Sonobe Origami Polyhedra – Links
Instructions for Making Origami Polyhedra
Instructions for Making Other Origami Figures
Mathematics in Origami
Using Origami to Teach Standard Mathematics Topics
Origami as a Field of Mathematics
Applications of Mathematical Origami
History of the Sonobe Module
Instructions for Making Origami Polyhedra
- Stephan Lavavej has a nice page with photos showing how to make Sonobe modules. His web page also shows how to put the modules together to make a cube, a stellated octahedron, a stellated icosahedron, and a really neat 'Epcot ball' (geodesic dome).
- Meenakshi Mukerji has a beautiful page featuring folding instructions for lots of origami polyhedron designs. Most of her instructions are for origami cubes and Sonobe variations, but she also includes a wide range of other models.
- Helena Verrill has a wonderful origami page with instructions for making an impressive variety of polyhedra, tessellations, and quilts. She includes instructions for making a cube dissection puzzle and a colorful model of Pascal's triangle.
- PHiZZ units, invented by Tom Hull, are great for constructing a buckyball or a torus. Michal Kosmulski has experimented with using PHiZZ units to build a Klein bottle.
- Gurmeet Singh Manku created a video showing how to construct an origami model with 5 interlocking tetrahedra.
- Jeannine Mosely has a neat way of making origami cubes from business cards. These cubes are amazingly simple and can be combined to build any conglomeration of cubes imaginable. If you learn to make the basic units, you can help Jeannine with her Business Card Menger Sponge Project that will ultimately involve 66,048 business cards. Krystyna Burczyk has some pictures and mathematical facts about the Menger sponge on her origami page.
- Rona Gurkewitz, Bennett Arnstein, and Lewis Simon have written several books about origami and polyhedra. These books explain many mathematical ideas involved in the construction of polyhedra. They also show ways to make neat modular and multi-modular origami models. Books include Modular Origami Polyhedra, 3-D Geometric Origami, and Multimodular Origami Polyhedra: Archimedeans, Buckyballs and Duality.
- There are several pages that show how to weave polyhedra from strips of paper. Paula Versnick has an excellent page describing Heinz Strobl's Knotology method of making polyhedra. H. B. Meyer has a discussion of the mathematical principles involved with another method of weaving polyhedra.
- Krzysiek Tartas has an on-line gallery showing a variety of fantastic modular origami structures that he has made. His work includes PHiZZ creations and some amazing Sonobe polyhedra.
