Category : Modular-renditions
Square Box (Tomoko Fuse)
3rd Jul 2011 0

Creator: Tomoko Fuse Folder: Grzegorz Bubniak Photo: Grzegorz Bubniak Diagram: Origami Boxes CP: Description: The box is folded from eight squares.

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Makalu (Robert Lang)
13th Sep 2005 0

Creator: Robert Lang Folder: Grzegorz Bubniak Photo: Grzegorz Bubniak Diagrams: OrigamiUSA Annual Collection 2002 CP: Description: During holidays I was participating in origami picnic organized by Krystyna and Wojtek Burczyks, where folded modules of Robert Lang’s Makalu – another interwoven modular model where shown to me. I really wouldn’t forgive myself if I didn’t check how they are done

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Soma Cube (traditional)
3rd Apr 2005 0

Folder: Grzegorz Bubniak Folding method: card folding method Photo: Grzegorz Bubniak Diagrams:Here CP: Description: Soma Cube is a three-dimmensional puzzle invented by Piet Hein. I used card folding method to fold the elements of Soma Cube. The goal of this puzzle is to assemble elements into a cube. This is fairly easy, however there are many more challenging figures that can be assembled from these elements. Quite sizeable list of figures can be found on this site.

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Menger Sponge

Folder: Grzegorz Bubniak Folding method: Card folding method Photo: Grzegorz Bubniak Diagrams:Here CP: Description: This model is a fractal which is the three-dimensional analog of the SierpiƄski carpet. It was folded from rectangles 2 by 1 cm. There is 3 456 units in it. It was really difficult to assemble them because of miniature size of units, so the tweezers were indispensable. Menger sponge (depth 3) would contain 66 048 units. That would be the real challange.

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Egg (Heinz Strobl)

Creator: Heinz Strobl Folder: Grzegorz Bubniak Folding method: Snapology Photo: Grzegorz Bubniak Diagrams:here CP: Description: The model was folded from paper strips of various proportions with the method called snapology and widely popularized by Heinz Strobl

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K2 (Robert Lang)

Creator: Robert Lang Folder: Grzegorz Bubniak Photo: Grzegorz Bubniak Diagrams: OrigamiUSA Annual Collection 2002; BOS Convention 2002 Spring CP: Description: After I saw K2 in Robert Lang’s gallery the urge to reach it forced me to modify 60 degree unit used for FIT and to find the proportions of the rectangle (15:2 centimeters in my case) by trial and error. With the modules I managed to assembly the model which was extremaly difficult, so I suggest folding FIT before.

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SIPP (Daniel Kwan)
4th Dec 2004 0

Creator: Daniel Kwan Folder: Grzegorz Bubniak Photo: Grzegorz Bubniak Diagrams: CP: Description: You can make out Six Intersecting Pentagonal Prisms (SIPP) in this model. After I saw it on the internet the desire to fold it was so big that I figured out how to make the modules and fortunately managed to assemble them. I used two types of units – thirty longer and sixty shorter ones.

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Sonobe Variation 5 (Meenakshi Mukerji)
25th Oct 2004 0

Creator: Meenakshi Mukerji Folder: Grzegorz Bubniak Photo: Grzegorz Bubniak Diagram: CP: Description: The solid is a spiky icosahedron based on Meenakshi’s Sonobe Variation 5 unit. We can make out two different platonic solids in this model. If we cut the pyramids off we will get icosahedron (twenty triangular sides) but if we connect vertices we will get dodecahedron (twelve pentagonal sides).

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Torus (Thomas Hull)
25th Oct 2004 0

Creator: Thomas Hull Folder: Grzegorz Bubniak Photo: Grzegorz Bubniak Diagram: Here CP: Description: This time-consuming model was folded from 240 Zig-Zag units. It took me three days to fold it.

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Egg (Rona Gurkewitz)
25th Oct 2004 0

Creator: Rona Gurkewitz Folder: Grzegorz Bubniak Photo: Grzegorz Bubniak Diagram: 3-D Geometric Origami – Modular Polyhedra CP: Description: Model was folded from 30 gyroscope modules, each from an equilateral triangle.

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