December 22, 2006
12 Gore Globe
Gore Square (deprecated – feh, uck, ptui)
For experimental use – it’s not quite done yet.
(Oh, and if any of those fancy New York design firms are curious, we may be open origami evangelists, but we can be bought licensed.)
This is very nice! There hasn’t been much done with making origami spheres, aside from attempts using, say, hundreds of Sonobe units. This is prety durn elegant.
December 22nd, 2006 at 9:28 pmBeing no NY designer, I’m not offering money, only my deep admiration.
December 23rd, 2006 at 6:31 amI particularly like the “gothique flamboyant” style of the CP.
Mélisande*, I’d rather have your approval than New York dollars, any day. And flamboyant gothic was in my head, too.
And thanks, Tom — it’s a model that I’ve thought about, time to time, over the years. I think I may have mentioned the idea in an early Imagiro. I’m still hitting the same wall with it, though. Seems to me, if I know the angles at the top and bottom of the gore and the height of the paper, I ought to be able to calculate the radius of the curve. So far, I haven’t been able to figure this out. A little lecture from a passing mathematician would be gratefully listened to.
December 23rd, 2006 at 11:00 am[…] We’ve been folding a lot of Lunoids around the house lately, really enjoying this great model by Philip Chapman-Bell. Most definitely download the CP and give it a try, it makes an oddly appealing shape that is most hard to identify. […]
January 5th, 2007 at 2:19 amThis is fascinating. Thanks for sharing.
JMP
January 5th, 2007 at 10:26 amhttp://www.joanmichaels.paque.com
Just a stunning piece of design! It’s like something NASA would use! 🙂
January 8th, 2007 at 8:45 amThank you all – it’s a fun piece and I’m still developing the idea. And reading up on the history of geometry and trig.
In the interests of full disclosure, I will mention that while surfing around last week for something else, I happened on a picture of a model by Leong Cheng Chit. This is extremely similar in concept, so we’re resigning any pretensions to first discovery.
Leong Cheng Chit’s web address suggests that he’s in Singapore and if I ever get to the Kitty City, I know who I’m hanging with. This guy is way cool.
January 8th, 2007 at 5:07 pmIt’s really cool!
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How do you fold that piece? It’s awesome!
January 20th, 2014 at 8:22 pmHi, my name is priti from India. This is fascinating. can you sent me CP? I want to try this.
June 21st, 2021 at 8:15 amThe link is just below the photos.
June 23rd, 2021 at 8:08 am