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Nombre: Kusudama Dodecaedro

Diseñador: Jaime Niño Bernal

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Nombre : Gran Dodecaedro

Diseñador: Jaime Niño Bernal

 

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Unidades: 30

Tamaño del papel: cuadrados 10 cm

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Following Kwangwook Hur idea, but without glue.

 

Paper: kraft simil, 1 cm wide strips.

 

Using 6 modules joints designed by Heinz Strobl for tthe outer joints. Kwangwook link:

 

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Nombre: Kusudama Estrella Molino

Diseñador: Jaime Niño Bernal

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Diseñado y plegado por mí. Este modelo esta construido con 30 hojas cuadradas unidas sin pegamento.

  

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Nombre: Dodecaedro squeezer

 

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Unidades: 30 Cuadrados

 

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NAME : OPTIMUM

UNITS : 30 pcs sqrs ( 1.1111111 cm )

DESIGNER : Ekaterina Lukasheva

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Design by Masha Athanasiadi

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30 Units

Ratio 1 : 5,2

My final size: 10,5 cm

Diagram: Kusudama Bouquet No. 10

NO NAME : ???

UNITS : 30 sqr pcs ( 1.55555556 cm )

DESIGNER : Honyang Zhang

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Nombre: Dodecaedro Módulo Sonobe

 

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Unidades: 90 Cuadrados (60 módulos rojos, 30 módulos azules)

 

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Spigelia

Design by Masha Athanasiadi

Folded by Annfoldingpaper

30 Units

Ratio 5 : √3

My final size: 9 cm

Diagram: Kusudama Bouquet No. 19

Three rings connected via hexapod...

Nombre: Tron

Diseñador: Jaime Niño Bernal

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Diseñado y plegado por mí. Esta construido con 30 hojas cuadradas. Su estructura corresponde a un Dodecaedro Estrellado Davinciano. Este poliedro resulta de la combinación de un dodecaedro regular y doce pirámides pentagonales de Johnson. También representa la segunda estelación del dodecaedro. #origami #origamimodular #Papiroflexiamodular #Papiroflexia #Dodecaedroestarelladodavinciano #Dodecaedroestarelladodavincianoorigami #Solidosorigami

No glue, paper 130 gsm

NAME : CARMENS STAR GLOBE

UNITS : 30 rectangle pcs + 60 sqrs pieces

DESIGNER : TINE BLASEK

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I finally got the right clue thanks to the photo given by the post of the author :))

 

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Nombre: Kusudama Ball

Módulo: Generic Edge Unit

Diseñador: Varios autores

 

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Unidades: 24 rectángulos

Proporción 3 : 4

  

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Nombre: Kusudama Estrella Austral

 

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Unidades: 60 Cuadrados

Diseñador: Jaime Niño Bernal

  

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“Soccer Ball” Six Interlocking Pentagonal Prisms + 10 Interlocking Irregular Hexagonal Prisms 270 units

In my hand.

This is a model that I have wanted to design for many years- almost as long as I have been designing wireframes, but I have until the past year lacked both the ability to comprehend how the interior weaving might work, and also the physical tools to implement the design. Neither of those are nearly as much of a problem anymore.

This is a logical extension of prismatic series that Daniel Kwan began so many years ago. A quick look at the 3-fold orthogonal projections of a truncated icosahedron vs a regular icosahedron and dodecahedron (upon which Daniel’s first compounds of 10 triangular prisms and 6 pentagonal prisms are respectively based) will show you exactly why he stopped where he did with prisms. Opposite hexagonal faces are not rotated as an icosahedron’s triangles or a dodecahedron’s pentagons are. Without that rotation, weaving is much more challenging. What to do?

You can force the rotation into the frames themselves so that opposite faces are rotated. I did this in 6 Rhombic Prisms, then modeled the 4 point intersections. (You have to model the intersections because the distortion of twisting a prism works great on the ends of the prism, but as you get towards the middle, the rotation diminishes to nothing.) Or, you can force rotation with wrinkles, as I did in 15 Rhombic Prisms. Crude but effective.

Here, you have hexagonal prisms, which can be “divided” into 2 sets of points where each set represents the vertices of a triangular prism. We already know 10 triangular prisms weaves, so as long as the 2 “triangular prisms” are not the same size (because if they are the same size then they will occupy the same space within the construction, because the midpoint of each edge will be the same distance from the central origin), the compound is weavable. If the “triangular prisms” are not the same size, the consequence with the actual hexagonal prisms is that the faces are irregular because every other vertex is a different distance from the vector which defines the axis of orientation for the prism (ie. the very center of the hexagonal face).

The closer the hexagonal prism is to a triangular prism, the more comfortable the center edges sit, but then you lose the truncated icosahedron in the bargain. Therefore, the goal here was to make the hexagonal prisms as regular as possible to enhance the affect. To do that, I made the prism edges about as thin as I possibly could.

I describe a wireframe compound with more than one type of frame as a “Composition” (not to be confused with composition as the ordering of Euler rotations in 3D), and these are frequently somewhat tacky in my opinion, but I am beginning to see that there may actually be cases in which the use of multiple frame types complement each other. I used variable width edges here to highlight the truncated icosahedral nature, but I also decided to not make them solid so as to obscure the weaving within. I think the compromise was a pretty good one. An octahedral version of this should be possible as well.

Designed by me.

Folded out of copy paper.

 

Name: Raspberry

Designer: Denver Lawson

Units: 30 + 30

Paper: 9,0 х 9,0

Final height: ~ 11,5 cm

Book "Unusual Modulars", p. 22

Olivia Var.

Design by Masha Athanasiadi

Folded by Annfoldingpaper

30 Units

Ratio 5 : √3

My final size: 12 cm

Diagram: Kusudama Bouquet No. 19

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Nombre: Lámpara Cubo

Diseñador: Jaime Niño Bernal

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Unidades: 20 cuadrados (12 uniones, 8 vértices)

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Folded from 30 uncut squares of kami. Belongs to the family of my previous icosahedron posts. Designed recently, diagrams not available. Folding and photo by Anjana Vaidyaraman (WA). #origami #meenakshimukerji #modularorigami #unitorigami #origamiart #origamimath #origamimathmatics #polyhedra #origamimodular #icosahedron #recreationalmaths #recreationalmathematics

Linda

Design by Masha Athanasiadi

Folded by Annette Annfoldingpaper

30 Units

Ratio 5 : 6

My final size: 9,5 cm

Diagram: Kusudama Bouquet No. 19

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Diseñador: Jaime Niño Bernal

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Unidades: 30

Tamaño del papel: 4 cm x 6 cm (1:1,5)

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Nombre: Dodecaedro estrella

 

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Unidades: 90 hojas cuadradas

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Name: Ghiocel

Designer: Natalia Romanenko

Units: 30

Paper: 5*10 cm (1:2)

Final height: ~ 9.5 cm

Joint: no glue

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Nombre: Icosaedro

Diseñador: Jaime Niño Bernal

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This modular origami modular is called “Laus”, designed and folded by me. I worked out a folding sequence I think is good for diagrams, which I hope to make this week. #origami #morigami #modularorigami #origamimodular #origamimandala

Name: Frilled Big Star

Autor: Tomoko Fuse

Photo: Annamaria Colaccino

Joint: nothing

Paper: square

Diagram: Tanteidan Magazine 146

 

Módulo Diseñado por Mío Tsuguwa, Jorge Pardo y plegado por mi. (30 piezas).

| squares | 6 units | no glue |

| Design discovered by Anna Alekseeva |

Instructions: n/a, however, it's very easy to RE

 

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Paeonia Kusudama 30 units

At long last. This kusudama took a bit of work to fold, but I believe that it was well worth the effort.

I had to switch papers during the construction, but I think that both types of paper used here blend together fairly well. This model is both strong and extremely rigid.

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Folded out of uncut 6" squares of kraft and black elephant hide paper.

Name: Organella

Designer: Miyuki Kawamura

Photo: Annamaria Colaccino

Paper size: 1:2

Joint: teorically without glue...

Diagram: Origami Tanteidan Convention 20

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Diseñador: Jaime Niño Bernal

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Flower Dodecahedra 5, 4, and 3, 2006.

From book Origami Inspirations, CRC Press, 2010. That wraps up this series of dodecahedra.

 

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Modular origami, no cuts, no glue, 8 two-tone paper squares, 10 cm x 10 cm.

Designed by Francesco Guarnieri in December 2010

I shared the diagrams: guarnieri-origami.blogspot.com/2022/11/stella-festiva-hol...

Nombre: Cubo

 

Tutorial: youtu.be/Y2Qlyw911Q8

Unidades: 6 hojas cuadradas

 

Diseñador: Jaime Niño Bernal

 

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4 Interlocking Hyperboloidal Self-Interwoven Enneacontakaienneagonal Stars 396 units In my hand.

I have designed a number of interlocking star compounds in the past, but this compound was specifically undertaken to illustrate a conjecture I noted not too long ago, namely that almost any convex polyhedral shape can be accommodated to modelling with polygonal stars if 3 frames weave around each other at each vertex, representative of 3 underlying edges converging at that vertex. Of course, many polyhedra have more than 3 edges joining at some vertices, but a truncation of any such vertex will result in new vertices where 3 units do in fact converge every vertex, and are therefore “modelable” using polygonal stars. By trisecting the edges of existing polyhedra, applying truncations, and using the resulting truncated shape as the basis for a polygonal compound, an enormous number of new compound possibilities are opened up. I decided to test an application of this simple conjecture upon an interesting polyhedral shape with pyritohedral symmetry, a near-miss Johnson Solid called a Pentahexagonal pyritoheptacontatetrahedron. The resulting shape has the following axial whorls: 6 dodecagons, 12 decagons, 56 hexagons, 24 pentagons, 36 quadrilaterals, and 264 triangles, by my calculations. The assembly was a bit more challenging than some of the previous polygonal star compounds I have designed, but overall I think it turned out rather well. This is quite simply a compound of four 99-sided polygon stars, which makes these the largest polygons I have ever worked with and the largest polygons (as far as I know) ever rendered in modular origami.

Designed by me.

Folded out of memo paper.

 

Ten Interlocking Irregular Hyperboloidal Equatorially Truncated Tri-diminished Trapezo-rhombic Dodecahedra 300 units In my hand.

I have been working on this project for the last month or two, but I was able to get it done in time for my birthday today. I designed this on POV-ray, and (rather unusually for me) calculated every angle and proportion for the frames in advance. The design itself begins with one of the unfolded compounds of 10 triangular prisms, which was largely impractical due to its paper proportion ratios. I then added triangular 3-point vertices to the top and bottom triangular faces of the original prisms. Finally I rectified the original equatorial edges of the triangular prisms, and distorted the resulting hexagons in order to avoid intersections. This model reminds me of a larger version of Daniel Kwan's Six Irregular Dodecahedra and really balances irregularity with a "spherical" exterior effect.

This is also the first large wireframe I have assembled a frame at a time in a couple of years, and I must say I enjoyed the process. I can make a cheatsheet if anyone wants to try this.

Designed by me.

Folded out of copy paper. (5 different paper proportions)

Designer: Laura Azcoaga

Folder: Michal Pikula

Paper: 80gsm copy paper (Optix)

Unit: square a, 1.5a, 2a, 2.5a, 3a, 3.5a, rectangle 1:4

48 units

Folded in July 2013

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Video tutorial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynFucf_aLio

OUSA Display 2021

This would have been my display for the Origami USA Convention 2021. All models designed by me within the last year.

Meteor

Design by Masha Athanasiadi

Fold by Annfoldingpaper

30 Units

Ratio 5 : 6

Diagram: Kusudama Bouquet No. 14

Nombre: Triacontaedro Rómbico

Video Tutorial en: youtu.be/KvqH1BfkR-I

Es el mismo proceso de plegado del dodecaedro rómbico, se deben cambiar las proporciones del papel

Enlace en mi Bio

 

Diseñador: Jaime Niño - Adaptación módulo dodecaedro rómbico Nick Robinson

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Unidades: 30 Hojas Proporción 8 : 5

  

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Twelve Interlocking Irregular Hyperboloidal Dodecahedra 360 units In my hand.

It has been a few months since I have done a good complex wireframe design. The general idea for his compound is one I have been thinking about for some time, but I was stirred into action to design this because it is, despite all appearances to the contrary, a dodecahedral equivalent of the compound of 6 Hexahedra I designed most recently. Here, each irregular dodecahedron represents one facial plane of a macro-dodecahedron which interacts with adjacent polygonal faces. There are 4 different types of pentagons in each dodecahedron, 2 of which are regular, and the symmetry of each frame itself is cyclical.

 

Also, on a more personal note, Daniel Kwan's 6 Irregular Dodecahedra was always one of my favorite models- it just has such balance and visual complexity (that is the reason it is the thumbnail photo for the Wireframe Group) . Thus this is in a sense a nod to that design, in my own style. I'm not sure this has the same visual elegance as Daniel's model, but it is certainly more than a match for complexity.

Designed by me.

Folded out copy paper.

Folded from 30 uncut squares of duo paper. Similar to my previous Mandevilla with slightly different size and shape of petals. Designed recently, diagrams not available. Folding and photo by Anjana Vaidyaraman (WA). #origami #meenakshimukerji #modularorigami #unitorigami #origamiart #origamimath #origamimathmatics #polyhedra #origamimodular #icosahedron #recreationalmaths #recreationalmathematics

“K18” 20 Interlocking Tetrahedra #9 120 units

3-fold view.

Another 20 Tetrahedra compound. This compound possesses greater visual distinction in comparison to the previous “K17.” It also has much longer paper proportions, and the edges are spread more evenly throughout the interior volume of the compound.

Designed by me.

Folded out of copy paper. (1:11.0 proportions, q2:60 pockets)

 

OUSA 2022 Display These are the models I would have displayed at the OUSA Convention. All were designed by me within the last year.

Models:

1. Inconceivable

2. Twelve Interlocking Wrinkled Distorted Pentagonal Dipoles

3. Twelve Interlocking Elongated Pentagonally Distorted Dipoles

4. Twelve Interlocking Gyroelongated Digonal Dipyramids

5. Thessalonia Kusudama

6. Capstone Kusudama

7. Twelve Interlocking Gyroelongated Digonal Dipyramids #2

8. Six Intersecting Irregular Hyperboloidal Diminished Elongated Square Cupola

9. Five Interlocking Dodecahedrically Augmented Tetrahedrally Distorted Skew Rhombic Hexahedra

10. Thirty Interlocking Irregular Hyperboloidal Hexagons

11. Susiana Kusudama

12. “Viaducts” Twenty Interlocking Triangles + Self-Interlocking Icosidodecaedron

13. Thirty Interlocking Irregular Hyperboloidal Octagons

14. Twelve Interlocking Isosceles Triangles

15. “K12” Sixty Interlocking Triangles

16. Thirty Interlocking Tetrahedra

17. Eight Interlocking Dodecahedra

 

“Bauhaus” Cubic Puzzle 154 units 3-fold view. (This is my favorite view.)

I first planned to design a tube puzzle like this several years ago, and started on a provisional project then. However, after running into some design challenges I gave up for the time and set the project aside. I took the time to renew it over winter break and this was the result.

Each tube here is a custom designed pattern, and as a result they do not even have the same number of units each, but rather vary from 16-19 units per tube. The puzzle holds together very tentatively on its own, but adding the extra purple “loops” (two of which are unlike the other ten) makes the model very solid and durable. The exact pattern of the puzzle is fairly arbitrary, and could be modified to make a different puzzle. Since I designed the puzzle piece by piece, assembly was not hard, but I could imagine that simply giving the completed tubes to someone else, it could take them a few minutes to figure out the relationship.

The tubes are incredibly labor intensive- about 2 hours was required to design each piece. The nickname’s origin is from the 20th century design style, which I think is at least loosely reflected in the styling of this model.

Designed by me.

Folded out of copy paper.

 

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