![]() ![]() ![]() I folded it when I was in first grade, and it was almost my height and way wider than me! I was extremely proud of it, and it felt like I was building a skyscraper. The largest icosahedron was three feet tall and three feet wide, far too big to put on a chair. My parents kept some of the icosahedrons in our basement, so I wiped off some dust and took pictures of them. I probably folded around twenty of them in different sizes and colors, some of which ended up in my dad’s office, or gifts for other people. Many times, the pieces would fall apart and I would have to start over! I found it very rewarding when I finished my first icosahedron, so I began to fold many more. I could only add one module at a time, and the structure was very unstable until every single piece was in place. It took a long time to fold all thirty modules for each icosahedron, but soon I was able to fold them very quickly. The icosahedron only has twenty sides, but each module made up a third of two triangular sides that touched at their corners. In the particular design to make the icosahedron that I chose to fold, (there is more than one way of folding it) I needed to fold thirty identical modules to fit together. This is the biggest challenge of making most modular origami. ![]() In origami you cannot use glue, so in order to keep the pieces together you have to fold modules that have pockets and flaps, so that when you insert a flap into a pocket, it doesn’t fall apart. When you fold large platonic structures, it is easier to fold the same unit many times, and slide them together (this type of origami is called modular origami). I had made these out of stick and ball magnets before (and had taught all of my friends how to do it too), but I hadn’t made it out of paper. When I was six years old, I became extremely interested in folding the icosahedron, a platonic solid which has 20 triangular faces and twelve vertices. But I was only 7 :).ĭesigned by Michael Lafosse Categories Nature, Young Works (7-12 years) Lily Box I could have made the shell more 3D, and made the flippers longer and more gracefully curved. I was quite happy with my final result, but there is some room for improvement. Making the dome of the shell was quite difficult because in the origami base the shell was flat, and using creases alone you had to shape it. I chose Michael LaFosse’s sea turtle because of the beautiful curves and the 3D shell. Then I thought it would be very exciting to fold a turtle! I didn’t want to fold a basic origami turtle in a beginner’s book, but I wanted to find the most complicated, most eye-catching design. They were all named Minerva, and I gave them all numbers according to their size, or when I had got them. I made clay glow-in-the-dark turtles, I begged my parents to buy turtle necklaces, and so on. ![]() People gave me glass turtles and then glass turtle boxes where you could take off their shell (the lid) and stow pretty secret things inside. I received two other similar stuffies (though one was a baby), and I began to make ambitious 2D outlines of turtles by cutting and gluing more than 30 pieces of paper together! As a souvenir when I visited Maine, I became very excited and bought a turtle whose shell was a beautiful polished pink stone (probably found locally). I named her Minerva, though I can’t remember why, apart from hearing the name from Minerva McGonagall from the Harry Potter series. It all started when I got an enormous turtle stuffy, which was almost larger than myself at the time! It was extremely soft, and it wasn’t the type of stuffy where it flops all over the place it’s curved shape was contained, sleek, and realistic. When I was seven, my favorite animal was a turtle, and I was obsessed with turtle shaped objects. ![]()
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