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I have been folding origami since I was very young. It's one of the things I've never lost interest in. These are some of the things I've made lately. I've been getting into modular origami lately, but I still love the traditional stuff. (Links go to diagrams - mostly PDF!) Origami with Jasmine - The Playlist This is 270 unassembled sonobe units, and the completed geodesic sphere. I usually don't count the units before assembly, but I wanted to see what a pile of 270 sonobe units might look like, and this model is complicated enough that I wanted to make sure I had it exactly right. Three linked cubes made from Robert Neale's Penultimate Module (90-degree units) Four intersecting equilateral triangles A modular dodecahedron with curved edges - this is a really great long and skinny hexagon unit, but it's tricky to fold and not very versatile A buckyball made from Robert Neale's Penultimate Module (Both hexagon and pentagon units are used in some cases each end of the unit having a different angle) A dragon - AFAIK, I invented this myself when I was 8 or 9 years old - I didn't learn it from anywhere at least, but it's a trivial variation on the basic crane A moth folded from foil paper - very tricky (Robert Lang - can be found in his book Origami Insects, and a similar moth is in John Montroll's Origami for the Enthusiast - if you are looking at this page and you do not own these books, you need to get them!) A dodecahedron made from Robert Neale's Penultimate Module (108-degree units)
An icosahedron made from Robert Neale's Penultimate Module (60-degree units) - The tetrahedron and hexahedron can be made from the same 60-degree units. A moth made from normal paper - it has too many folds, so it ripped a little (Robert Lang - can be found in his book Origami Insects, and a similar moth is in John Montroll's Origami for the Enthusiast - if you are looking at this page and you do not own these books, you need to get them!) Five intersecting plus signs, or crosses Some small objects made from sonobe unit variations, and a tetrahedron made from Robert Neale's Penultimate Module (60-degree units) A sonobe variation I came up with one day A small sonobe ball and a wild looking 'thingy' A tetrahedron made from a tricky 60-degree unit and a 'crystal' made from three sonobe units |