Origami Heaven

A paperfolding paradise

The website of writer and paperfolding designer David Mitchell

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Octahedra
 
Polyhedra
 
  Name: Octahedron (2-part) - a delicate design probably best made from light card.

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 2 modules from double bronze rectangles using 60/30 degree folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 1997.

Diagrams: In Mathematical Origami - Tarquin Publications - ISBN 1-899618-18-X.

 
  Name: Octahedron (4-part)

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 4 modules folded from double bronze rectangles using 60/30 degree folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 1990.

Diagrams: Not yet available.

 
  Name: Nolid Octahedron (2-part)

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 2 modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 1988.

Diagrams: On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.

 
  Name: Robert Neale's Octahedron, Skeletal Octahedron or Nolid Octahedron (6-part)

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 6 modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: Robert Neale, mid 1960s. Many other paperfolders have independently originated this design , including Kunihiko Kasahara, also in the mid 1960's, slightly later than Robert Neale but on the other side of the world, and Joe Power, in Hawaii, sometime in the early to mid 1970's. Incorrectly attributed to Seiryo Takegawa in Origami Christmas Tree Decorations, Paul Jackson, BOS booklet 20, 1982.

Diagrams: On-line diagrams are available on the Modular Designs page of this site.

 
Modular Sculptures
 
  Name: Ethereal

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 6 modules from squares using standard folding geometry. Each module is in the form of a nolid octahedron. The modules are gently twisted together inside the form to hold each other in place.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 2003.

Diagrams: Not yet available.

 
  Name: Odditty

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 6 modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 1998.

Diagrams: Not yet available.

 
  Name: The Rosebud Octahedron - created by applying the rosebud distortion to one dimple of Robert Neale's Octahedron. Up to 4 of the 8 dimples can be distorted in this way.

Modules / Paper shape / Folding geometry: 6 modules from squares using standard folding geometry.

Designer / Date: David Mitchell, 1999.

Diagrams: In Building with Butterflies (2nd Edition) - Water Trade - ISBN 978-9534774-7-0.