Making an Origami Rubik's snake

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Making an Origami Rubik's snake

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There are a noticeable lack of origami puzzles that move/transform. I have seen origami recreations of other puzzles such as the burr puzzle and box puzzles. My idea is to create some sort of modular version of the Rubik s snake. Here is a link:

http://www.amazon.com/Color-RainbowTwis ... pd_sim_t_4

My main obstacle it's creating a completely flush rotational joint incorporated into a row of right triangular prisms. Any models that use a comparable mechanic or anybody with general input?
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I've always loved the Rubiks Snake, so I'd be very happy to see an origami interpretation of it.
I don't really have any advice to give you on how to go about designing it though.
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This is the sort of thing Charles Santee would fold, you should contact him, his name is firstfold on the forum.
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Here is a model that could be used as a rotational joint. It has potential for a number of diferent applications:

Thank's TheRush12 for this idea.

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In "13 Thoki Yenn Orikata" it is said that you can do a Rubick's Snake by joining "half cubes" with a string.
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I had actually thought of using an elastic shoe string but making the structure entirely out of paper is much more challenging and for me much more fun.

Here is what I have come up with – so Far.

http://youtu.be/BbvcIrD9wGQ



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Well done firstfold! That's amazing!
Will you be releasing any video or diagrams of how to fold them?
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Nice work firstfold. Those are really cool.
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Santee’s Swivel
Here are instructions for folding “Santee’s Swivel” which can be used to make an origami version of a variety of geometric puzzles, games, and kinetic sculptures.






This swivel can be attached to “Pleated Prisms” to make the constructions desired. Here are instructions for Two different pleated Prisms:




Finally here are some examples of using both the “Santee Swivel” and the “Pleated Prisms” for making kinetic puzzles – et al.






More to come ! ! !
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After making videos on how to construct the snake, I thought that someone would take this challenge on and fold and fold the full 24 prism snake. But since that hasn’t happened, I decided to do it myself.

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Re: Making an Origami Rubik's snake

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I guess I missed this thread since I was away from origami for a bit :P

Anyway, Yutaka Naito has made one in 2013:
https://twitter.com/SquareOrigami/statu ... 8013711360
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you can see the mechanism on the ORIST (Tokyo University's Origami Club) webpage:
http://orist.tiyogami.com/2013mf.html
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I think it's basically what firstfold created but Yutaka made the pivot and housing from 1 piece of paper.
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Fantastic, I had not seen the Yutaka Naito model until now. I wonder when he first made that model and if there are any videos of the model or of it's construction. Does anyone have contact with him?
I will try to contact him through Twitter, but my skill with twitter is very limited.

I did do a web search for models of this type in 2013 but did not find anything.

I think we need a list of people who do mechanical / moving origami constructions.
The first on the list should be Giles Towning of the British origami society. His zipper model is fantastic.
Next I would add Assia and David Brill with the most recent creation of the Curlicue. For a number of moving models see Yoshihide Momotani. I know I'm misspelling names here please correct my mistakes. My age (70) is getting the better of my memory.

Thanks again for the information.
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A puzzle with multiple solutions - Can another level (a different colored spot) be added. This is a substantial challenge.

Can you make and solve this puzzle?
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