Origami Heaven

A paperfolding paradise

The website of writer and paperfolding designer David Mitchell

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Designs Made Using Mock Platinum Folding Geometry
 

Where the designs are not otherwise attributed they are my own.
 
  Pentangle - a 5-part design from squares using mock platinum folding geometry.

On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.
 
  I created the Semi-Star design in 1988 by turning the points of the modules for Robert Neale's Octahedron outwards using mock platinum folding geometry.

Diagrams can be found in Paper Crystals - David Mitchell - Water Trade - ISBN 9780953477494.
 
  The form of Andromeda is made by completing the points of the Semi-Star. The basic form is stable when made from twelve modules. The version pictured here has been enhanced by the addition of six end caps which allow the central nolid octahedron to be coloured separately from the points of the star.

Diagrams can be found in Paper Crystals - David Mitchell - Water Trade - ISBN 9780953477494.
 
  Andromeda 60 is an icosahedral version of Andromeda assembled from sixty modules folfed from square using mock platinum folding geometry. It is a stable but quite delicate design.

Diagrams can be found in Paper Crystals (2nd Edition) - Water Trade - ISBN 978-0-9534774-9-4.
 
  Electra is a beautiful sculpture that can, rather prosaically, be described as a pierced decorative icosidodecahedron. It is assembled from thirty modules folded from squares using mock platinum folding geometry.

Diagrams can be found in Paper Crystals (2nd Edition) - Water Trade - ISBN 978-0-9534774-9-4.
 
  Electra 60 is is a beautiful sculpture, technically a pierced decorative rhombicosidodecahedron, made from 60 squares. The picture shows a five colour version but the sculpture is probably at its best when made from paper decorated with a random or organic design.

Diagrams can be found in Paper Crystals (2nd Edition) - Water Trade - ISBN 978-0-9534774-9-4.
 
  My Nolid (or Skeletal) Icosidodecahedron can be conceived of as composed of six interpenetrating decagons. The modular method allows each of these six decagons to be made in paper of a different colour. This design holds together sufficiently well for display purposes but needs careful handling. You would certainly not want to throw it across the room.

Diagrams are not yet available.
 
  The 60-part method for this Small Stellated Dodecahedron allows each of the five-pointed stars to be coloured individually. The design is stable but not robust. The module is folded using mock platinum folding geometry. The module was first designed in 1990 but updated in 2016.

Diagrams are not yet available.