A rebuild of this model, only with modules of 1/4 the size. I used the same Post-It notes, cut into quarters. The smaller stellated icosahedron is consequently 1/8 the volume of the larger.

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An origami rendering of a six-piece burr puzzle. My original intention was not to make a puzzle; I just wanted to model the overall shape, a stellated rhombic dodecahedron. I was beguiled by this polyhedron (I'd encountered it in a couple of Escher prints when I was a much younger monster), and experimented with various modules of my own design in ( Read more... )

I should also note that I read Jon Ronson's The Men Who Stare at Goats. I wish I had more to say about it ( Read more... )

I read Ernest Hemingway's "Big Two-Hearted River." The last I read of Hemingway was A Farewell to Arms in high school. I think. Maybe I just heard the title somewhere. If I read it, I don't remember any of it ( Read more... )

There is a class of roughly spherical modular origami models referred to as kusudama. Kusudama were originally groupings of flower-shaped origami sewn or glued together, and are considered a precursor to modular origami. (Thanks, Wikipedia.) There are tons of kusudama designs out there; I started with this one because I liked the star shapes formed ( Read more... )

Five intersecting octahedra. They aren't really intersecting, of course, but by using multiple colors of paper, you can give the impression that multiple octahedra are interpenetrating each other. (The photos aren't splendid, but you can kind of make out the effect.) I wanted to do this model with the foil wrapping paper, but the practice piece ( Read more... )

me: Ashy also wonders if Elvis has ever featured on Doctor Who ( Read more... )

So. Interested to learn that they're doing a film version of The Dark Tower, interested that Idris Elba is playing Roland, not especially surprised that many people are going absolutely bugshit over the casting of a black man in this role ( Read more... )

So it was about this time that I realized I had an origami problem. Working in my favor is the fact that origami paper is absurdly expensive. However, I had my eye on a couple of multicolor printer paper packs, which then conveniently went on sale for half off, so I ended up with this:

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This was a test to see if I could build a Soma cube out of Sonobe units. Building a basic cube from these components is straightforward enough, and it seemed to me that they could be used on inside edges just as readily as outside edges, but building an actual model would settle the matter.
Having built it, I found that the Sonobe units forming ( Read more... )