 2x1
rectangles using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2001.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: Vulcan
30 or just Vulcan - a
decorative pierced icosahedron. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 30 modules folded from
a custom rectangle using 60/30 degree folding
geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2008.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: Stella
Nova 30 or just Stella Nova Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 30 modules folded from
a custom rectangle using 60/30 degree folding
geometry, although they can also be folded from
4x1 rectangles with only a small loss of
elegance.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2008.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: Stella
Nova Duo 30 or just Stella Nova
Duo Modules / Paper shape / Folding
geometry: 30 modules folded from a custom
rectangle using 60/30 degree folding geometry,
although they can also be folded from 4x1
rectangles with only a small loss of elegance.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2008.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: Pierced
Snub Dodecahedron Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 30 modules folded from
bronze rectangles using 60/30 degree folding
geometry
Designer /
Date: Tung Ken Lam
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: Four
Octahedra - can be seen as being
composed of either four stacked nolid octahedra
or six interpenetrating 2x1 rectangles. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: Made by linking
together 4 Robert Neale's Octahedra with six
joining pieces. All modules folded from squares
using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1995 and 2016.
Diagrams:
On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.
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Name: Five
Intersecting Tetrahedra Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 30 modules folded from
3x1 rectangles using 60/30 degree folding
geometry.
Designer /
Date: Tom Hull, 1990s. The open-frame tetrahedron
used as a macro-module in this design was
independently discovered by both Francis Ow and
Tomoko Fuse in the 1980s.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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Name: Zigzag
30 or just Zigzag - a
simplification of Sappho. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 30 modules from squares
using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2012.
Diagrams:
In Paper Crystals (2nd Edition) -
Water Trade - ISBN 978-0-9534774-9-4.
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Name: Rosebud
Icosahedron Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 30 modules folded from
squares using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 2014.
Diagrams:
Not yet available.
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