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.
- Jeannine Mosely found a simple way to build origami cubes from business cards. These cubes are amazingly simple and can be combined to build any conglomeration of cubes imaginable. See the Wisconsin Menger Sponge Project for slides explaining the project and showing how to build the Menger sponge.
