10 Pointed Twist Star
It’s raining in New England today – the remnants of a hurricane that blew in yesterday. So, we’ll make our own sun.
This one has a high wow factor – something that comes home to me on the bus, when strangers interrupt me to ask, what is that? It’s the five pointed thing – people’s eyes are caught by the five pointed star, even when it’s obscured by another one, pointing in the opposite direction. And the frame-breaking action isn’t so bad, either.
You can do this with other polygons, too, though you may need to horse around with the pleat width some. I think I found an answer for this problem, but I’ll refrain from posting it, so that the Teeming Millions may have a whack at it.
Speaking of polygons, nowhere in the instructions does it mention that you start with a regular decagon – I like to think my readership knows me that well, that these small matters go without mention.
No? Okay, newbie – here’s how to make a decagon.
And here’s the Sequenced Crease Pattern – yes, I checked it and it will print on A4 without any issues. At least on our end.
[…] True to form, after sorting all this information out he went further and published a full sequenced crease pattern (SCP) for this design, and released it under the CC License. I am a big fan of his SCP work- it?s clear to see and understand, and is a lot more thorough than a basic CP while being easier to create than a full diagram set. And I have to give him a big hand for releasing his work under a CC license so others can freely use, share, remix, and reuse his designs. Thanks for sharing this with us, Philip! […]
September 3rd, 2006 at 9:09 pmI’m not sure wordpress is going to get the trackback on its own – Japanese seems to confuse it – so I’m going to give a shout-out to ATELIER Silver’s blog. He’s done a great job with this with a challenging paper.
November 14th, 2006 at 7:03 pmawh this is awesome. especially with the light from behind
December 21st, 2009 at 8:33 pm[…] my origami pride and joy. Philip Chapman-Bell created this tessellation and posted it on his blog The Fitful Flog. The first time I published this picture, I posted it on my other blog, which received a compliment […]
August 19th, 2011 at 10:05 amI am so stuck on #10 where you swing each flap , one by one. Is this the inside or the outside and is it the star points that are being swung over. HELP!
November 18th, 2013 at 6:38 pmHello,
Thank you for having shared this model and the sequence. I really like it much. I sometimes try to fold more than 8 points, and the next I did was with 16, because when building the octogon paper, one just needs to double the creases somehow. But it’s tight job then, so I appreciate much your model which has great precision.
Wanted to tell you: at the point “Swing each flap over, one by one.”, you would gain in clarity by developping a bit more, because you are showing a pattern with a peak, when the next picture displays an untouched zone (the middle round). What I mean is that the “Swing each flap over, one by one.” point needs somehow to indicate how you preserve that zone and how you reach it. Sorry to be peaky or whatever, just mentioning it, and I am sure that if I try I will succeed it. I will try it 🙂
You seem much versed in the spiraling, and I found by mistake a nice model, if you want to give it a try: https://palestinianmothman.substack.com/p/cupcake-star
To finish, I would like to salute your mention of license, creative commons. This seems to be rare in the origami world. Is there a copyright battle or what? On most websites we only have the basic fortune teller, and seems that people are only allowed to have their own creations. Really odd. I am new. But in any case your mentions of freedom are the first one I see after having browsed so many websites! Not to mention the really lossy habit of going youtube. All the best, Battista
January 22nd, 2024 at 4:21 pm