Columbus Cubes (David Mitchell)
My previous experiments with David Mitchell's cubes introduced me to his Origami Heaven site. These are his comments on his Columbus cube developed from the well known Paul Jackson cube:
"I realised that inverting just one corner made it possible to use the resulting form, which I christened the Columbus Cube, as a macromodule to create stacks and other interesting sculptural forms.
The name Columbus Cube is a reference to the famous story of the Egg of Columbus (see Wikipedia page of this title) which I remember hearing at primary school. A similar story is told about Filippo Brunelleschi, but, to my ears at least, the name the Brunelleschi Cube does not have quite the same ring to it."
For this week's Macro Monday challenge of STACK I decided to try this. Of course getting it to fit into the group's three inch rule required some experimentation and I could see right away that the cubes in this size were going to present a challenge for stacking. In retrospect I should have added a bead or something heavy at least to the bottom one to give it some weight. In this size there wasn't enough surface area left for the stack to hold well.
Added to that, I used three sheets of origami paper to form the backdrop and while two of them were anchored to a bit of card, they kept getting bumped and knocking over the stack. It actually took me longer to build the stacks than it took to fold the cubes. The paper I used was tant. Interesting to note that the blue sheet felt floppier than the other two colours. I suppose that has something to do with the dies used.
After photographing the requisite 3 cubes, I experimented with adding to the stack and was unable to get a fourth one to stay without weights. Perhaps another day I will try it when I have paper to waste.
The finished tower is shown in the first comment.
Thanks to Evan Zotl for the video tutorial which was very helpful.
Columbus Cubes (David Mitchell)
My previous experiments with David Mitchell's cubes introduced me to his Origami Heaven site. These are his comments on his Columbus cube developed from the well known Paul Jackson cube:
"I realised that inverting just one corner made it possible to use the resulting form, which I christened the Columbus Cube, as a macromodule to create stacks and other interesting sculptural forms.
The name Columbus Cube is a reference to the famous story of the Egg of Columbus (see Wikipedia page of this title) which I remember hearing at primary school. A similar story is told about Filippo Brunelleschi, but, to my ears at least, the name the Brunelleschi Cube does not have quite the same ring to it."
For this week's Macro Monday challenge of STACK I decided to try this. Of course getting it to fit into the group's three inch rule required some experimentation and I could see right away that the cubes in this size were going to present a challenge for stacking. In retrospect I should have added a bead or something heavy at least to the bottom one to give it some weight. In this size there wasn't enough surface area left for the stack to hold well.
Added to that, I used three sheets of origami paper to form the backdrop and while two of them were anchored to a bit of card, they kept getting bumped and knocking over the stack. It actually took me longer to build the stacks than it took to fold the cubes. The paper I used was tant. Interesting to note that the blue sheet felt floppier than the other two colours. I suppose that has something to do with the dies used.
After photographing the requisite 3 cubes, I experimented with adding to the stack and was unable to get a fourth one to stay without weights. Perhaps another day I will try it when I have paper to waste.
The finished tower is shown in the first comment.
Thanks to Evan Zotl for the video tutorial which was very helpful.