Simona Gallina
Gear flower
Gear flower... because I do not know if it is more similar to a gear or to a flower. Made rotocombining 1216 of my "boring unit" (diag on the way). I wish it was folded in single sheet but this is not the case. The "boring unit" is named after the terrible boredom that causes... terrible boredom... really...
While folding I kept thinking how incredibly boring it is as a sequence, I struggled to finish ... I thought that a so boring unit could not produce a result so interesting!
Anyway...
12 to 16 to 18 boring units
12 to 16 to 18 copy paper sheets (A6 format was used here)
No glue
The model is rather stable and very useful ... it can be used as an apple holder (as I saw that some famous folders do ;-D) or as a frisbee for your dog ... in flight it will not open but you have to throw it quite strongly.
Better with 12 16 units: first because it is more stable, second because there are fewer boring units to fold.
Perfect for sleepless folders: effect guaranteed!
I wish you this week not to underestimate the boring parts because then, maybe, the whole set could be enjoyable. As they say in the gestalt theory: (thankfully) "the whole is more than the sum of its parts. "
Happy feast to those who will celebrate these days :-)
Many thanks to Hans-Werner Guth for having inspired me about modular flowers (stars, pinwheels ... however you want to define these "rotorigami")
Diagram available
Gear flower
Gear flower... because I do not know if it is more similar to a gear or to a flower. Made rotocombining 1216 of my "boring unit" (diag on the way). I wish it was folded in single sheet but this is not the case. The "boring unit" is named after the terrible boredom that causes... terrible boredom... really...
While folding I kept thinking how incredibly boring it is as a sequence, I struggled to finish ... I thought that a so boring unit could not produce a result so interesting!
Anyway...
12 to 16 to 18 boring units
12 to 16 to 18 copy paper sheets (A6 format was used here)
No glue
The model is rather stable and very useful ... it can be used as an apple holder (as I saw that some famous folders do ;-D) or as a frisbee for your dog ... in flight it will not open but you have to throw it quite strongly.
Better with 12 16 units: first because it is more stable, second because there are fewer boring units to fold.
Perfect for sleepless folders: effect guaranteed!
I wish you this week not to underestimate the boring parts because then, maybe, the whole set could be enjoyable. As they say in the gestalt theory: (thankfully) "the whole is more than the sum of its parts. "
Happy feast to those who will celebrate these days :-)
Many thanks to Hans-Werner Guth for having inspired me about modular flowers (stars, pinwheels ... however you want to define these "rotorigami")
Diagram available