Origami Creations - Pentagonal Dodecahedron

As I was checking my own flickr account, I was able to scan through a modular origami expert from Germany by the name of Dirk Eisner.  He makes a lot of cool geometric modular shapes.  Look at his account here and be mesmerized.

I sent him a message and he was kind enough to respond and give me his diagram to make the Pentagonal Dodecahedron.

Great shaping and symmetry

I thoroughly enjoyed making this piece.  But the bigger challenge is yet to come ... to make the four (4) interlocking dodecahedron.  Yes, four (4) of these and interconnected.

Hope I am able to succeed in my challenge ... till the next blog ...

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Origami Creations - Cool Flowers from a Hexagon and a Pentagon

Origami designs using paper size other than the square has been increasingly used in the past 5 years or so.  For my case, I am very quite the traditionalist and have not moved on to even other geometric shapes.

There are two (2) models which have impressed me a lot with one using a hexagon (6 points) and the other one is a pentagon (5 points).

Here they are ...

Hexagonly beautiful

This is the very pretty snowflake flower (Flor de Seis Petalos) by David Martinez.  The photo above speaks for itself.   You may also try to making it using the video below:

Next one is the Sakura Star by Ali Bahmani.  A shape shifter of a model which is fun to play with.

Pentagon beauty

Below is the video link for the sakura star ...

I had a great time making this pieces and I hope you can try them too.

Enjoy!

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