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Dec 10, 2011

Math Craft admin Cory Poole provided quite a few recipes for sonobe models in his blog, and I followed one to make the pentakis dodecahedron here.I wasn't that happy with my first result because the c ...

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Dec 9, 2011

So I really like the new colour scheme.  This sonobe pentakis dodecahedron uses twelve colours; one for each face.I will write up some instructions for both the colour scheme and actually putting a pe ...

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Dec 9, 2011

Vladimir Bulatov makes sculptures of fantastic variations on polyhedra and other geometric objects. His site is full of incredible metal, glass, and wooden geometric sculptures, including a full secti ...

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Dec 9, 2011

Came across this gingerbread house while browsing the web. Looks like you bake the gingerbread in hexagons and pentagons, and then "glue" them together with icing. Very cute! ...

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Dec 8, 2011

Here's a Math Craft project that takes less than 20 minutes, has an attractive, practical result, and is at least a little mind-blowing due to folding along curves.The designer of these boxes is Phill ...

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Dec 7, 2011

I finally got around to making the pentakis dodecahedron from the instructions in Math Craft admin Cory Poole's blog post.  It's not tightened/straightened up yet because I just noticed that I have tw ...

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Dec 6, 2011

These boxes are inspired by a comment from Imaatfal Avidya on a corkboard post on Platonic polyhedra from sonobe units. Imaatfal was commenting about how the cube and octahedron are related to each ot ...

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Dec 6, 2011

Imatfaal's awesome post on Escher's tessellations on Polyhedra reminded me of some ornaments I made this summer.  I made some of Escher's square tessellations onto cubes and then reprojected them onto ...

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Dec 5, 2011

After Cory Poole posted some great Escher snowflakes, and Cerek Tunca had the great idea of using it as a base for a tetrahedron, well, I just had to give it a go. I will post a few more pictures and ...

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Dec 5, 2011

It's once again Monday, which means it's time to highlight some of the most recent community submissions posted to the Math Craft corkboard. I also thought we'd take a look at building a model that ha ...