Origami Buckyball

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Origami buckyball. Make a origami buckyball a dodecahedron 20 vertices 30 edges 12 faces regular pentagons using three colors so that no two units of the same color touch. To create an origami buckyball you must start with a piece of paper cut into a triangle with each side about two inches long. Subscribe and hit that bell icon to be notified when we upload.

Cut the pieces apart. Instead try cutting normal origami paper the kind that is. Use a laser or rotary paper cutter.

Make the raibow phizz origami buckyball. What you need to make an origami bucky ball. I love puzzles and this challenge took me a few hours to solve.

If you don t know how. In order to solve this puzzle i had to do a little exploration of the materials. If using a laser cutter grab your paper and head over.

Siobhan day thottbot remix. Fold the corner of each side into the middle of the opposite side and then unfold to create creases that will be your guide. 60 paper equilateral triangles see how to make.

For example when making very large buckyballs say with 500 or more units using 3 inch memo cube paper might result in a model too large for one s dorm room. Normal origami paper is useful as well although it needs to be cut down to smaller squares. Now it s time to print out your phizz squares.

Origami buckyball puzzle challenge.