For Xmas, my son Matt gave me a day a page Gary Larson desk calendar. Knowing me, I noticed the tear-off pages were square so, in a moment of madness I decided to fold something with ALL of it:

Exploring scale (and remembering the disaster in finished size that was my last attempt at a torus), I decided a PHIZZ based structure would be fun, with a torus being suitably visually interesting so set about folding units for them from the quartered pages. After 3 months I had enough (360+) to connect up the first torus, then began accumulating units for the planned second.

A longitudinal fold like this requires patience and persistence – making any part of the structure required LOTS of units, so you just gotta wait for the days to go by,

During July, I had enough units to complete the second Torus, deciding they needed to be interlinked, and began to work out HOW to connect up the units while being connected to another torus. Logistically this ramps up the difficulty exponentially – coupled with the fact that I initially connected the loop INSIDE OUT, requiring me to unpick it and invert it before re-joining it.

I am not sure if the inside diameter of the donut hole is wide enough to have 2 torusses passing through it – I _think_ it will be ok with a small amount of squishing, but I guess we will find out in 3 months.

The resultant dual torus chain is visually awesome, the geometry of 5,6 and 7-sided polygon meshes that comprise the curves are really interesting to look at, and it sort of self-supports, making display fun.

Folding over such an elongated period of time is exhausting. Keeping the model save and clean for that time so it all looks like it was made together is also a challenge I am currently working through.

Half way through the journey and i am still keen … we shall see how long that lasts.