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Modular Origami — Spiky Balls / Stars and Stellated Polyhedra
Models folded and photographed by Michał Kosmulski. Modules designed by their respective authors.
Click on images to enlarge them. Links in image titles lead to pages with more information about each particular object.
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Spiked octahedronMade from Sonobe module (12 modules). |
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3D cross (extended cube)Made from Michał Kosmulski's Outdoor Origami Meeting Module (OOMM) (12 modules). |
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Spiked octahedronMade from Michał Kosmulski's PVM (Pyramid Vertex Module) (14 modules: 8 vertex units and 6 connector units). |
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Octahedron
Made from the sunken variant of
Michał Kosmulski's PVM (Pyramid Vertex Module), inverted unit assembly (14 modules: 8 sunken vertex units and 6 connector units). |
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Spiked octahedronMade from Michał Kosmulski's Simple Edge Unit (SEU), Sonobe-like variant made of square paper (24 modules). This model demonstrates the rotated-link connection method. It requires twice as many units as regular Sonobe or SEU assembly, but each colored patch on the finished model can be a different color whereas in other connection methods, each colored patch shares its color with another adjacent patch. |
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Spiked icosahedronMade from Nick Robinson's trimodule (30 modules). |
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Spiked icosahedronMade from a variant of Sonobe module (30 modules). |
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Spiked icosahedronMade from Michał Kosmulski's Simple Edge Unit (SEU), Sonobe-like variant made of square paper (30 modules). This model demonstrates the SEU-link connection method: it is completely plain, without any decoration on the outside. |
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Spiked icosahedronMade from Michał Kosmulski's Simple Edge Unit (SEU), Sonobe-like variant made of square paper (30 modules). This model demonstrates the reversed-SEU linking method: a single crease is the unit's only visible decoration. |
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Spiked icosahedronMade from Michał Kosmulski's Simple Edge Unit (SEU), Sonobe-like variant made of square paper (30 modules). This model demonstrates the Sonobe-link connection method: the model is decorated with a pattern similar to the one found on models made from classical Sonobe unit. |
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Spiked icosahedronMade from Michał Kosmulski's Sturdy Edge Module (StEM) used as a face unit (30 modules). The unit is a variant of an edge unit; I call usage like this the “face variant” since the unit covers a face rather than an edge of the solid. When I invented the module, I though it was very original, but soon I learned it was actually pretty common and had been independently designed by many others before (it’s just a variant of the classic Ow’s edge unit). Dave Mitchell invented this “face configuration” (under the name Cube-Corner Star) as early as 1993. |
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Spiked icosahedronMade from Moreno's unit (30 modules). Originally I designed this as my custom unit, but later found out that it had been published before under the name of Moreno's Unit. |
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Chopin’s grand pianoThis model is actually a spiked icosahedron. Made from Michał Kosmulski's Outdoor Origami Meeting Module (OOMM) (30 modules). |
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Spiked dodecahedron
Made from a modified version of
Francis Ow's 60 degree module (scroll down the linked page for original unit folding instructions) (30 modules). |
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Tom Hull's Five intersecting tetrahedra (FIT) |
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Cosmos ballMade from M. Mukhopadhyay's cosmos ball module (30 modules). |
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Spiked icosahedronMade from modified M. Mukhopadhyay's umbrella dodecahedron module (30 modules). |
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Great stellated icosahedron (stellated dodecahedron)
Made from M. Mukhopadhyay's super simple isosceles triangle module (module also attributed to Jeannine Mosely and Roberto Morassi) (30 modules). |
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Small stellated icosahedronMade from M. Mukhopadhyay's super simple isosceles triangle module (module also attributed to Jeannine Mosely and Roberto Morassi) (30 modules). |
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Spiked and finned icosahedron
Made from
Nick Robinson's
trimodule (60 modules). |
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Spiked icosahedronMade from Robert Neale's penultimate module (60 modules). |
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Spiked icosahedronMade from Michał Kosmulski's Sturdy Edge Module (StEM) (60 modules). The second picture shows the interior of the model against a strong backlight, displaying how the modules are connected in an X-ray view. |
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Spiked pentakis dodecahedronMade from Sonobe module (60 modules). There is one spike placed over two adjacent faces of the pentakisdodecahedron in this model. I haven't checked if the angles actually add up, so it might be that this model can only exist because of imprecise folding. |
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Spiked pentakis dodecahedron
Made from
Michał Kosmulski's Simple Edge Unit (SEU), Sonobe-like variant made of square paper (60 modules). |
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Spiked icosidodecahedronMade from Charles Esseltine's TSU module (60 modules). |
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Snub cubeMade from Tomoko Fuse's Little Turtle module (60 modules). |
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Spiked icosahedronThe structure of this model is similar to spiked icosahedra made with variants of the Sonobe unit and other similar modules. However, in the case of BBU a three-unit assembly is needed in place of each individual Sonobe unit, increasing the total number of units needed from 30 to 90. Made from Michał Kosmulski's BBU (Building Block Unit) (90 modules: 30 × D2, 30 × A2, 30 × A4). |
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Spiked fullerene (truncated icosahedron)Made from M. Mukhopadhyay's super simple isosceles triangle module (module also attributed to Jeannine Mosely and Roberto Morassi) (90 modules). |
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Spiked dodecahedron with pyramids on pentagonal facesMade from M. Mukhopadhyay's super simple isosceles triangle module (module also attributed to Jeannine Mosely and Roberto Morassi) (90 modules). |
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RhombicosidodecahedronMade from Tomoko Fuse's Little Turtle module (120 modules). |
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Spiked rhombicosidodecahedronMade from M. Mukhopadhyay's super simple isosceles triangle module (module also attributed to Jeannine Mosely and Roberto Morassi) (120 modules). |
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Spiked rhombicosidodecahedron with pyramids on pentagonal facesMade from M. Mukhopadhyay's super simple isosceles triangle module (module also attributed to Jeannine Mosely and Roberto Morassi) (180 modules). |
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Spiked snub dodecahedron with pyramids on pentagonal facesMade from modulo tornillo (210 modules). |
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