How to make a 3d rectangular solid like a scrabble tile?

wolis · Post by **wolis** » May 19th, 2008, 2:11 pm

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

wolis · Post by **wolis** » May 21st, 2008, 9:49 am

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?

Ondrej.Cibulka · Post by **Ondrej.Cibulka** » May 21st, 2008, 1:12 pm

Great design! Really first one? Really great work! Call it just tile.

wolis · Post by **wolis** » May 21st, 2008, 11:36 pm

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?

wolis · Post by **wolis** » June 2nd, 2008, 1:28 pm

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.

HankSimon · Post by **HankSimon** » June 3rd, 2008, 1:31 am

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