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Macro Mondays theme: Stack
David Mitchell's Columbus Cubes are designed with one inverted corner. The stack starts with the inverted corner down and the other cubes are balanced on top.
Each origami cube is folded from 6 pieces that are 1/16 of a 5.8" square. The backdrop is made from three of the uncut squares. The shown view is just under 3 inches.
More detail can be found in the photo linked in the first comment.
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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.
Long ago and far away. Came cross this old painting today from 1985. At the time I was very inspired by the German new objectivity/ Neue Sachlichkeit movement from between the wars. I was working at Shoreditch Job Centre at the time when it was proper East End and that is me with my clocking on card. Up the workers!
Also in origami-land it is springtime ;-)) This is an old model, but still so beautiful!! This lovely origami daffodil is a design by Ted Norminton.
Diagrams in the book "Classic Origami" - Paul Jackson.
A folded paper form created from Paul Jackson's excellent book 'Folding Techniques for Designers, From Sheet to Form'. I've combined rows of Paul's motif pattern to construct this shape. To keep the structure nice and compact I made the pyramids as small as possible. I used the reversed side of a scalpel blade to crease the paper pre-folding to get a sharp clean edge.
After taking many sample photos it quickly became apparent that the composition was looking a little flat. I boosted the shadows and highlights by using a macro ring light (off camera) to enhance the natural light.
For the 'Macro Monday' - 'Just White Paper' challenge 16th January 2017.