geometry

12: A Little Ray of Sunshine

| wonko

It has been fairly wild weather here in Brisbane, oddly as flood levels rise we awoke to bright sunlight – dams and mitigation schemes still to interact with the tides to peak our water levels.

Thought it might be nice to inject a little ray of sunshine into the otherwise bleak situation:This is my first attempt at this model – another exercise in pre-folding where if you get it right, most of teh design just falls into place as if by magic.

I saw demoed on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHMZtIwiWRQ and thought was pretty neat – a lovely geometric that you can have a go at – we need all the sunshine we can get at the moment.

Some development shots:

3: Jackstone

| wonko

This is, in my opinion, a masterpiece of pre-folding, you make one model, unfold it and bend it into another model. I pride myself of folding this from memory – not bad given I have not folded it in at least 15 years.

One piece of paper (photocopy A4 is not great as it frays after 3 or 4 creases on the same line) cut square, no additional cuts, no glue – all class.

Design by Jack Skillman, USA, 1965 (I first saw it in a Robert Harbin “Origami 2” book I own)Jackstone