Author: wonko

649: (99/365) Brill’s Double Cube

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I am such a fan of David Brill’s work:

His command of seemingly impossible geometry is complimented by the works of Francis Ow, the designer of the other “Double Cube” I have folded – a torturous skeletal structure. Continue reading →

648: (98/365) Floral Vase

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It is rare that a simple bit of geometry is so lovely but this floral pot combines glorious proportion and an efficient use of the sheet:

A simple(ish) twirl causes the vase shape. I must work out how to fold this without the pre-creasing scars as I think this would look beautiful in large format hand-made paper. Continue reading →

645: (95/365) Peacock

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A model I had mastered as a child was the only Peacock I had seen folded until fairly recently:

This is Edwin Corrie’s Peacock, a magic little model that makes a tight efficient little body out of one corner of the square leaving lots of paper for the fan-shaped tail. Continue reading →

644: (94/365) Picnic at Hanging Rock

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While in regional Victoria, in the vicinity of the Macedon Ranges, it seemed wrong to leave Hanging Rock off our agenda. Back in the 70’s, there was an important Australian movie made called “Picnic at Hanging Rock”:

A fiction/mystery, it involved the mysterious disappearance of some school girls at the rock, after they had a picnic. We visited, climbed and were not lost, thankfully, but by sheer coincidence we visited on the 50th anniversary of the book, and also by good chance they were filming a mini-serialisation of the same story in the woods we walked through.

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643: (93/365) Square Bear

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Australia do not really have bears, well, nothing that is actually a bear but this charming model needed to be folded so folded it I did:

This is Edwin Corrie’s Square Bear, a charming model that is relatively simple but demonstrative of form. Continue reading →

642: (92/365) No Luck Involved

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This fold was folded on our 34th wedding anniversary, chosen because a long and happy relationship is not reliant on luck:

This dice is clever is a little obscure – rather than traditional dots each face has a partial coverage of colour.

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640: (90/365) Stellated Rhombic Dodecahedron

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Now I for one like stellated geometry – taking regular solids and adding pointy things is very satisfying:

The pointy things on this solid are rhomboid – so not strictly regular pyramidal but 4-sided none the less. Continue reading →

637: (87/365) Cyclonic Spiral

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Currently, North Queensland is being beaten up by Cyclone “Debbie”:

Australian cyclones are huge. As weather systems go, we do them big down under and “Debbie” was once a category 4 (which is nearly Category 5, for the folks at home) which on a scale of “is that a cloud” to “fuck, most of my town is missing” is right up there. I hope all in the storm zone are safe, having lived through some pretty harrowing cyclones in my time it is not fun. Continue reading →