The Public Paperfolding History Project

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Last updated 20/8/2025

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Folded Paper Prisms
 
This page is being used to collect information about the history of folded paper prisms from regular starting shapes, whether cut or uncut, single-sheet or modular. Please contact me if you know any of this information is incorrect or if you have any other information that should be added. Thank you.

Information about the construction of cut and fold prisms from irregular nets can be found here.

Information about square prisms with closed ends (ie Cubes and Cuboids) can be found here.

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1890

Diagrams for a series of open-ended prisms appear in 'Exercises Methodiques de Travaux Manuels' by Jean Boogaerts, which was published in Belgium and France in 1890.

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