No gluing was required. I simply folded and inserted everything in the tabs. Simple.Do you glue the $1 bills?? If not, how to keep them together in a cube? Wow.
for another picture. Please post when you make these!
Thanks.These are interesting. It seems as if you got some 'eye' for art and perhaps, some hand to eye coordination works that helps you pass the time.
As for the origamis, I used to do it when I was a kid. It was fun and now, I'm out of practice because I haven't done it for so long.
Again, It's impressive.
Menger's Sponge is a geometric fractal that is infinite.I agree with Jolie, you certainly do have an eye for art Vamproyz! I havent ever seen any stuff like this before. I struggle making those 'fortune tellers' for kids, those ones that look like frilled neck dragon lizard heads.
Maybe there is an outlet to make money from doing stuff like this? And, err, whats a Menger's Sponge??
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It's one of those spur-of-the-moment things where I'm doing one thing and it leads to another.
That's a lot and I can imagine level 2 and above would have more than this.
It took me a few hours to make it. Of course, I was watching an anime at the same time.^ Sweet! How long did it take you to complete Level 1 of Menger's Sponge?
192 index cards??
Btw - thanks for sharing your origami experiences.
Thanks.
So I plan on making new ones using a program to print out the designs for those again plus a lot more such as the Catalan solids, some prisms, some antiprisms, the rest of the uniform polyhedra, the uniform compounds, Johnson solids and some other groups as well as tilings in two and three dimensions. Then once I have those taken care of, there are the four dimensional ones, which includes six convex regular shapes as opposed to only five such polyhedra in three dimensions and an infinite number of regular polygons in two dimensions. Then there are the higher dimensions 
with three convex regular shapes each and many nonconvex ones.
His site is a nice introduction to this topic. It is also known as UC72, or the 72nd uniform compound.
It's going to be hard because the self-intersecting faces of such polyhedra cut each other into little pieces and notches that could be as small as millimeters across even when the whole thing is around a meter across. I figured that the pieces for that one would take up around 350 pages if I printed out the most effective arrangement of parts I was able to get in the program. So, I may print out one instance of each part and use those to make duplicates that don't leave lots of empty paper.
I've had practice cutting small things with my exacto knife for another project and got a book from the library about shelves, so I could get ideas about what to design to store all of these things. It all started with another book from the library, Shapes, Space and Symmetry, which showed how a lot of those are related to each other.
The Menger's Sponge is the only thing that can be done without modifying paper in special patterns. For instance, I used index cards and playing cards. They weren't cut in any special way... just folded and connected. The smaller model I made was done using origami paper. I simply cut a regular square sheet of origami paper into 4 smaller square sheets. I didn't cut them into triangles or any unusual shape to make it easier. I just cut them into squares and then folded them as I would with any origami project.Those Menger cube models are interesting. Is there any way to make a paper Sierpinski tetrahedron?
I've made paper models of the Platonic, Archimedean and Kepler-Poinsot solids with the designs on this site back when it had much less.
It is possible to make models like those with origami, especially modular origami. The ones I did were with tabs and glue.
Those got crushed when I was away at RIT.
The some of the nonconvex snub polyhedra uniform compounds of their mirror images are each going to take a while to make. On the bottom of this page, George Hart says if someone makes a paper model of the compound of the mirror images of the great inverted retrosnub icosidodecahedron, he would buy them a beer.
From what I've read, at least two models of this exist in the world, so maybe mine could be the third one.
I tried to count up most of what is on my list of what to build and it ended up being over 500 items. I'm sure it'll go way over that, maybe over 1000. Only a few of them really need to be large to be fully detailed. Most of them can be made small and should fit into my room.
I made this recently.
Well, the more complicated the project, the more time it will take.Wow! Isn't that hard ?? For me, I have NOOOOOOOO patience to sitting and focus on that for hours and hours ?!?!
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Well, the more complicated the project, the more time it will take.
I've got a lot of patience. It helps to have something else going on to keep me occupied.
That's why I usually watch DVDs when working on these kinds of project.
Right now, I'm working on a Level 2 Menger's Sponge... using the same method as I did for...
http://www.alldeaf.com/899166-post35.html
I've been working on it for 2 days now. I will fold and prepare 40 sheets at a time, then add them to the model. I usually spend 30 minutes to 1 hour each time before waiting until later during the day/evening or tomorrow.
I will be doing some today. I'll upload pictures soon...
