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| Prisms
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most commonly encountered prisms and antiprisms in
modular origami are triangular prisms, diamond
prisms and square antiprisms.
Platonic octahedra are, of course, also triangular
antiprisms. |
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Name: The Alpha Prism Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 6 modules from squares
using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1997.
Diagrams:
In Building with
Butterflies (2nd Edition) - Water Trade - ISBN
978-9534774-7-0.
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Name: The Beta Prism
- appears identical to the Alpha Prism but has
pockets in different places. Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 6 modules from squares
using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1997.
Diagrams:
In Building with
Butterflies (2nd Edition) - Water Trade - ISBN
978-9534774-7-0.
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| Diamond
Prisms |
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Name: The Diamond Prism Modules / Paper
shape / Folding geometry: 8 modules from squares
using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1997.
Diagrams:
In Building with
Butterflies (2nd Edition) - Water Trade - ISBN
978-9534774-7-0.
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| Square
Antiprisms |
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Name: The Gamma
Antiprism is a delicate, but strong and
stable, design. Tom Hull has pointed out that
paper of four different colours need to be used
if it is to be assembled without any of the
colours sharing an edge - an unusual property for
a modular design. Modules / Paper shape / Folding
geometry: 8 very simple modules from squares
using standard folding geometry.
Designer /
Date: David Mitchell, 1999.
Diagrams:
In Building with Butterflies - David Mitchell -
Water Trade - ISBN 978-0-9534774-7-0.
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