Modular Origami Instructions - Open Frame 1

Stephen Cavilia
September 14, 2008
Contents
1 Information 1
1.1 Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2 Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2 Folding modules 2
3 Assembly 3
1 Information
This is an edge-type module that can make 3-dimensional shapes with square and equilateral triangle faces.
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Copyright 2008 Stephen Cavilia. Questions and comments should be sent to sac+origami@atomicradi.us.
This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
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1.1 Acknowledgements
Module design taken from: Fus`e, Tomoko. Unit Origami: Multidimensional Transformations. Japan Publi-
cations, 1990.
Tools used for creating these instructions: Inkscape, GIMP, LaTeX/TeX4ht.
1.2 Links
All folding diagrams on one page: SVG PNG (with assembly photo)
Photo gallery including some models built with this module
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2 Folding modules
Each module is made from one sheet of square paper.
Figure 1: Crease paper in half vertically and fold top and bottom to center
Figure 2: Turn over and fold bottom right corner up
Figure 3: Fold top left corner down
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Figure 4: Fold small aps in
Figure 5: Turn over and fold bottom half up
Figure 6: Fold right end forward and left end backward
3 Assembly
Each module connects to four others by inserting a point of one module into a pocket of another as in 7.
Modules are arranged into rings of three or four edges to build any polyhedron with square or equilateral
triangle faces, or a combination of both (cube, icosahedron, snub cube, etc.)
Document Identication
docid=sac-ori-mod-of1; docrev=4; sysrev=2
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Figure 7: Insert end point into pocket to join two modules
Figure 8: Three modules joined in a triangle
Figure 9: Four modules joined in a square
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