The wind is in from the Canadian tundra and the air has gotten drier and much colder — almost like winter. And that dreadful Senator Boxer from California has engineered a shortage of pseudoephedrine. Californians! What do they know of sinuses?
I woke up the other morning and decided that the curves I’ve been thinking about [...]
Melisandean Flute
Mélisande* gets half credit on this one, for suggesting that the paper on the edges could be folded down to hold the piece together. This model has a much nicer waist to it, more suggestive of an actual glass. I suppose the next step is to work on a stem and base.
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Champagne Flute
The bold lines are cut marks.
Yes, yes — blasphemy. Okay, you don’t have to cut on the bold lines. If you wrap the fifth part, it’ll hold together just as well. Me, I just think it’s a more satisfying model if you give it a little cut, either side.
C’mon – how pure do you [...]
Photo and folding by Mélisande*
¡El Diabolo!
Ah, Mephistopheles!
–Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
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This is a section of Giovanni Maria Cassini’s globe, a very beautiful object, which you can view in great detail at David Rumsey’s map site. You can see that Cassini knew something I was just guessing at, how to find the radius of the curve of map gores. Dr. Math tried to explain it to [...]
I know that Eric has already blogged this, but this will not stop me from noting that lilzabubba (who is also known as Bekah) has made a rather more rational crease pattern for the lunoid model. And made a nice double lock on those troublesome corners — very clever, never occurred to me. lilzabubba’s Crease [...]
This was one of my first models, I think – I was about 13. It’s corrugated for extra goodness.
I had thought it one of my simpler models, but making a CP has taught me otherwise. It’s still fun.
Here’s the crease pattern.
And a Happy New Year’s to all!
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