When I set up this site back in May, I said that I wanted to do more writing and share more of my hobbies with the world. It’s now been 4 months since my last post, so it’s safe to say I didn’t really follow through on that.

I’m now on catch-up though, and as punishment for my lack of posting sins I’m going to share more of the Polyhedra I’ve worked on in the past few months, one for each month I didn’t post anything.

They were all designed by Tomoko Fuse and build on the original concepts I explored in July.

First up, we have a wireframe Icosahedron, which is a 20 sided shape. This model uses 30 “articulated wireframe” units, which are similar to those used for the cube I made before. These particular units would probably look better with two colour paper rather than a single colour, as this would add variety to each of the units. Some of the units are also a little loose, either due to how I’ve folded them or the relatively cheap paper being used. Overall though, this was a step up from the cube and I’m happy with how it turned out.

Next up I made a Stellated Tetrahedon. A Tetrahedron is a 3 sided pyramid, and whilst there are mathematical terms for stellation, it essentially involves adding more Polyhedra to each face of an existing Polyhedron. So in this case, our 4 faces are each “stellated” to form new Polyhedra, leading to a 12 sided shape. This example is folded using 6 “rose” units, and if I’m honest is a little underwhelming to look at. In hindsight, I should have used more than one colour for some variety.

After I’d made some initial rose units, I built on this by making increasingly complex models featuring more units and moved on to a Stellated Octahedron. As suggested by the name, an Octahedron has 8 faces, and again these are Stellated to extend each face, leading to a 24 face object made of 12 rose units. I think the increased colour variety helps with this one, that or I just like spiky things.

And finally, I made a Stellated Dodecahedron. This one was made from 30 rose units, and by stellating the 12 faces we end off with a total of 60 faces. It reminds me a little bit of a mine from a cartoon-style game. Originally when I started making this I wanted to have each of the 12 polyhedra to be identical in terms of colour, but poor planning on my part meant that didn’t quite happen. While I think it looks pretty good, if I were to do it again I’d either plan it better or limit the colour palette to 2 or 3 colours.

And that’s it! One model for each month since my last post. I hope you like them, and as always if you want to talk about them, ask questions or give me feedback, my socials are in the footer.