Since making my last cube, I have made a few more cubes from 12 sheets of paper. All are from the book ‘Modular Origami Polyhedra‘ . This one is a Sonobe Cube formed from Decoration Box modules. We start off folding as for the decoration box module and then add a few more folds to get the final module. I first tried this model from 2-inch squares. Quite a tough job!! Folding these thin creases [Continued..]
As I had mentioned yesterday, I tried out the modular cube variation, this one in orange. The assembly is the same as the modular cube. The only change, in fact, is the way the initial fold is done, so that the reverse of the paper becomes visible. So it is a good idea to use paper coloured on both sides, in contrasting colours. I preferred using single-sided orange coloured paper. I think it has turned [Continued..]
The decoration and modular boxes from the book ‘Modular Origami Polyhedra’ are beautiful and very tempting! The boxes are all cubes made from 12 modular units. They are quite easy to make as well. And I love the little windows in the cubes. I had previously tried out the original decoration box and was quite pleased with the results. This time, I tried out the first of the modular cubes, which is actually a variation [Continued..]
Carmen Sprung must be one of the few origami artists who uses paper in ratios involving square root(√) values! One of the previous Carmen Sprung’s designs that I had worked on was the √3 Schachtel, which used paper in the ratio of x:√3x. The Mennorode Star uses paper in the same ratio ie., x:√3x. In the diagram, she has also explained how to get this size, from a square sheet of paper. The design is [Continued..]
The last of my cubes is the Decoration Box, designed by Lewis Simon in the book ‘Modular Origami Polyhedra’. The cube is made from 12 squares and is the original decoration box. Variations made from half a square, dollar bills can also be done. In case you do not own this book, a preview is available on google books. And one of the preview pages is the instructions to the decoration box. So try it out and I [Continued..]