"Unfathomable" (Byriah Loper)
"Unfathomable" 480 units
In my hand. (This is quite large, even our of 1.0" wide paper.)
This is a rough prototype of a rather ambitious project I have had in mind for a year or two.
The initial project I had in mind was a compound of 15 truncated octahedra, but 360 units into that project I realized I made a mistake in the symmetry for the individual frames- each frame in a 15 truncated octahedra compound would have to representative of two 2-fold axes of an icosahedron, but the symmetry I had arranged the base around was for a 30 compound- 2 frames together would be required to make the above described symmetry.
So consider this a fallback project.
What I ended up creating here is a woven solid from a 360 unit base. It is difficult to describe geometrically, which is why I opted not to attempt something cumbersome in naming.
The weaving here actually wasn't too bad, at least for me, though assembly was a bit challenging.
I still have my sights set on making the original compound I had in mind, or possibly even keeping the symmetry of the base here and opting for a doubled frame constructions for the representation of each pair of opposite two-fold axes.
At this point, I suppose it would be fair to call this the most complicated wireframe ever designed, although honestly, it didn't seem that bad- perhaps my techniques for assembly have improved to such an extent as to make something like this fairly straightforward. ;)
Designed by me. (6 different paper proportions)
Folded out of copy paper.
"Unfathomable" (Byriah Loper)
"Unfathomable" 480 units
In my hand. (This is quite large, even our of 1.0" wide paper.)
This is a rough prototype of a rather ambitious project I have had in mind for a year or two.
The initial project I had in mind was a compound of 15 truncated octahedra, but 360 units into that project I realized I made a mistake in the symmetry for the individual frames- each frame in a 15 truncated octahedra compound would have to representative of two 2-fold axes of an icosahedron, but the symmetry I had arranged the base around was for a 30 compound- 2 frames together would be required to make the above described symmetry.
So consider this a fallback project.
What I ended up creating here is a woven solid from a 360 unit base. It is difficult to describe geometrically, which is why I opted not to attempt something cumbersome in naming.
The weaving here actually wasn't too bad, at least for me, though assembly was a bit challenging.
I still have my sights set on making the original compound I had in mind, or possibly even keeping the symmetry of the base here and opting for a doubled frame constructions for the representation of each pair of opposite two-fold axes.
At this point, I suppose it would be fair to call this the most complicated wireframe ever designed, although honestly, it didn't seem that bad- perhaps my techniques for assembly have improved to such an extent as to make something like this fairly straightforward. ;)
Designed by me. (6 different paper proportions)
Folded out of copy paper.