Cuboctahedron Origami
The origami model is often attributed to paul jackson and kenneth kawumara.
Cuboctahedron origami. In geometry a cuboctahedron is a polyhedron with 8 triangular faces and 6 square faces. Here is an easy one the spike ball or spiky cuboctahedron. If you can fold the classic origami pinwheel this one should not give you problems at all.
Technically the polyhedron shown here is a cubohemioctahedron. The origami cuboctahedron can teach you about structure and geometry as well as paper folding. You can think of it as a cube with the corners chopped off.
Origami a paper rhombicuboctahedron how to. You will need eight pieces of origami paper to fold what are called jitterbug modules. This is a step by step video of how to make a cuboctahedron.
Origami a cuboctahedron how to. Origami an icosidodecahedron from curler units how to. The business card cuboctahedron is credited to jeannine mosley.
In modular origami you combine multiple units folded from single pieces of paper into more complicated forms. Business card origami cuboctahedron a cuboctahedron is a 3 dimensional geometric structure with 14 faces 8 triangles and 6 squares. The sonobe unit is a simple example unit from modular origami that is both easy to fold and compatible for constructing a large variety of models.
Learn how to origami this action model made with 8 tung ken lam s jitterbug module. Calendar templates were generated by ralph jones. The cuboctahedron shape is familiar to mathematicians as such the origami form of the polyhedron was discovered independently by many paper artists.
It is related to a cuboctahedron except that the triangles are sunken inwards. Watch this instructional origami video to fold a complex origami cuboctahedron by designer tung kem lam.
