Origami Soma Cube
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Origami soma cube. Origami eleusis and the soma cube is the second volume in martin gardner s new mathematical library based on his enormously popular scientific american columns. I m using 12cm x 12cm in the video. Fold a soma cube.
A firstorigamiversionofthe soma cube was introduced by steve biddle in his book the new ori gami. Steve biddle uses sonobé units to produce the pieces and ar rives at the impressive number of 120 units. This is a soma cube.
A puzzle origami invented by piet hein and diagrammed by sebastian m. Diagrams are not available yet. Maarten van gelder has developed a soma cube whose pieces are each folded from a single square.
A soma cube is a 3x3x3 cube. It consists of seven puzzle pieces. It s basically a puzzle with tetris like blocks that eventually forms a 3x3x3 cube when put together correctly.
He uses box pleating techniques developed. The pieces are then assembled into a three by three by three cube. To fold this origami you ll need 27 square sheets of paper with the same size.
Making a soma cube requires folding 27 sonobe cubes then combining them in groups of either three or four into seven pieces. I made this as a christmas present for the teacher whom i help i m his ta. Watch the video to learn how to make it.
Invented by piet hein and diagrammed by sebastian m. The author in consultation with experts has added updates to all the chapters to challenge and fascinate a new generation of readers. In this video i fold the last unit if you wish to make it you can get the diagrams off my website.
You can also make other different shapes with the blocks but the cube is the main shape. This one is made entirely out of paper. You can make the ones that i did or you can find some other combination of puzzle.
There are hundreds of different shapes that you can. It s a fun toy to kill time and takes about 10 minutes to assemble.
