Beautiful Paper Octahedron

flickr Dasssa Beautiful Paper Octahedron

Yesterday we had a crocheted dodecahedron, today an octahedron from paper.
It’s also beautiful, isn’t it? ;-)
It brings the curved box to mind (of course, because it’s devised by the same person ;-)).

 


Links:
Beautiful Paper Octahedron (octahedron)
via: comment at Sam-Taeguk Tetrahedral Unit
=> that’s the template for the paper octahedron

oschene’s flickr profile

English Wikipedia entry for ‘Octahedron’
German Wikipedia entry for ‘Oktaeder’

Here at unikatissima:
Crochet Dodecahedron
Curved Box not only for an Advent Calendar

Origami Spheres

Cecilia Cotton Origami Spheres

I found a linklist of Origami spheres linklist of Origami spheres (and, as you can see on the picture, of Origami stars, too ;-)), that I didn’t want to keep from you ;-))

 


Links:
Origami Spheres (Origami)
The original site doesn’t exist any more and is now available through webarchive:
Origami Spheres (Origami)

Instruction for the Origami shere on the picture (Five Intersecting Tetrahedra)
The assembly of the single components is shown very well in this video: Origami Five Intersecting Tetrahedra (complete assembly)
via: “Below is a video tutorial by Jonakashima:”