FRACTURED STAR

Design and diagrams by RAAD, 2018/2020

The following design and diagrams are the intellectual property
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1. Make valley folds from corner 2. Bring the edges of the hexagon to 3. Bring the edges to the nearest
to corner. the center. Unfold. creases made in step 2. Do not
crease all the way. Unfold.

6. Make a mountain fold by bringing a folded 5. Mountain fold the corners of the 4. Bring the edges to the farthest
edge to meet the two marked intersections. hexagon. parallel creases made in step 2.
The new crease will cross the points of the Unfold.
two nearest folded triangles. Unfold.

7. Fold back along the nexus of 8. Create small creases across 9. Make a hexagonal twist fold.
creases created in the previous the small kite-shaped regions
steps. Unfold. near the edges of the model.

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Result.

10. Rotate the inner hexagon 45o to the right.

11. Bring a corner of the 12. Open out the paper around the squash-folded 13. Result. Fold the flap back
central hexagon to the center, triangle and rearrange the layers to form a up to repeat on the other
spreading the layers diamond. You may want to partially unfold the corners.
underneath. model.

14. Fold the corners of the hexagon to the Repeat steps 11-12 on the
center, working around the model and other corners of the hexagon.
revealing the diamond-shaped layers
underneath.

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 15. Lock the final diamond by tucking Result.
its triangle under the first diamond.

16. Using the creases made in

earlier steps, make the model
slighlty 3D. Pay attention to the
creases around the star.
(It helps to look at a photo of the
model.)

17. Continue sculpting the model to form the 18. Slowly flatten the model, making additional
outermost points of the star. The creases valley folds near the 6 points of the smaller
shown are repeated symmetrically on star.
both sides of each point.

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