{"id":443,"date":"2012-01-08T05:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T05:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/uncategorized\/modular-origami-truncated-cube-hexahedron-and-small-stellated-dodecahedron\/"},"modified":"2021-05-08T08:21:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T08:21:49","slug":"modular-origami-truncated-cube-hexahedron-and-small-stellated-dodecahedron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/2012\/01\/modular-origami-truncated-cube-hexahedron-and-small-stellated-dodecahedron\/","title":{"rendered":"Modular Origami &#8211; Truncated Cube Hexahedron and Small Stellated Dodecahedron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1020\" src=\"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Truncatedhexahedron.gif\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today, DBBD&#8217;s new hobby interest is modular origami. The construction of these models is a calming, repetitive task that also requires some degree of precision. I constructed the following out of white A4 paper that I had cut into squares of about 7cm x 7cm.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">TRUNCATED CUBE HEXAHEDRON<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1021\" src=\"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/6657455439_6344ff1502_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" alt=\"IMG_0785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/6657455439_6344ff1502_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/6657455439_6344ff1502_z-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1022\" src=\"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/6657458989_0bfa689390_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" alt=\"IMG_0787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/6657458989_0bfa689390_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/6657458989_0bfa689390_z-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Truncated_cube\">truncated cube <\/a> is created by truncating ends of a cube one third of the way into each edge. There is a bit of string attached to it as I was going to hang it up. (<a href=\"http:\/\/web.singnet.com.sg\/~owrigami\/modular.htm\">Assembly instructions for the modular parts for a truncated cube polyhedra can be found here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">SMALL STELLATED DODECAHEDRON<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1023\" src=\"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/6657462509_1d2078ef04_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" alt=\"IMG_0790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/6657462509_1d2078ef04_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/6657462509_1d2078ef04_z-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1024\" src=\"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/6657461601_e05aabe876_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" alt=\"IMG_0789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/6657461601_e05aabe876_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/6657461601_e05aabe876_z-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Small_stellated_dodecahedron\">small stellated dodecahedron<\/a> is basically a normal dodecahedron (12 sided polyhedra) with 5 pointy isoceles triangle bits sticking out. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.origamee.net\/diagrams\/misc\/isos.html\">Assembly instructions for the modular parts of a small stellated dodecahedron can be found here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, DBBD&#8217;s new hobby interest is modular origami. The construction of these models is a calming, repetitive task that also requires some degree of precision. I constructed the following out of white A4 paper that I had cut into squares of about 7cm x 7cm. TRUNCATED CUBE HEXAHEDRON The truncated cube is created by truncating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1032,1027],"tags":[990,989,991,988],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Truncatedhexahedron.gif","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}