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Klappentext This manual features 17 easy-to-master projects involving the Platonic solids: the tetrahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron. Includes detailed diagrams and photos of all the completed models. Inhaltsverzeichnis Pictures of the Platonic Solids1. Background What is Modular Origami? What is the connection between modular origami and polyhedra? What is a polyhedron? What are the Platonic Solids? Short history of the Platonic Solids and Connections with math, science and art References, Links and Origami Societies2. Making the Models Definitions of Symbols Waterbomb or Triangle Base Triangles Hexagons3. Cubes The Jackson Cube The Sonobe Cube The Tile Cube Lewis Simon-Bennett Arnstein Cube with Windows4. Tetrahedra Simple chain of four equilateral triangles from a square Equilateral triangle module from a hexagon Equilateral triangle edge module5. Octahedra Bob Neale's octahedron 6-piece octahedron skeleton Lewis Simon's original 2-piece Gyroscope module from a square Equilateral triangle module from a hexagon Equilateral triangle edge module6. Dodecahedra Bob Neale-Lewis Simon 108 degree module Lewis Simon's 2-piece Gyroscope module from a triangle Simon Gurkewitz' Dimpled Dodecahedron7. Icosahedra Equilateral triangle module from a hexagon Equilateral triangle edge module
