Hi happy origami people.
For some reason Id like to fold a rectangular solid that is not a cube.
I have no idea how to describe it other than it would look like a Scrabble tile - a flattened cube.
Has anyone seen instructions for this?
Has anyone seen instructions for any rectangular solid that is not a cube?
Im working on a basic cube and trying to alter it but naturally my first attempts are not too fruitful.
Thanks
How to make a 3d rectangular solid like a scrabble tile?
Forum rules
READ: The Origami Forum Rules & Regulations
READ: The Origami Forum Rules & Regulations
How to make a 3d rectangular solid like a scrabble tile?
..___ http://creativeobjectworld.com
/\___\ a free-form, text-based, browser-based,
\/___/ real-time, multi-user virtual world
/\___\ a free-form, text-based, browser-based,
\/___/ real-time, multi-user virtual world
Hi there,
I have answered my own question by designing it myself (first origami design woo hoo!)
http://www.wolispace.com/cgi-bin/a.pl?p ... /cube/tile
Basically its a standard cube modified in ways you would not expect.
I will be drawing up some instructions soon so everyone can enjoy making this shape.
Can anyone tell me what this shape might be called?
I have answered my own question by designing it myself (first origami design woo hoo!)
http://www.wolispace.com/cgi-bin/a.pl?p ... /cube/tile
Basically its a standard cube modified in ways you would not expect.
I will be drawing up some instructions soon so everyone can enjoy making this shape.
Can anyone tell me what this shape might be called?
..___ http://creativeobjectworld.com
/\___\ a free-form, text-based, browser-based,
\/___/ real-time, multi-user virtual world
/\___\ a free-form, text-based, browser-based,
\/___/ real-time, multi-user virtual world
- Ondrej.Cibulka
- Buddha
- Posts: 1055
- Joined: January 9th, 2006, 4:18 pm
- Location: Czech republic
- Contact:
Great design! Really first one? Really great work! Call it just tile. 

Ondrej Cibulka Origami, www.origamido.cz
Thankyou.
Yes really my first.. but it is a variation on a standard cube so I did not think the whole thing up out of thin air.
Some new cleaner images with draft instructions on this page:
http://www.wolispace.com/cgi-bin/a.pl?p ... /cube/tile
Doing the instructions is proving to be harder work than the model.
It would be easier to do in a computer program as there is so much repetition and its hard to hand-draw the same shape with one extra mountain fold 15 times.
It requires the page to be divided into 7 - do I give instructions on that or just let people find that out for themselves?
I think I had better read some more instructions again to get some ideas.
Also Im hoping some mathematically-minded person can name it other than the a rectangular prism or a shape that looks like a scrabble tile.
Iether way Im very please I could imagine a shape and find a way of making it.. not an accident of folding at random. I wonder if the crane was an accident of random folding?
Yes really my first.. but it is a variation on a standard cube so I did not think the whole thing up out of thin air.
Some new cleaner images with draft instructions on this page:
http://www.wolispace.com/cgi-bin/a.pl?p ... /cube/tile
Doing the instructions is proving to be harder work than the model.
It would be easier to do in a computer program as there is so much repetition and its hard to hand-draw the same shape with one extra mountain fold 15 times.
It requires the page to be divided into 7 - do I give instructions on that or just let people find that out for themselves?
I think I had better read some more instructions again to get some ideas.
Also Im hoping some mathematically-minded person can name it other than the a rectangular prism or a shape that looks like a scrabble tile.
Iether way Im very please I could imagine a shape and find a way of making it.. not an accident of folding at random. I wonder if the crane was an accident of random folding?
..___ http://creativeobjectworld.com
/\___\ a free-form, text-based, browser-based,
\/___/ real-time, multi-user virtual world
/\___\ a free-form, text-based, browser-based,
\/___/ real-time, multi-user virtual world
For all of you who have been hanging out for my first instructions for the cuboid - tile.. they are here:
http://www.wolispace.com/html/documents ... ns_001.gif
I hope you can find the time to give it a go and let me know if you have any problems following them.
Thanks.
http://www.wolispace.com/html/documents ... ns_001.gif
I hope you can find the time to give it a go and let me know if you have any problems following them.
Thanks.
..___ http://creativeobjectworld.com
/\___\ a free-form, text-based, browser-based,
\/___/ real-time, multi-user virtual world
/\___\ a free-form, text-based, browser-based,
\/___/ real-time, multi-user virtual world
Cool ! I like it !
Might be possible to use it as a modular or connect a bunch of them with hinges, kind of like Brill's Wedge Flexicube. May take just a little creative modification to borrow from his idea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HycbQ9SSlM
- Hank Simon
Might be possible to use it as a modular or connect a bunch of them with hinges, kind of like Brill's Wedge Flexicube. May take just a little creative modification to borrow from his idea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HycbQ9SSlM
- Hank Simon