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Planar modular origami mania from 2- to 9-pointed stars.

Yes, I did make the 90-unit QRSTUVWXZ Stars (top left) but it didn’t work as well as I wanted so I made XYZ Stars (centre) to complete the collection.

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Jitterbug, one of my best-known origami creations.

Geogebra file: https://www.geogebra.org/m/wsxthyaz
Origami instructions: http://foldworks.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/jitterbug.pdf

I first came across Buckminster Fuller’s Jitterbug in Amy C. Edmondson’s A Fuller Explanation (1987).

As I didn’t have dowels and four-way rubber connectors, I made several cuboctahedra that worked as Jitterbugs but were not very reversible. Some were from paper and others from drinking straws and elastic thread. This modular origami version is the most recent version.

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Here’s the other side, part- and fully-assembled. Some units don’t fit as well as the front side.

I guess the 90-unit QRSTUVWXYZ (10 nine-pointed stars) is next?

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And the 56-unit RSTUVWXYZ Stars: eight intersecting seven-pointed stars.

Modular origami folded from 5:4 rectangles cut from eight sheets of colour A4 paper.

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Here’s the other side, part- and fully-assembled.
Made from 72 sheets of 10 cm Paperchase Spectrascope memo block paper squares.

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Turns out RSTUVWXYZ Stars (72 units, nine intersecting eight-pointed stars) was easier to assemble as it the connections are more stable, as is the final result.

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Here’s the other side, part- and fully-assembled.

I have an idea for RSTUVWXYZ Stars (72 units, nine intersecting eight-pointed stars) which will take some time. Even though it has more units, it has easier geometry than STUVWXYZ Stars (56 units, eight intersecting seven-pointed stars).

Meenakshi Mukerji called these ‘unconventional polyhedra’ 😆

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A few different folds adapts the unit for TUVWXYZ Stars, a modular origami model of seven intersecting six-pointed stars.

Made from seven sheets of A4 colour paper, each cut into six 1:√3 rectangles, fold and joined without glue.

How can there be 42 units? See Meenakshi Mukerji’s guide to planar modulars at https://origamee.net/diagrams/planars (which I’ve only just found, after all these years)

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My piece for the Mnemosyne show at gallery AL859 in Porto.

The 2nd picture shows how it was exposed - as an origami cyanotype made of 30 individual pieces.

The 3rd picture shows all the developed individual images opened out.

The exhibited composition reflects how our unique experiences of the same event come together to give us a new, shared, social memory.

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Here's what a collage of all 30 units looks like.

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Four potential compositions for the 30 cyanotypes that used to be a single origami form.

Should they become a collage or... revert to form?

Let me know which one works for you.

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30 Views of a June Day - work in progress.

Cyanotype-coated watercolour paper made 30 'turtle' units for this model.

It was left outside for 24 hours. It's now going to be developed and... possibly collaged or reconstructed.

Exploring ideas about how we each have unique memories of a shared experience. Variables, in this case, include our point of view and our interactions with others.

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More origami practice. More spirals. More Tomoko Fuse designs.

This is a 'Weathered Shell', made from four square pieces of paper.

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